Big changes are on the horizon for a once small optional Tlingit language and culture program offered by the Juneau School District and Sealaska Heritage Institute. Each year for more than 20 years, ...

A three-year language mentorship program beginning in Southeast Alaska in August hopes to help revitalize the Tlingit language, classified as on the edge of extinction, by pairing fluent elders with ...

JUNEAU, Alaska - Tlingit speakers and educators are fighting to keep that language alive. As those at Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) put it, creating new speakers will be key in accomplishing this.

As 79-year-old Kèyishí Bessie Cooley presented her master's degree thesis project at the Yukon Native Language Centre in Whitehorse—interweaving English and Tlingit as she spoke—it marked another ...

X’unei Lance Twitchell teaches an advanced Tlingít course at University of Alaska Southeast on April 29, 2024. (Photo by Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon) Before Monday evening’s advanced Tlingít ...

SITKA, Alaska - "The Story of the Town Bear and Forest Bear" will be recognizable to anyone who has read the classic tale about a pair of similarly diverse mice. But not many will be able to read it - ...

What does it mean to lose your land, your language, and your heritage? For Alaska Natives, these are existential threats. On a trip to Southeast Alaska, I traveled to one village that is finding new ...

Introduction / Sergei Kan -- Part 1. Our Elders and Teachers. 1. Shotridge in Philadelphia : representing Native Alaskan peoples to East Coast audiences / Robert W. Preucel ; 2. Louis Shotridge : ...

Arias Hoyle and a videographer out of Anchorage traveled across Kachemak Bay in September 2022 to capture videos of K-12 students in the small community of Nanwalek. (Courtesy Arias Hoyle) ...

Vol. 1. 1st plenary session -- Vol. 2. 2nd plenary session -- Vol. 3. The reincarnation of stories -- Vol. 4. Retelling our stories: using writing as resistance to inaccurate historical perspectives - ...