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189 } 190 191 .sfm-vertical-nav .sfm-submenu-visible > a .sfm-sm-indicator i:after { 192 -webkit-transform: rotate(180deg); 193 transform: rotate(180deg); 194 } 195 196 #sfm-mob-navbar .sfm-navicon-button:after { 197 /*width: 30px;*/ 198 } 199 200 .sfm-pos-right .sfm-vertical-nav .sfm-has-child-menu > a:before { 201 display: none; 202 } 203 204 #sfm-sidebar.sfm-vertical-nav .sfm-menu .sfm-sm-indicator { 205 /*background: rgba(255,255,255,0.085);*/ 206 } 207 208 .sfm-pos-right #sfm-sidebar.sfm-vertical-nav .sfm-menu li a { 209 /*padding-left: 10px !important;*/ 210 } 211 212 .sfm-pos-right #sfm-sidebar.sfm-vertical-nav .sfm-sm-indicator { 213 left: auto; 214 right: 0; 215 } 216 217 #sfm-sidebar.sfm-compact .sfm-nav { 218 min-height: 50vh; 219 height: auto; 220 max-height: none; 221 margin-top: 30px; 222 } 223 224 #sfm-sidebar.sfm-compact input[type=search] { 225 font-size: 16px; 226 } 227 /*}*/ 228 229 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-sidebar-bg, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-social { 230 background-color: #0a0a0a !important; 231 } 232 233 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-logo img { 234 max-height: 300px; 235 } 236 237 238 #sfm-sidebar, .sfm-sidebar-bg, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-nav, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-widget, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-logo, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-social, .sfm-style-toolbar .sfm-copy { 239 width: 350px; 240 } 241 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li > a span { 242 vertical-align: baseline; 243 } 244 #sfm-sidebar:not(.sfm-iconbar) .sfm-menu li > a span{ 245 max-width: calc(350px - 80px); } 246 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-social { 247 background-color: transparent !important; 248 } 249 250 .sfm-sidebar-bg { 251 background-image: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/sealaska-heritage-institute-juneau-alaska-1.jpg); 252 background-repeat: no-repeat; 253 -webkit-background-size: cover; 254 background-size: cover; 255 background-position: 0 0; 256 } 257 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-social { 258 background-color: transparent !important; 259 } 260 261 262 263 264 265 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li:hover > a span, 266 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li > a:focus span, 267 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li:hover > a img, 268 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li > a:focus img, 269 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li:hover > a .la_icon, 270 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li > a:focus .la_icon, 271 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li.sfm-submenu-visible > a img, 272 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li.sfm-submenu-visible > a .la_icon, 273 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li.sfm-submenu-visible > a span { 274 right: -2px; 275 left: auto; 276 } 277 278 .sfm-pos-right .sfm-sub-flyout #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li > a:focus span, 279 .sfm-pos-right .sfm-sub-flyout #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li:hover > a span, 280 .sfm-pos-right .sfm-sub-flyout #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li:hover > a img, 281 .sfm-pos-right .sfm-sub-flyout #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li > a:focus img, 282 .sfm-pos-right .sfm-sub-flyout #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li.sfm-submenu-visible > a img, 283 .sfm-pos-right .sfm-sub-flyout #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li.sfm-submenu-visible > a span { 284 right: 2px; 285 left: auto; 286 } 287 288 #sfm-sidebar:after { 289 display: none !important; 290 } 291 292 293 294 295 #sfm-sidebar, 296 .sfm-pos-right .sfm-sidebar-slide.sfm-body-pushed #sfm-mob-navbar { 297 -webkit-transform: translate3d(-350px,0,0); 298 transform: translate3d(-350px,0,0); 299 } 300 301 302 .sfm-pos-right #sfm-sidebar, .sfm-sidebar-slide.sfm-body-pushed #sfm-mob-navbar { 303 -webkit-transform: translate3d(350px,0,0); 304 transform: translate3d(350px,0,0); 305 } 306 307 308 309 .sfm-pos-left #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-1 { 310 left: 350px; 311 width: 280px; 312 -webkit-transform: translate3d(-280px,0,0); 313 transform: translate3d(-280px,0,0); 314 } 315 316 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-1 .sfm-menu { 317 width: 280px; 318 } 319 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-2 .sfm-menu { 320 width: 280px; 321 } 322 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-3 .sfm-menu { 323 width: 200px; 324 } 325 326 .sfm-pos-right #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-1 { 327 left: auto; 328 right: 350px; 329 width: 280px; 330 -webkit-transform: translate3d(280px,0,0); 331 transform: translate3d(280px,0,0); 332 } 333 334 .sfm-pos-left #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-2 { 335 left: 630px; 336 width: 280px; 337 -webkit-transform: translate3d(-910px,0,0); 338 transform: translate3d(-910px,0,0); 339 } 340 341 .sfm-pos-right #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-2 342 { 343 left: auto; 344 right: 630px; 345 width: 280px; 346 -webkit-transform: translate3d(910px,0,0); 347 transform: translate3d(910px,0,0); 348 } 349 350 .sfm-pos-left #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-3 { 351 left: 910px; 352 width: 200px; 353 -webkit-transform: translate3d(-1110px,0,0); 354 transform: translate3d(-1110px,0,0); 355 } 356 357 .sfm-pos-right #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-3 { 358 left: auto; 359 right: 910px; 360 width: 200px; 361 -webkit-transform: translate3d(910px,0,0); 362 transform: translate3d(910px,0,0); 363 } 364 365 .sfm-view-pushed-1 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-2 { 366 -webkit-transform: translate3d(-280px,0,0); 367 transform: translate3d(-280px,0,0); 368 } 369 370 .sfm-pos-right .sfm-view-pushed-1 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-2 { 371 -webkit-transform: translate3d(280px,0,0); 372 transform: translate3d(280px,0,0); 373 } 374 375 .sfm-view-pushed-2 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-3 { 376 -webkit-transform: translate3d(-200px,0,0); 377 transform: translate3d(-200px,0,0); 378 } 379 380 .sfm-pos-right .sfm-view-pushed-2 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-3 { 381 -webkit-transform: translate3d(200px,0,0); 382 transform: translate3d(200px,0,0); 383 } 384 385 .sfm-sub-swipe #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-1, 386 .sfm-sub-swipe #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-2, 387 .sfm-sub-swipe #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-3, 388 .sfm-sub-swipe #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom, 389 .sfm-sub-dropdown #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom { 390 left: 350px; 391 width: 350px; 392 } 393 394 .sfm-sub-dropdown #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom { 395 width: 350px !important; 396 } 397 398 .sfm-sub-swipe #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom, 399 .sfm-sub-swipe #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom .sfm-custom-content, 400 .sfm-sub-swipe #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom .sfm-content-wrapper { 401 width: 280px !important; 402 } 403 404 .sfm-sub-swipe #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu { 405 width: 350px; 406 } 407 408 .sfm-sub-swipe.sfm-view-pushed-1 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-1, 409 .sfm-sub-swipe.sfm-view-pushed-2 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-2, 410 .sfm-sub-swipe.sfm-view-pushed-3 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-3, 411 .sfm-sub-dropdown.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom, 412 .sfm-sub-swipe.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom { 413 -webkit-transform: translate3d(-350px,0,0) !important; 414 transform: translate3d(-350px,0,0) !important; 415 } 416 417 .sfm-sub-swipe.sfm-view-pushed-1 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-scroll-main, 418 .sfm-sub-swipe.