South Seward Street runs from Front Street to Marine Way, between the Sealaska Heritage Institute building, Heritage Square and the Sealaska Corporation headquarters.
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June 9, 2023: Latseen Káx̱ Yéi Atdaané – Gathering for Strength Sealaska Heritage Institute’s 7th Culturally Responsive Education Conference
Sealaska Heritage’s Latseen Káx̱ Yéi Atdaané plus Underground Connection presents Uncharted: Symphonic Folk and Juneau Artist Gallery featured artist Jayne Andreen
Sealaska Heritage Institute proposes renaming part of Seward Street
The application would rename the part of the street between Front Street and Marine Way to Heritage Way.
Ketchikan Charter School students use theater to tell Indigenous stories
Students turned “Killer Whale Eyes” and “How Devil’s Club Came to Be” into short plays featuring handmade props and formline the students learned from an artist-in-residence.
A dozen new totem poles will be dedicated in Juneau on Saturday
One of those poles, carved by Gyibaawm Laxha David Robert Boxley, represents the Tsimshian people.
Lingít culture bearers plan Indigenous performing arts workshop in Juneau
A new Sealaska Heritage Institute program beginning in March hopes to help train more Indigenous actors and performing artists in the Lingít language.
Sealaska Heritage Institute has a new building dedicated to Indigenous approaches to teaching science
“We’re hoping that our programming can bridge some of the standing gaps of where Indigenous science has been left out in those subjects and build some interest and pathways for our Alaska Native youth.”
Chilkat weavers who learned online during the pandemic see their robes come to life
“Over the last 120 years, fewer than a dozen Chilkat blanket makers or robe weavers existed at any given point,” says Lily Hope. “We are changing that story this week.”
Tribal groups call for halt to logging at ‘sacred and culturally historic’ site near Yakutat
Yakutat elder Victoria Demmert says her ancestors harvested salmon at Humpback Creek for hundreds of years.
On Walter Soboleff Day, panel reflects on church’s closure and the path forward
Soboleff, who lived to be 102, was a longtime advocate for Lingít people through his ministries and work to support Juneau’s youth.