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Jun 08 2018

Traditional Arts Apprentice & Youth Mentor Shane Brown works on the Yanyeidí totem pole at Harborview Elementary School on May 29, 2018. (Photo by Annie Bartholomew/KTOO)

Yanyeidí healing totem shares indigenous knowledge

By Annie Bartholomew | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Celebration, Juneau, Southeast

The totem pole was created for Goldbelt Heritage Foundation and Douglas Indian Association, as part of a healing process for the T’aaḵú Ḵwáan Tlingit tribe. The pole memorializes the deliberate burning of Akáx Yaa Andagán, the Douglas Indian village, in 1962 and honors the residents who lost their homes.

By Annie Bartholomew | June 8, 2018 5:55 pm

Jun 07 2018

Video: Artists display, sell their craft at Native Artist Market

By Tripp J Crouse, KTOO | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Highlights

Zach Boxley and Donna Cole talk about their artwork at the Native Artist Market as part of Celebration 2018 in Juneau.

By Tripp J Crouse, KTOO | June 7, 2018 5:20 pm

Jun 07 2018

Video: Artist Andy Everson talks about blending traditional design with ‘Star Wars’

By Tripp J Crouse, KTOO | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Highlights, Juneau, Southeast

British Columbia-based artist Andy Everson likes to use dark imagery from “Star Wars” and add traditional Native designs as a way to uplift Native people. “As a child of the 1970s, I grew up around ‘Star Wars’ and collected all…

By Tripp J Crouse, KTOO | June 7, 2018 5:04 pm

Jun 07 2018

Dorica Jackson talks about a robe she spent almost 15 years working on during a weavers' presentation Wednesday, June 6, 2018, at the Shuka Hit clan house in the Walter Soboleff Building in downtown Juneau.

Weavers share traditional knowledge, stories behind textiles

By Tripp J Crouse, KTOO | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Celebration, Juneau, Southeast

A weaving presentation displayed blankets, aprons and other items made by practicing artisans from Southeast Alaska and British Columbia. About 50 people attended the presentation Wednesday by weavers and weaving historians in the Shuka Hit clan house in the Walter Soboleff Building.

By Tripp J Crouse, KTOO | June 7, 2018 1:13 pm

Jun 06 2018

John Morris, a member of the Yanyeidí clan who once called the site home, raises his arm in triumph after helping to install the Gooch (wolf) totem pole. June 6, 2018. (Photo by Adelyn Baxter/KTOO)

Totem pole erected in Savikko Park represents long-delayed healing for descendants of Douglas Indian Village

By Adelyn Baxter, KTOO | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Celebration, History, Juneau

Members of the T’aaḵú Ḵwáan gathered Tuesday at Savikko Park in Douglas for the raising of the Yanyeidì Gooch kootéeyaa, or Wolf totem pole.

By Adelyn Baxter, KTOO | June 6, 2018 8:30 pm

Jun 06 2018

Video: Canoes land at Douglas Boat Harbor for Celebration

By Adelyn Baxter, KTOO | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Highlights, Juneau

The group of canoes have traveled from Ketchikan, Sitka, Kake, Angoon, Hoonah, Yakutat — even Canada. Clan leaders at Douglas Harbor gave permission to One People Canoe Society and its canoes to land. And then they welcomed those arriving by water at the boat ramp.

By Adelyn Baxter, KTOO | June 6, 2018 10:22 am

Jun 06 2018

Video: Heather Powell stresses the urgency of language, culture revitalization

By Tripp J Crouse, KTOO | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Highlights

“That regalia that you’re wearing, that’s our ancestors that are present,” Tlingit language teacher Heather Powell said. “So it’s a really exciting time to be able to participate in ceremony amongst each other.”

By Tripp J Crouse, KTOO | June 6, 2018 10:00 am

Jun 06 2018

Video: Lt. Gov. Mallott talks about the canoe journey, first Celebration

By Tripp J Crouse, KTOO | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Highlights

“This voyage for many has a particular focus on the revitalization of Alaska Native language and of course it’s all having to do with coming together at Celebration here in Juneau which was began by Sealaska in 1982 and which continues today held every two years,” Alaska Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott said.

By Tripp J Crouse, KTOO | June 6, 2018 9:55 am

Jun 05 2018

Video: Doug Chilton talks about the journey to Celebration

By Tripp J Crouse, KTOO | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Highlights

One People Canoe Society president Doug Chilton talks about the preparation the nine canoes made to make the journey from various communities in Southeast Alaska to Celebration 2018.

By Tripp J Crouse, KTOO | June 5, 2018 8:56 pm

Jun 05 2018

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker asks Native elders for permission to land at Douglas Harbor on June 5, 2018.

Canoes arrive and unofficially kick off Celebration 2018

By Tripp J Crouse, KTOO | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Celebration

A group of paddlers and their canoes have finished their weeklong journey to Juneau. They traveled from Ketchikan, Sitka, Kake, Angoon, Hoonah, Yakutat — even Canada for Celebration.

By Tripp J Crouse, KTOO | June 5, 2018 6:33 pm

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Yanyeidí healing totem shares indigenous knowledge

Video: Artists display, sell their craft at Native Artist Market

Video: Artist Andy Everson talks about blending traditional design with ‘Star Wars’

Weavers share traditional knowledge, stories behind textiles

Totem pole erected in Savikko Park represents long-delayed healing for descendants of Douglas Indian Village

Video: Canoes land at Douglas Boat Harbor for Celebration

Video: Heather Powell stresses the urgency of language, culture revitalization

Video: Lt. Gov. Mallott talks about the canoe journey, first Celebration

Video: Doug Chilton talks about the journey to Celebration

Canoes arrive and unofficially kick off Celebration 2018

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