Juneau’s Got Talent; Chilkat weaving at the City Museum; Alaska Native Sisterhood and City Museum host event for Elizabeth Peratrovich Day; fiber art at Kindred Post and more this First Friday
"Alaska Native Sisterhood"
Ethel Lund remembered as a health care trailblazer for Southeast Alaska Natives
The Alaska Native Sisterhood honored Ethel Aanwoogeex’ Lund as a champion for Native health care at a memorial service in Juneau on Friday.
Alaska Quakers apologize for Douglas Island Friends Mission School
The apology said the Religious Society of Friends ran around 30 schools for Native youth in the U.S., with the intention of forcing Indigenous children to assimilate into white society.
Orange Shirt Day in Juneau offers listening and learning for people of all ages
Jessica Kinville-James said it’s important that their kids have the connections to their culture that were severed in the boarding school era.
Civil rights icon Elizabeth Peratrovich honored in Sitka with new cedar bench
The plan is to install the bench in front of Harrigan Centennial Hall, where Sitka’s statue of Alexander Baranov once stood.
Sitka looks to rename Baranof Elementary School after Native educator
The Sitka School Board recently decided to send the question of the name change to the Sitka Tribe, in hopes of identifying a “significant local cultural educator.”
Sitka’s Baranov statue will come down, but it’s not going far
For more than 30 years, a bronze statue of Russian colonial administrator Alexander Baranov has stood in front of one of Sitka’s most prominent government buildings. But not for much longer.
Sitkans gather to demand the relocation of controversial Baranov Statue
Over the years, people have damaged the statue. The current group of protesters is asking the city to relocate it to a less prominent spot and replace it with a more inclusive monument.
Coin commemorating Alaska Native civil rights leader Elizabeth Peratrovich released
The 2020 Native American $1 coin is currently only available online, but Alaskans are advocating for a wider release.
Alaska Native groups ask Dunleavy to investigate missing and murdered Indigenous women
A dozen Alaska Native groups cosigned a letter asking Dunleavy to include money in his proposal for the next state budget, which his administration is scheduled to release on Dec. 15.