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-scroll-main, 419 .sfm-sub-dropdown.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-scroll-main { 420 -webkit-transform: translate3d(-100%,0,0) !important; 421 transform: translate3d(-100%,0,0) !important; 422 } 423 424 .sfm-sub-swipe.sfm-view-pushed-2 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-1, 425 .sfm-sub-swipe.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-1, 426 .sfm-sub-swipe.sfm-view-pushed-3 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-2, 427 .sfm-sub-swipe.sfm-view-pushed-custom.sfm-view-pushed-2 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-2 { 428 -webkit-transform: translate3d(-200%,0,0) !important; 429 transform: translate3d(-200%,0,0) !important; 430 } 431 432 /* custom content */ 433 434 .sfm-pos-left .sfm-view-pushed-1.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom { 435 right: -280px; 436 } 437 .sfm-pos-left .sfm-view-pushed-2.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom { 438 right: -560px; 439 } 440 .sfm-pos-left .sfm-view-pushed-3.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom { 441 right: -760px; 442 } 443 444 .sfm-sub-swipe.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom, 445 .sfm-sub-dropdown.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom { 446 right: 0; 447 } 448 .sfm-pos-right .sfm-view-pushed-1.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar.sfm-sub-flyout .sfm-view-level-custom { 449 left: -280px; 450 } 451 .sfm-pos-right .sfm-view-pushed-2.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar.sfm-sub-flyout .sfm-view-level-custom { 452 left: -560px; 453 } 454 .sfm-pos-right .sfm-view-pushed-3.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar.sfm-sub-flyout .sfm-view-level-custom { 455 left: -760px; 456 } 457 458 .sfm-pos-left .sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom { 459 transform: translate3d(100%,0,0); 460 } 461 .sfm-pos-right .sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom { 462 transform: translate3d(-100%,0,0); 463 } 464 465 466 #sfm-sidebar { 467 /*z-index: 1;*/ 468 } 469 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-sidebar-bg, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-social { 470 background-color: transparent !important; 471 } 472 /*#sfm-sidebar .sfm-sidebar-bg, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-scroll-wrapper { 473 opacity: 0 !important; 474 } 475 #sfm-sidebar.sfm-video-bg .sfm-sidebar-bg, #sfm-sidebar.sfm-sidebar-exposed .sfm-scroll-wrapper { 476 opacity: 1 !important; 477 }*/ 478 479 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-social { 480 background-color: transparent !important; 481 } 482 483 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-widget, 484 .sfm-menu li a{ 485 text-align: left !important; 486 } 487 488 .sfm-nav form, .sfm-menu li img, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-chapter, .sfm-menu li br,#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li:after { 489 display: none !important; 490 } 491 492 #sfm-sidebar.sfm-sidebar-exposed, .sfm-sidebar-bg, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-nav, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-logo, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-social, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-widget { 493 width: 100%; 494 } 495 .sfm-rollback { 496 /*z-index: 3000002;*/ 497 } 498 .sfm-sidebar-close:before, .sfm-sidebar-close:after { 499 background-color: #D92A2F; 500 } 501 502 #sfm-sidebar { 503 opacity: 0 !important; 504 visibility: hidden; 505 width: 100% !important; 506 } 507 508 .sfm-body-pushed #sfm-sidebar, .sfm-ui-shown #sfm-sidebar { 509 opacity: 1 !important; 510 visibility: visible; 511 } 512 513 .sfm-pos-left .sfm-rollback { 514 left: 0; 515 right: auto; 516 } 517 518 .sfm-pos-right .sfm-rollback { 519 left: auto; 520 right: 0; 521 } 522 523 #sfm-overlay { 524 display: none; 525 } 526 527 .sfm-body-pushed #sfm-overlay, body[class*="sfm-view-pushed"] #sfm-overlay { 528 opacity: 1 !important; 529 background: transparent !important; 530 } 531 .sfm-nav-bg_item { 532 