November is Native American Heritage Month, and people across the world are celebrating on social media with an online event called Rock Your Mocs.
Alaska Native Arts & Culture
Community remembers Native leader for 2nd annual Dr. Walter Soboleff Day
“He took the power of values, the power of kindness and the power of caring to improve people’s lives,” said Sealaska CEO Anthony Mallott.
Language matters: The alleged disappearance of Áak’w Kwáan, T’aaku Kwáan
A state researcher challenges persistent narrative and modern language implying that local Tlingits were assimilated or simply vanished.
Tlingit language and culture program begins Saturday at youth center
The program is free, but limited to 15 participants age 8 and older. It’s geared toward families, and elementary and middle school students.
Tlingit leader Robert ‘Bob’ Loescher dies at 68
Bob Loescher was Sealaska’s CEO from 1997 to 2001. He headed up the Tlingit-Haida Central Council’s housing and electrical authorities and was a subsistence-rights activist.
Juneau artist Crystal Worl honored at VP Biden’s house
“It was unreal. I remember standing in front of my print while people were approaching and talking to me, and I was just kind of like outside of my body watching myself, like, ‘Is this really happening?’”
Preview of new Alaska Native exhibits at SLAM
Curators promise broad, honest representations of Alaska Native history and culture in new Juneau museum.
Tlingit playwright wins short play competition
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.
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.
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.”