Juneau theater artist Frank Henry Kaash Katasse won a short play competition Sunday. The main characters in “Reeling” are two female cousins who lose the uncle who raised them.
Arts & Culture
Conservation interests fear prized yellow cedar may face extinction
In some areas, yellow cedar trees stand white and bare of needles against a background of green hemlock. The places appear skeleton-like, bare trees standing with limbs exposed.
Sweeney Todd is not just a fluff musical
Perseverance Theatre’s production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, opens Friday night.
Walking the world, smiling for peace
A man who is walking around the world is in Juneau through the weekend. Norio Sasaki is from Kyoto, Japan, and has been on the road for a while.
Adidas Offers To Help U.S. High Schools Phase Out Native American Mascots
At the White House Tribal Nations Conference on Thursday, President Obama praised the initiative and added that “a certain sports team in Washington might want to do that as well.”
WEIO athlete, mentor Big Bob Aiken dies at 62
A legend of traditional Alaska Native games has died. Big Bob Aiken, known as the ‘The World’s Largest Eskimo’ still held records for the Indian and Eskimo stick pull competitions. He believed deeply in the original purpose of the games.
Audio Postcard: Alaskans migrate to Louisiana
Last weekend, some 40 Alaskans journeyed down to Louisiana for the Blackpot music and food festival.
Southeast skin artist chosen for Native arts residency
Yup’ik artist Peter Williams of Sitka is headed to the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, under a Rasmuson Foundation-funded artist-in-residence program.
How 3D printing helps preserve and return sacred Tlingit objects
The Smithsonian is using 3D printing and scanning technology to preserve and repatriate Hoonah Indian Association items.
How researchers use traditional place names and knowledge
Using traditional knowledge to support ecological research was the focus of two presentations Saturday at the “Sharing Our Knowledge” Tlingit clan conference.