A thousand people gathered at Auke Bay in Juneau on Saturday to welcome the Hōkūle‘a and her crew to Juneau. Now, the crew is preparing to embark on a four-year journey around the world.
Alaska Native Arts & Culture
Ketchikan’s tribe holds awakening and launch for X’oots kuye’ik canoe
Tribal members and Ketchikan residents gathered to awaken and launch a canoe designed by a late master carver and artist who called Ketchikan one of his homes.
Hawaiian voyaging canoe’s latest journey starts in Alaska: ‘The ocean is what connects us’
The journey that sets out from Juneau next week is called Moananuiākea, and the crew’s goal is to learn about land stewardship and unity from Indigenous communities throughout the Pacific Ocean.
Sealaska Heritage Institute proposes renaming part of Seward Street
The application would rename the part of the street between Front Street and Marine Way to Heritage Way.
Ketchikan Charter School students use theater to tell Indigenous stories
Students turned “Killer Whale Eyes” and “How Devil’s Club Came to Be” into short plays featuring handmade props and formline the students learned from an artist-in-residence.
‘Showing off who I am’: Anchorage seniors graduate in sealskin, kuspuks and other regalia
Anchorage students no longer have to wear a typical cap and gown to their high school graduation.
Ketchikan students look to the sky for Crystal Worl’s salmon formline plane
It was especially engaging for the students since they’ve been learning formline designs through the school’s artist-in-residence program.
Juneau celebrates first arrival of Crystal Worl-designed jet: ‘Just so proud of her’
The Alaska Airlines plane — its name means Salmon People in Lingít — features a giant, colorful design by Crystal Worl depicting salmon in Northwest Coast formline.
A Crystal Worl-designed Alaska Airlines plane will make its inaugural flight to Juneau on Friday
The plane is named Xáat Kwáani, or Salmon People. According to Alaska Airlines, it’s the first time they’ve featured a language besides English on the main door of an aircraft.
Gwich’in author Matt Gilbert aims for the universe and beyond
The series is called Chandera. It’s set 300 years in the future, and its protagonist is Maxwell Wilkes, a Gwich’in Athabaskan.