Albert Kookesh, the Tlingit leader, Indigenous rights advocate, culture bearer, politician and basketball player, died Friday at 72. His death is reverberating across the state and his home region of Southeast Alaska.
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Former senator, longtime Alaska Native leader Albert Kookesh dies
Kookesh was a legendary figure in Southeast Alaska, starting as a star basketball player at Mount Edgecumbe High School.
Sealaska shareholders consider election reforms
At Sealaska Corporation’s upcoming annual meeting, five seats are in play on its 13-member board, and candidates are seeking support from the more than 22,000 people holding shares. But one of the biggest contests will be how elections will be carried out in the future.
Program that brings Indigenous culture into the classroom expands to more communities in Southeast Alaska
Studies show Indigenous students are more successful when they have their own culture in their classroom — but non-Native K-12 teachers often have no idea how to incorporate culture into their teaching.
New Baby Raven Reads books include story written by Juneau elementary students
In one of the new books, two animals that are complete opposites want to play with each other.
Petersburg Assembly takes up discussion about Southeast Alaska’s landless Native communities
Legislation introduced by Alaska’s congressional delegation this fall would grant over 23,000 acres each to five new urban Native corporations, in Petersburg, Wrangell, Haines, Tenakee and Ketchikan.
Sealaska Heritage Institute awarded federal grant to publish Tlingit, Haida archives for language revitalization project
Once the project is complete, the digital archive of the Dauenhauer Literary Estate will be public for everyone, not just academic researchers.
Neiman Marcus filed for bankruptcy, but lawsuit is moving ahead over ‘Ravenstail knitted coat’
Neiman Marcus is selling a so-called “Ravenstail knitted coat” on its website, which the lawsuit alleges copies a notable Alaska Native weaver’s design.
Effort to have term limits for Sealaska board fails, and other news from the 2020 annual meeting
In the race for Sealaska’s board of directors, three of the four seats up for election went to board-endorsed candidates running on a joint platform.
Alaska Native leaders offer alternatives to proposed university merger
They say the proposed University of Alaska Southeast merger scenarios will not resolve the financial challenges facing the university system.