Toward the end of each school year, Hoonah City Schools celebrates Tlingit culture with the ḵu.éex’, or potlatch. Nearly the entire community is invited to the see the youngest generation carry forward their ancestors’ traditions.
Arts & Culture
Anonymous donor gifts $110K to Fairbanks music programs
An anonymous donor has gifted $110,000 to the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District for elementary music programs.
Videos, guide teach Annette Island weaving and Sm’algya̱x
A Metlakatla-based nonprofit organization worked with the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center to develop a series of instructional videos that teach the community’s unique form of basket weaving. It comes with an accompanying bilingual guide in English and the Tsimshian language.
Juneau team brings home medal from Native Youth Olympics
Juneau athletes set new personal records and placed in one event at the Native Youth Olympics that wrapped in Anchorage. It was Juneau’s first team in almost 30 years.
After a tragedy, a Yup’ik dance group in Hooper Bay keeps dancing
The idea was to help reconnect kids to their culture, teach about the effects of alcohol and drugs, and prevent suicide. And it has worked – but not with every kid.
Coach, teacher and ally among eight honored for tribal achievements
Gil Truitt spent more than three decades teaching, coaching and leading teens at a government-run boarding high school. He’s been called a legend. Now, he’s received the highest form of recognition given by the state’s largest tribal government.