The speakers will give updates on the current status of language revitalization for all three languages, as well as what they think the future of the languages looks like.
Alaska Native Arts & Culture
His grandmother was forbidden to speak Lingít in school. Now, school is helping him reclaim it.
The class assignment was to write a letter to anyone they wanted. In Lingít. Eechdaa Dave Ketah chose his late grandmother, the person who spoke Lingít to him when he was growing up in Ketchikan. “And I was telling her that it’s hard learning the language at this point in my life, and one thing…
At the language house in Kodiak, new learners keep the Alutiiq language alive
Half of the first language speakers of Kodiak Alutiiq died between 2020 and 2022.
Tongue Unbroken podcast brings real talk about decolonization to mainstream media
X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell’s podcast is a platform for people doing language revitalization and decolonization work across North America.
Carvers across Southeast Alaska are working on totem poles that will line Juneau’s waterfront
KRBD spoke with seven Southeast carvers working on Sealaska Heritage Institute’s Totem Pole Trail project.
Metlakatla remembers carver Wayne Hewson
Friends and family remember Hewson as a mentor, a culture bearer and a fixture of life in Metlakatla.
New downtown Anchorage mural puts Alaska’s Indigenous cultures front and center
Growing up, Crystal Worl remembers looking up at the 120-foot-long mural on G Street that showed major events in Anchorage’s history. But there wasn’t anyone in the painting who looked like her.
In ‘Berry Song,’ Lingít illustrator Michaela Sheít.een Goade shares her own story
It’s the first book that Goade has both written and illustrated herself.
Tracing a lineage of Chilkat weavers in ‘A Life Painted in Yarn’
Historian Zachary Jones brings to light the life of important weaver Clara Benson.
Toddlers showcase Southeast Alaska clan regalia at Celebration
Some toddlers were shy. Others were ready for an audience.