background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) !important; 533 } 534 .sfm-style-full #sfm-sidebar .sfm-logo:before { 535 background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) !important; 536 } 537 .sfm-style-full #sfm-sidebar .sfm-fs-bottom-box:before { 538 background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); 539 } 540 541 .sfm-style-full #sfm-sidebar .sfm-sidebar-close:before, 542 .sfm-style-full #sfm-sidebar .sfm-sidebar-close:after { 543 background-color: #808080; 544 } 545 546 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li > a:before { 547 /*-webkit-transition: none; 548 transition: none; 549 background: #D92A2F;*/ 550 } 551 552 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li a { 553 padding-left: 15px !important; 554 padding-right: 15px !important; 555 } 556 557 #sfm-sidebar.sfm-hl-line .sfm-menu li a, 558 #sfm-sidebar.sfm-hl-text .sfm-menu li a { 559 padding-left: 0px !important; 560 padding-right: 0px !important; 561 } 562 563 564 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu a img{ 565 max-width: 40px; 566 max-height: 40px; 567 } 568 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu .la_icon{ 569 font-size: 40px; 570 min-width: 40px; 571 min-height: 40px; 572 } 573 574 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li > a span:before { 575 content: "0" attr(data-index); 576 display: inline-block; 577 vertical-align: super; 578 font-size: 55%; 579 opacity: 0.4; 580 margin-right: 5px; 581 } 582 @media only screen and (min-width: 800px) { 583 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li.sfm-active-class > a:before { 584 width: 100%; 585 } 586 } 587 #sfm-sidebar.sfm-hl-line .sfm-menu li.sfm-active-class > a { 588 background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); 589 } 590 591 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-back-parent { 592 background: #0a0a0a; 593 } 594 595 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-1, #sfm-sidebar ul.sfm-menu-level-1 { 596 background: #767676; 597 } 598 599 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-2, #sfm-sidebar ul.sfm-menu-level-2 { 600 background: #9e466b; 601 } 602 603 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-3, #sfm-sidebar ul.sfm-menu-level-3 { 604 background: #36939e; 605 } 606 607 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-0 li, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-0 li a, .sfm-title h3, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-back-parent { 608 color: #D92A2F; 609 } 610 611 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li a, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-chapter, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-back-parent { 612 padding: 15px 0; 613 text-transform: capitalize; 614 } 615 .sfm-style-full #sfm-sidebar.sfm-hl-line .sfm-menu li > a:before { 616 bottom: 10px 617 } 618 619 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-search-form input[type=text] { 620 padding-top:15px; 621 padding-bottom:15px; 622 } 623 624 .sfm-sub-swipe #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view .sfm-menu, 625 .sfm-sub-swipe .sfm-custom-content, 626 .sfm-sub-dropdown .sfm-custom-content { 627 padding-top: 65px; 628 } 629 630 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-search-form span { 631 top: 26.5px; 632 font-size: 32px; 633 font-weight: bold; 634 } 635 636 #sfm-sidebar { 637 font-family: inherit; 638 } 639 640 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-sm-indicator { 641 line-height: 35px; 642 } 643 644 #sfm-sidebar.sfm-indicators .sfm-sm-indicator i { 645 width: 18px; 646 height: 18px; 647 border-top-width: 8px; 648 border-right-width: 8px; 649 margin: -12px 0 0 -12px; 650 } 651 652 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-search-form input { 653 font-size: 35px; 654 } 655 656 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li a, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu .sfm-chapter, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-back-parent { 657 font-family: inherit; 658 font-weight: bold; 659 font-size: 35px; 660 letter-spacing: 0px; 661 text-align: