Frank Henry Kaash Katasse is an Indigenous actor and playwright who incorporates Lingít language into plays performed on Juneau’s stages and airwaves.
"Tongass Voices"
Tongass Voices: Southeast Alaska shipwreck researchers on setting the record straight
A team of researchers in Alaska have banded together to investigate a famous Alaska shipwreck. The Star of Bengal sank off the coast of Prince of Wales Island in 1908, taking more than 100 lives with it.
Tongass Voices: Gigi Monroe on watching Juneau Drag grow up
This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly perspectives from the homelands of the Áak’w Kwáan and beyond. When Gigi Monroe started Juneau Drag in 2014, the city quickly embraced the art form — a performance of exaggerated gender, with flashy costumes and, often, choreography. Its roots are in spaces that the LGBTQ+…
Tongass Voices: Wayne Price on the past — and future — of yaakw carving
Master Carver Wayne Price has been instrumental in bringing the Lingít artform back over the last forty years while training the next generation of dugout canoe carvers.
Tongass Voices: Mitch Erie on what it takes to be a firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service
There are 17 open firefighter positions in Moose Pass and Anchorage in the Chugach National Forest and in Juneau in the Tongass National Forest.
Tongass Voices: Diosdado Valdez on finding family away from home
Diosdado Valdez has been coming to Juneau for over 30 years, and in that time, he’s found another family off the ship.