“We must take care of our children and we must make that a moral and cultural imperative,” said Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott.
"A Conference of Tlingit Tribes and Clans"
How to save an endangered language
“Once people are learning it at home and using it, then you feel like you’re beginning to be out of danger for the language,” says author Leanne Hinton.
Tlingit ventriloquism, a way to keep the language alive
Carlton Smith got into ventriloquism fifty years ago as a ten-year-old boy living in Haines. When Smith was bedridden with hepatitis for four months, his father bought him his first puppet from a Sears-Roebuck catalog – a red-headed figure wearing a green suit named Jerry.