center; 662 -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 663 font-smoothing: antialiased; 664 text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; 665 } 666 667 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-social-abbr a { 668 font-family: inherit; 669 } 670 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-widget, 671 #sfm-sidebar .widget-area { 672 text-align: center; 673 } 674 675 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-social { 676 text-align: center !important; 677 } 678 679 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu .sfm-chapter { 680 font-size: 15px; 681 margin-top: 15px; 682 font-weight: bold; 683 text-transform: capitalize; 684 } 685 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu .sfm-chapter div{ 686 font-family: inherit; 687 font-size: 15px; 688 } 689 .sfm-has-child-menu > a { 690 padding-right: 0 !important; 691 } 692 .sfm-pos-right .sfm-has-child-menu > a { 693 padding-left: 0 !important; 694 } 695 .sfm-rollback a { 696 font-family: inherit; 697 } 698 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu .la_icon{ 699 color: #020202; 700 } 701 702 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-0 li .sfm-sm-indicator i { 703 border-color: #D92A2F; 704 } 705 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-0 .sfm-sl, .sfm-title h2, .sfm-social:after { 706 color: #0a0a0a; 707 } 708 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-1 li .sfm-sm-indicator i { 709 border-color: #000000; 710 } 711 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-1 .sfm-sl { 712 color: #eeeeee; 713 } 714 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-
7142 li .sfm-sm-indicator i { 715 border-color: #000000; 716 } 717 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-2 .sfm-sl { 718 color: #eeeeee; 719 } 720 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-3 li .sfm-sm-indicator i { 721 border-color: #191919; 722 } 723 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-3 .sfm-sl { 724 color: #3f3f3f; 725 } 726 .sfm-menu-level-0 .sfm-chapter { 727 color: #00ffb8 !important; 728 } 729 .sfm-menu-level-1 .sfm-chapter { 730 color: #000000 !important; 731 } 732 .sfm-menu-level-2 .sfm-chapter { 733 color: #000000 !important; 734 } 735 .sfm-menu-level-3 .sfm-chapter { 736 color: #000000 !important; 737 } 738 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-1 li a, 739 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-1 li a{ 740 color: #000000; 741 border-color: #000000; 742 } 743 744 #sfm-sidebar:after { 745 background-color: #0a0a0a; 746 } 747 748 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-2 li a, 749 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-2 li a{ 750 color: #000000; 751 border-color: #000000; 752 } 753 754 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-3 li a, 755 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-3 li a { 756 color: #191919; 757 border-color: #191919; 758 } 759 760 .sfm-navicon-button { 761 top: 0px; 762 } 763 @media only screen and (max-width: 800px) { 764 .sfm-navicon-button { 765 top: 0px; 766 } 767 } 768 769 .sfm-navicon-button { 770 left: 0px !important; 771 } 772 @media only screen and (max-width: 800px) { 773 .sfm-navicon-button { 774 left: 0px !important; 775 } 776 } 777 778 @media only screen and (min-width: 800px) { 779 .sfm-pos-left.sfm-bar body, .sfm-pos-left.sfm-bar #wpadminbar { 780 padding-left: 350px !important; 781 } 782 .sfm-pos-right.sfm-bar body, .sfm-pos-right.sfm-bar #wpadminbar { 783 padding-right: 350px !important; 784 } 785 } 786 .sfm-navicon:after, 787 .sfm-label-text .sfm-navicon:after, 788 .sfm-label-none .sfm-navicon:after { 789 top: -8px; 790 } 791 .sfm-navicon:before, 792 .sfm-label-text .sfm-navicon:before, 793 .sfm-label-none .sfm-navicon:before { 794 top: 8px; 795 } 796 797 .sfm-body-pushed #sfm-overlay, body[class*="sfm-view-pushed"] #sfm-overlay { 798 opacity: 0.6; 799 } 800 .sfm-body-pushed #sfm-overlay, body[class*="sfm-view-pushed"] #sfm-overlay { 801 cursor: url("https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/plugins/superfly-menu/img/close3.png") 16 16,pointer; 802 } 