Each year, Indigenous artisans converge for three days during the convention to sell carvings, kuspuks, fur-lined hats and all manner of jewelry.
Alaska Native Arts & Culture
Presbyterian leaders apologize, begin reparations for 1962 closure of Juneau church led by Rev. Walter Soboleff
At Monday’s event, national church leaders gave $100,000 to Sealaska Heritage Institute to support language revitalization efforts.
Tlingit and Haida, Forest Service plans to expand cultural education at Mendenhall Glacier
“The people who go there want to learn about the glacier,” President Richard Chalyee Éesh Peterson said. “They also want to learn about the people.”
Juneau’s waterfront totem poles have new signs to describe and protect them: ‘This is more than art’
Sealaska Heritage Institute put up storyboards last week to educate visitors and protect the poles from mistreatment.
Mud pies and ‘Molly of Denali’ could strengthen STEM education in rural Alaska
Researchers say experimentation in the natural world can help young children develop an interest in environmental science.
2023 Rasmuson Distinguished Artist awardee plans to weave biggest Chilkat blanket ever
Anna Brown Ehlers has woven several dozen blankets over the last 40 years, and she’s taught hundreds of students.
Áakʼw Rock Indigenous music festival starts Thursday in Juneau
Indigenous performers from across Alaska, the U.S. and the world will play over the course of three days.
Four years into the Yukon salmon collapse, an Interior Alaska village wonders if it will ever fish again
The river’s once-strong king salmon run has been on a long, slow decline since the 1990s. Chum salmon runs have also been unpredictable. But in the last four years, both species’ runs abruptly crashed.
Presbyterian Church leaders visit Juneau to plan apology for 1962 church closure
Alaska Native leaders spoke to church leaders on Wednesday about the harm religious organizations have done to Lingít communities through language suppression and violence at boarding schools.
Alaska Native youth to carve 2 dugout canoes with federal education funding boost
The goal is to teach Lingít culture while applying the principles of science, technology, engineering and math education to canoe-making.