Helen Dick, a Dena’ina elder, learned to make birch bark baskets from her grandmother. Now, she’s teaching others to make them, too.
Alaska Native Arts & Culture
How learning an Indigenous language leads to healing
“It has saved me in a way that it’s just filled my heart,” said Sm’algya̱x learner Nancy Barnes. “And it keeps me feeling grounded, is the best way that I could explain it. I’ve heard other language learners say the same thing.”
Indigenous artists take the mainstage at Juneau’s Rock Aak’w
Fourteen musical acts will participate in an international Indigenous music festival this weekend.
What’s that reddish color on Wrangell’s petroglyphs?
A Wrangell resident who was out on a walk on Wrangell’s Petroglyph Beach said he noticed what he thought was paint on one of the rocks with ancient carvings.
Can Indigenous subsistence rights still be protected in Alaska?
Subsistence, a practice which past generations participated in without question, has become a complex legal puzzle — “a very unsettled and unsettling [legal landscape] for Alaska Native people,” according to one lawyer who has spent decades working on subsistence cases.
Master-apprentice program aims to create new generation of Alutiiq teachers
The program includes a stipend so that language learners can focus on Alutiiq.
In her latest project, Juneau artist Lily Hope will mentor weavers and address threats to use of traditional materials
The Chilkat weaver is one of 15 people to win a $100,000 SHIFT award, which will support her project, “Protecting the Material Sovereignty of Our Indigenous Homelands.”
Juneau officials might rename this public space ‘Peratrovich Plaza’
Right now, this prominent public space is called “Archipelago Lot 2A.” Few people know the name.
A movement to celebrate Reconciliation Day in place of Alaska Day continues to gain steam in Sitka
In recent years, a movement to recognize Reconciliation Day in place of Alaska Day continues to gain steam.
With 3 bold marks, Indigenous women helped revive a once-banned tradition
Grete Bergman was among the first Gwich’in women to get traditional facial markings since colonizers barred the practice. She and markings artist Sarah Whalen-Lunn did it for their daughters.