“Prevention to us is shooting a moose and bringing it home and giving it to the whole community,” says Ishmael Andrew.
Arts & Culture
Ernestine Hayes releases a new book about Juneau
This Friday at Hearthside Books, Juneau writer and UAS assistant professor of English, Ernestine Hayes, will release her book “Juneau” from Arcadia Publishing.
Sealaska Heritage Institute plans art auction fundraiser for Soboleff Center
Sealaska Heritage still needs to raise less than $2.5 million of the $20 million project cost. The facility will be complete in January 2015.
Native leader appears in court on theft charge
A former Sealaska corporation executive accused of taking money from a subsistence fund is scheduled to appear in court again in January. A ‘not guilty’ plea was entered on behalf of Robert ‘Bob’ Loescher, 66, in Juneau District Court on Thursday. Loescher, who appeared in court in a wheelchair, agreed to a temporary waiver of…
Cookies and treats, Christmas decor at Governor’s House
Open house is 3 to 6 p.m. on December 10th
Participants voice hopes and realities at domestic violence Prevention Summit
“There are a lot of people who are working to try to stop this domestic violence and sexual assault epidemic,” says Greg Marxmiller, who runs Myspace in Dillingham.
Library bookmark contest winners honored by Juneau Assembly
The Juneau Public Library system received more than 1,300 entries for this year’s contest.
Learning Tlingit culture through action figures
While many were still shopping Friday, a workshop for kids to make Tlingit-themed action figures was overbooked at the Alaska State Museum.
How to save an endangered language
“Once people are learning it at home and using it, then you feel like you’re beginning to be out of danger for the language,” says author Leanne Hinton.
Putting the “state” in Alaska State Museum
The Alaska State Museum in Juneau is getting a lot of help from other Alaska museums ahead of its move to a new facility in 2016.