803 804 805 806 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li:after { 807 content: ''; 808 display: block; 809 width: 100%; 810 box-sizing: border-box; 811 position: absolute; 812 bottom: 0px; 813 left: 0; 814 right: 0; 815 height: 1px; 816 background: rgb(0, 0, 0); 817 margin: 0 auto; 818 z-index: 0; 819 } 820 821 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li:last-child:after { 822 display: none; 823 } 824 825 826 .sfm-style-skew #sfm-sidebar .sfm-social{ 827 height: auto; 828 /*min-height: 75px;*/ 829 } 830 .sfm-theme-top .sfm-sidebar-bg, 831 .sfm-theme-bottom .sfm-sidebar-bg{ 832 width: 700px; 833 } 834 /* Pos left */ 835 .sfm-theme-top .sfm-sidebar-bg{ 836 -webkit-transform: translate3d(-350px,0,0) skewX(-12.05deg); 837 transform: translate3d(-350px,0,0) skewX(-12.05deg); 838 } 839 .sfm-theme-bottom .sfm-sidebar-bg{ 840 -webkit-transform: translate3d(-700px,0,0) skewX(12.05deg); 841 transform: translate3d(-350px,0,0) skewX(12.05deg); 842 } 843 /* Pos right */ 844 .sfm-pos-right .sfm-theme-top .sfm-sidebar-bg{ 845 -webkit-transform: translate3d(-0px,0,0) skewX(12.05deg); 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1215 font-weight: 500; 1216 font-display: swap; 1217 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa0ZL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1218 unicode-range: U+0301, U+0400-045F, U+0490-0491, U+04B0-04B1, U+2116; 1219} 1220/* greek-ext */ 1221@font-face { 1222 font-family: 'Inter'; 1223 font-style: normal; 1224 font-weight: 500; 1225 font-display: swap; 1226 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa2ZL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1227 unicode-range: U+1F00-1FFF; 1228} 1229/* greek */ 1230@font-face { 1231 font-family: 'Inter'; 1232 font-style: normal; 1233 font-weight: 500; 1234 font-display: swap; 1235 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa1pL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1236 unicode-range: U+0370-0377, U+037A-037F, U+0384-038A, U+038C, U+038E-03A1, U+03A3-03FF; 1237} 1238/* vietnamese */ 1239@font-face { 1240 font-family: 'Inter'; 1241 font-style: normal; 1242 font-weight: 500; 1243 font-display: swap; 1244 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa2pL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1245 unicode-range: U+0102-0103, U+0110-0111, U+0128-0129, U+0168-0169, U+01A0-01A1, U+01AF-01B0, U+0300-0301, U+0303-0304, U+0308-0309, U+0323, U+0329, U+1EA0-1EF9, U+20AB; 1246} 1247/* latin-ext */ 1248@font-face { 1249 font-family: 'Inter'; 1250 font-style: normal; 1251 font-weight: 500; 1252 font-display: swap; 1253 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa25L7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1254 unicode-range: U+0100-02BA, U+02BD-02C5, U+02C7-02CC, U+02CE-02D7, U+02DD-02FF, U+0304, U+0308, U+0329, U+1D00-1DBF, U+1E00-1E9F, U+1EF2-1EFF, U+2020, U+20A0-20AB, U+20AD-20C0, U+2113, U+2C60-2C7F, U+A720-A7FF; 1255} 1256/* latin */ 1257@font-face { 1258 font-family: 'Inter'; 1259 font-style: normal; 1260 font-weight: 500; 1261 font-display: swap; 1262 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa1ZL7.woff2) format('woff2'); 1263 unicode-range: U+0000-00FF, U+0131, U+0152-0153, U+02BB-02BC, U+02C6, U+02DA, U+02DC, U+0304, U+0308, U+0329, U+2000-206F, U+20AC, U+2122, U+2191, U+2193, U+2212, U+2215, U+FEFF, U+FFFD; 1264} 1265/* cyrillic-ext */ 1266@font-face { 1267 font-family: 'Inter'; 1268 font-style: normal; 1269 font-weight: 600; 1270 font-display: swap; 1271 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa2JL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1272 unicode-range: U+0460-052F, U+1C80-1C8A, U+20B4, U+2DE0-2DFF, U+A640-A69F, U+FE2E-FE2F; 1273} 1274/* cyrillic */ 1275@font-face { 1276 font-family: 'Inter'; 1277 font-style: normal; 1278 font-weight: 600; 1279 font-display: swap; 1280 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa0ZL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1281 unicode-range: U+0301, U+0400-045F, U+0490-0491, U+04B0-04B1, U+2116; 1282} 1283/* greek-ext */ 1284@font-face { 1285 font-family: 'Inter'; 1286 font-style: normal; 