“She had a great big heart for everybody,” said Marcelo Quinto. Lund was a board member of Sealaska, a former executive vice president of the Tlingit and Haida Tribes of Alaska and helped found SEARHC. She died earlier this month at 91.
Lund grew up in Wrangell, the daughter of a Lingít mother from a prominent family and a Swedish fisherman father.
“She had a great big heart for everybody,” said Marcelo Quinto, who first met Lund at a joint convention of the Alaska Native Sisterhood and Brotherhood. Quinto is 81, and most recently served with Lund on the Healing Hand Foundation board. He said they often shared stories about the difficulties of getting medical care when they were growing up.Ethel Lund receives the Della Keats Healing Hands Award at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention in Anchorage on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. The award goes to people who have played a role in bringing health care to indigenous communities.
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