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This project successfully raised its funding goal on November 11, 2011.
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A special credit as a "Defender" in the program of the Perseverance Theatre production
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The Traditional Tlingit Country Map, compiled by Andrew Hope III
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A free ticket to a Perseverance Theatre show AND A copy of Ishmael Hope's comic book, "Strong Man"
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A free ticket to a Perseverance Theatre show AND A bound hard copy of Peter Metcalfe's history of the Alaska Native Brotherhood, "The Sword and the Shield"
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Ishmael Hope (alaskanativestoryteller.com) is the son of the late Elizabeth Freda Hope from the Goodwin family in Kotzebue, and the late Andy Hope III from Sitka, a Tlingit of the S’iknaxh.ádi clan. His Iñupiaq name is Angalook. His Tlingit name is Khaagwáask’. He is of the Kiks.ádi clan, of the X'aaká Hít, the Point House in Sitka.
He has over a dozen years experience as a professional storyteller, performing throughout Alaska and the United States. He is an actor and playwright with Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska, where he also worked as Director of Outreach. He developed and curated the annual festival Beyond Heritage: A Celebration of Contemporary and Traditional Alaska Native Culture, which ran from 2001-2008. He wrote and performed his play, Gunakadéit, at the Smithsonian Museum for the American Indian in November 2006. He is a board member of the Before Columbus Foundation. Ishmael wrote a comic book, Strongman, interweaving a traditional Tlingit story with a contemporary young man’s life. He recently wrote and performed The Reincarnation of Stories with Generator Theater and Perseverance Theatre. He will publish his first book of poems, Courtesans of Flounder Hill, with Ishmael Reed Publications.
Ishmael lives in Juneau, Alaska with wife Lily Hudson Hope, and their three-year old daughter Elizabeth Deanna Hope.
