The Elders and Youth Conference is underway in Anchorage this week, back to what it used to be – a time for both young and old to make a personal connection through their love of Alaska Native culture.
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Tribe to hold virtual Dena’ina workshop for early language learners
The series is part of a mosaic of language revitalization work from the Kenaitze Indian Tribe. The tribe recently launched a virtual Dena’ina Audio Dictionary and is continuing to offer language courses for adults and language lessons for kids.
Lingít hip-hop artist features Nanwalek youth in new music video
Juneau-based Arias Hoyle, known by his stage name Air Jazz, said he hopes his song “You’re The North Star” acknowledges and inspires the youth of small villages.
UAS will host language panel on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
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.
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.