This year, athletes broke 13 records in different categories.
Alaska Native Arts & Culture
Tongass Voices: Shiggoap Alfie Price on the challenges and rewards of learning endangered languages
Shiggoap Alfie Price is a language learner and teacher who believes in using the power of community to strengthen the language revitalization movement.
Juneau Native Youth Olympics athletes tour Lower 48 to promote Arctic sports
They demonstrated games like the One-Foot and Two-Foot High Kick, the Alaskan High Kick, Scissor Broad Jump, Seal Hop, and the Inuit and Dene Stick Pulls.
In its 75th year, Juneau’s Gold Medal Basketball Tournament transcends the court
Throughout this week, more than 500 people from across Southeast Alaska will attend to watch nearly 50 games.
‘Now she’s going to teach us’: Southeast Alaska Native leaders welcome historic Chilkat robe home
The robe is more than 150 years old. This is the first time it’s been used in a ceremony for at least six decades.
Weavers will study ‘secrets in the weavings’ of historic Chilkat robe returned to Southeast Alaska
The robe is now in Sealaska Heritage Institute’s archives and collections department. Next month, weavers will start learning from it.
Juneau’s first Elizabeth Peratrovich basketball tournament aims to inspire girls in sports
Thunder Mountain’s head coach says the tournament showcases the deep pool of talented female athletes in Alaska.
Sealaska Heritage Institute seeks art for this year’s Celebration
Artists have until Jan. 12 to pitch design concepts for “Together we live in balance.”
Sealaska Heritage Institute releases new apps for learning endangered Indigenous languages
It’s SHI’s first attempt at putting X̱aad Kíl, the Haida language, and Shm’algyack, the Tsimshian language, in app form.
Attu’s last survivor remembered for his leadership and forgiveness
Gregory Golodoff, the last surviving resident of Attu taken prisoner by the Japanese in 1942, had empathy for his captors before his death last month.