"clan conference"

A state researcher challenges persistent narrative and modern language implying that local Tlingits were assimilated or simply vanished.

First Lady Donna Walker was given the Tlingit name, Koodeishghé, which was approved by Deisheetaan clan elder Selina Everson.

“We must take care of our children and we must make that a moral and cultural imperative,” said Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott.