Big changes are on the horizon for a once small optional Tlingit language and culture program offered by the Juneau School District and Sealaska Heritage Institute. Each year for more than 20 years, ...

A three-year language mentorship program beginning in Southeast Alaska in August hopes to help revitalize the Tlingit language, classified as on the edge of extinction, by pairing fluent elders with ...

Vol. 1. 1st plenary session -- Vol. 2. 2nd plenary session -- Vol. 3. The reincarnation of stories -- Vol. 4. Retelling our stories: using writing as resistance to inaccurate historical perspectives - ...

JUNEAU, Alaska - Tlingit speakers and educators are fighting to keep that language alive. As those at Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) put it, creating new speakers will be key in accomplishing this.

On March 21, 2025, after an 18-month journey, about 400 people gathered at Sheet’ká Kwáan Naa Kahídi — the community tribal house in Sitka — and watched Tlingit singers and dancers perform followed ...

Introduction / Sergei Kan -- Part 1. Our Elders and Teachers. 1. Shotridge in Philadelphia : representing Native Alaskan peoples to East Coast audiences / Robert W. Preucel ; 2. Louis Shotridge : ...

What does it mean to lose your land, your language, and your heritage? For Alaska Natives, these are existential threats. On a trip to Southeast Alaska, I traveled to one village that is finding new ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — Nora Marks Dauenhauer was honored with a reception at the Juneau Arts & Culture Center earlier this month in recognition of her recent appointment as Alaska's newest Writer Laureate.

The battle was a pivotal moment in Tlingit history — and in Russia's colonization of the Americas. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

Photo caption: In this screen grab from the first stave of "A Tlingit Christmas Carol," the productions cast and crew is largely Indigenous, including (from left) Erin Tripp (Tlingit), playing Roberta ...