Speaker after speaker at last week’s convention referenced the storm.
Alaska Native Arts & Culture
Catastrophic Western Alaska storm sets the tone for AFN week
Indigenous organizations and local leaders were focusing on the destruction from the recent storm before the start of the convention.
New Indigenous science building uses technology to study and revive old ways
The building on Heritage Way hosts a digital media lab with a podcast booth and video production software, an Indigenous science research lab and a makerspace with a digital woodcarving machine.
Sealaska Heritage Institute adds another totem pole to its Kootéeyaa Deiyí
The pole – called a kooteeyaa in Lingít – was funded by the National Parks Service. It was raised near Juneau’s Overstreet Park, but organizers held the dedication inside due to weather.
Tongass Voices: Ldaan.aat Laurie Cropley and Yuxgitsiy George Holly on making space for tribal values
Lingít elder Ldaan.aat Laurie Cropley and elder-in-training Yuxgitsiy George Holly are leading dawn prayers at the annual Elders and Youth conference in Anchorage next week.
Juneau descendants of boarding school survivors sing to remember what wasn’t lost on Orange Shirt Day
Orange Shirt Day recognizes the Indigenous children who were separated from their language, families and culture and sent to residential schools across North America from the late 1800s well into the 20th Century.