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 ...

X’unei Lance Twitchell teaches an advanced Tlingít course at University of Alaska Southeast on April 29, 2024. (Photo by Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon) Before Monday evening’s advanced Tlingít ...

Hometown: I am Tlingit Indian from Southeast Alaska. I belong to the Dakl'aweidi Clan (killer whale). I was born and raised in Juneau, AK. The Tlingit art form goes back 10,000 years in Alaska, our ...

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 - ...

The stamp, designed by Tlingit and Athabascan artist Rico Lanáat’ Worl, features the raven as a trickster-spirit within a field of gold stars, holding the sun in his beak. Worl's forever stamp is ...

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 : ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Alaska has become the second state, after Hawaii, to recognize indigenous languages as official state ...

Before Monday evening’s advanced Tlingít language class, Raven Svenson and her classmate discussed how to conjugate the verb “boil” in the context of cooking. The University of Alaska Southeast class ...