The course marks a big step toward Unangax̂ language revitalization.
Arts & Culture
Haines Sheldon Museum to open Lingít miniature exhibit
The exhibit will showcase stories of the known carvers and provide the public an opportunity to learn more about Lingít people of the early 1900s.
Junior Native Youth Olympics bring Alaskan kids together: ‘You’re all on the same team’
This year’s Junior Native Youth Olympic Games are virtual, with nearly 300 participants sending in videos of themselves competing in the events.
Haida artist TJ Young is carving a new totem pole that will go up in downtown Juneau
Most totem poles are carved on one side, but this one is carved on both. They’re calling it a 3-D totem pole, and it’s a lot more work.
Art and music therapy seem to help with brain disorders. Scientists want to know why
Treatments ranging from music to poetry to visual arts still have not undergone rigorous scientific testing. Artists and brain scientists have launched an initiative called the NeuroArts Blueprint to change that.
Lifting up Lingít at the Séet Ká Festival in Petersburg
Petersburg’s Indigenous name is Séet Ká Kwáan. It means people of the fast moving waters, referring to the Wrangell Narrows in front of town.
Alaska avalanche survivor and essayist spent years digging out of PTSD
An Alaska-based writer and photographer who survived an avalanche near Eagle River nearly 40 years ago — a bone-crushing event that killed his best friend and climbing partner — has won Outside Magazine’s inaugural survival stories essay contest.
‘Black in Alaska’ profiles lives and successes of Black Alaskans
A new multimedia project aims to improve how Black Alaskans are represented in the media and increase their visibility.
Fisher poet publishes memoir about his years in Cook Inlet
Patrick Dixon wrote his first fishing poem when he was stranded on land after the Exxon-Valdez oil spill of 1989.
Juneau-based Yup’ik artist Qacung Blanchett receives two big national awards
Bethel-raised musician Qacung Stephen Blanchett was recently named a 2022 United States Artists Fellow, as well as one of the Kennedy Center’s 50 for the Next 50.