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 : ...
Lingít activist Wanda Culp. (Photo by Melissa Lyttle, courtesy of Southeast Alaska Conservation Council) It has been 21 years since the 2001 Roadless Rule for the Tongass National Forest was first ...
The first Tlingit opera is in production. It's about the Tlingit-Russian wars in Southeast Alaska at the start of the 19th century, and while it's still in the early development stage, its creators ...
Authors Richard and Nora Dauenhauer of Juneau have won the 2008 American Book Award for "Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká: Russians in Tlingit America -- The Battles of Sitka 1802 and 1804," published by ...
Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a lecture on the 1869 bombardment of Ḵaachx̱haan.áak’w in honor of Native American Heritage Month. Presented by Zachary Jones, Ph.D., the lecture will ...
Correction: An earlier version of this article didn’t include Rosita Worl’s first name when she was referenced. The article has been updated to reflect this. On a drive from the Mendenhall Valley to ...
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 ...
A fish doesn’t jump in Tlingit, the native language of indigenous people of Southeast Alaska. It performs a feat no word in English can adequately express. The verb in Tlingit captures the instant ...
Growing up in Juneau, Alaska, Tlingit artist James Johnson uses his art as a means to connect with his cultural heritage, while combating the effects of colonization. As a self-taught artist, he is ...
Oct. 27—ANGOON — On a cold and cloudy Friday afternoon, Tlingit clan leaders stood ready to welcome guests to Angoon. For millennia, the Tlingit have lived on Admiralty Island, or Xootsnoowú, the ...
The American Museum of Natural History’s newest “revitalized” hall—the Northwest Coast Hall, which reopened in 2022 after five years and $19 million spent—includes a case with a warning label: CAUTION ...
In the late 1990s, Megan Smetzer was an art history graduate student at Williams College in Massachusetts who hadn’t yet settled on a topic for her thesis. Having grown up in Fairbanks, she was ...