1287 font-weight: 600; 1288 font-display: swap; 1289 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa2ZL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1290 unicode-range: U+1F00-1FFF; 1291} 1292/* greek */ 1293@font-face { 1294 font-family: 'Inter'; 1295 font-style: normal; 1296 font-weight: 600; 1297 font-display: swap; 1298 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa1pL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1299 unicode-range: U+0370-0377, U+037A-037F, U+0384-038A, U+038C, U+038E-03A1, U+03A3-03FF; 1300} 1301/* vietnamese */ 1302@font-face { 1303 font-family: 'Inter'; 1304 font-style: normal; 1305 font-weight: 600; 1306 font-display: swap; 1307 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa2pL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1308 unicode-range: U+0102-0103, U+0110-0111, U+0128-0129, U+0168-0169, U+01A0-01A1, U+01AF-01B0, U+0300-0301, U+0303-0304, U+0308-0309, U+0323, U+0329, U+1EA0-1EF9, U+20AB; 1309} 1310/* latin-ext */ 1311@font-face { 1312 font-family: 'Inter'; 1313 font-style: normal; 1314 font-weight: 600; 1315 font-display: swap; 1316 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa25L7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1317 unicode-range: U+0100-02BA, U+02BD-02C5, U+02C7-02CC, U+02CE-02D7, U+02DD-02FF, U+0304, U+0308, U+0329, U+1D00-1D
1317BF, U+1E00-1E9F, U+1EF2-1EFF, U+2020, U+20A0-20AB, U+20AD-20C0, U+2113, U+2C60-2C7F, U+A720-A7FF; 1318} 1319/* latin */ 1320@font-face { 1321 font-family: 'Inter'; 1322 font-style: normal; 1323 font-weight: 600; 1324 font-display: swap; 1325 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa1ZL7.woff2) format('woff2'); 1326 unicode-range: U+0000-00FF, U+0131, U+0152-0153, U+02BB-02BC, U+02C6, U+02DA, U+02DC, U+0304, U+0308, U+0329, U+2000-206F, U+20AC, U+2122, U+2191, U+2193, U+2212, U+2215, U+FEFF, U+FFFD; 1327} 1328/* cyrillic-ext */ 1329@font-face { 1330 font-family: 'Inter'; 1331 font-style: normal; 1332 font-weight: 700; 1333 font-display: swap; 1334 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa2JL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1335 unicode-range: U+0460-052F, U+1C80-1C8A, U+20B4, U+2DE0-2DFF, U+A640-A69F, U+FE2E-FE2F; 1336} 1337/* cyrillic */ 1338@font-face { 1339 font-family: 'Inter'; 1340 font-style: normal; 1341 font-weight: 700; 1342 font-display: swap; 1343 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa0ZL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1344 unicode-range: U+0301, U+0400-045F, U+0490-0491, U+04B0-04B1, U+2116; 1345} 1346/* greek-ext */ 1347@font-face { 1348 font-family: 'Inter'; 1349 font-style: normal; 1350 font-weight: 700; 1351 font-display: swap; 1352 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa2ZL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1353 unicode-range: U+1F00-1FFF; 1354} 1355/* greek */ 1356@font-face { 1357 font-family: 'Inter'; 1358 font-style: normal; 1359 font-weight: 700; 1360 font-display: swap; 1361 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa1pL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1362 unicode-range: U+0370-0377, U+037A-037F, U+0384-038A, U+038C, U+038E-03A1, U+03A3-03FF; 1363} 1364/* vietnamese */ 1365@font-face { 1366 font-family: 'Inter'; 1367 font-style: normal; 1368 font-weight: 700; 1369 font-display: swap; 1370 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa2pL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1371 unicode-range: U+0102-0103, U+0110-0111, U+0128-0129, U+0168-0169, U+01A0-01A1, U+01AF-01B0, U+0300-0301, U+0303-0304, U+0308-0309, U+0323, U+0329, U+1EA0-1EF9, U+20AB; 1372} 1373/* latin-ext */ 1374@font-face { 1375 font-family: 'Inter'; 1376 font-style: normal; 1377 font-weight: 700; 1378 font-display: swap; 1379 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa25L7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1380 unicode-range: U+0100-02BA, U+02BD-02C5, U+02C7-02CC, U+02CE-02D7, U+02DD-02FF, U+0304, U+0308, U+0329, U+1D00-1DBF, U+1E00-1E9F, U+1EF2-1EFF, U+2020, U+20A0-20AB, U+20AD-20C0, U+2113, U+2C60-2C7F, U+A720-A7FF; 1381} 1382/* latin */ 1383@font-face { 1384 font-family: 'Inter'; 1385 font-style: normal; 1386 font-weight: 700; 1387 font-display: swap; 1388 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa1ZL7.woff2) format('woff2'); 1389 unicode-range: U+0000-00FF, U+0131, U+0152-0153, U+02BB-02BC, U+02C6, U+02DA, U+02DC, U+0304, U+0308, U+0329, U+2000-206F, U+20AC, U+2122, U+2191, U+2193, U+2212, U+2215, U+FEFF, U+FFFD; 1390}/* cyrillic-ext */ 1391@font-face { 1392 font-family: 'Inter'; 1393 font-style: normal; 1394 font-weight: 400; 1395 font-display: swap; 1396 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa2JL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1397 unicode-range: U+0460-052F, U+1C80-1C8A, U+20B4, U+2DE0-2DFF, U+A640-A69F, U+FE2E-FE2F; 1398} 1399/* cyrillic */ 1400@font-face { 1401 font-family: 'Inter'; 1402 font-style: normal; 1403 font-weight: 400; 1404 font-display: swap; 1405 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa0ZL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1406 unicode-range: U+0301, U+0400-045F, U+0490-0491, U+04B0-04B1, U+2116; 1407} 1408/* greek-ext */ 1409@font-face { 1410 font-family: 'Inter'; 1411 font-style: normal; 1412 font-weight: 400; 1413 font-display: swap; 1414 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa2ZL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1415 unicode-range: U+1F00-1FFF; 1416} 1417/* greek */ 1418@font-face { 1419 font-family: 'Inter'; 1420 font-style: normal; 1421 font-weight: 400; 1422 font-display: swap; 1423 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa1pL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1424 unicode-range: U+0370-0377, U+037A-037F, U+0384-038A, U+038C, U+038E-03A1, U+03A3-03FF; 1425} 1426/* vietnamese */ 1427@font-face { 1428 font-family: 'Inter'; 1429 font-style: normal; 1430 font-weight: 400; 1431 font-display: swap; 1432 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa2pL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1433 unicode-range: U+0102-0103, U+0110-0111, U+0128-0129, U+0168-0169, U+01A0-01A1, U+01AF-01B0, U+0300-0301, U+0303-0304, U+0308-0309, U+0323, U+0329, U+1EA0-1EF9, U+20AB; 1434} 1435/* latin-ext */ 1436@font-face { 1437 font-family: 'Inter'; 1438 font-style: normal; 1439 font-weight: 400; 1440 font-display: swap; 1441 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa25L7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1442 unicode-range: U+0100-02BA, U+02BD-02C5, U+02C7-02CC, U+02CE-02D7, U+02DD-02FF, U+0304, U+0308, U+0329, U+1D00-1D
1442BF, U+1E00-1E9F, U+1EF2-1EFF, U+2020, U+20A0-20AB, U+20AD-20C0, U+2113, U+2C60-2C7F, U+A720-A7FF; 1443} 1444/* latin */ 1445@font-face { 1446 font-family: 'Inter'; 1447 font-style: normal; 1448 font-weight: 400; 1449 font-display: swap; 1450 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa1ZL7.woff2) format('woff2'); 1451 unicode-range: U+0000-00FF, U+0131, U+0152-0153, U+02BB-02BC, U+02C6, U+02DA, U+02DC, U+0304, U+0308, U+0329, U+2000-206F, U+20AC, U+2122, U+2191, U+2193, U+2212, U+2215, U+FEFF, U+FFFD; 1452} 1453/* cyrillic-ext */ 1454@font-face { 1455 font-family: 'Inter'; 1456 font-style: normal; 1457 font-weight: 500; 1458 font-display: swap; 1459 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa2JL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1460 unicode-range: U+0460-052F, U+1C80-1C8A, U+20B4, U+2DE0-2DFF, U+A640-A69F, U+FE2E-FE2F; 1461} 1462/* cyrillic */ 1463@font-face { 1464 font-family: 'Inter'; 1465 font-style: normal; 1466 font-weight: 500; 1467 font-display: swap; 1468 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa0ZL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1469 unicode-range: U+0301, U+0400-045F, U+0490-0491, U+04B0-04B1, U+2116; 1470} 1471/* greek-ext */ 1472@font-face { 1473 font-family: 'Inter'; 1474 font-style: normal; 1475 font-weight: 500; 1476 font-display: swap; 1477 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa2ZL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1478 unicode-range: U+1F00-1FFF; 1479} 1480/* greek */ 1481@font-face { 1482 font-family: 'Inter'; 1483 font-style: normal; 1484 font-weight: 500; 1485 font-display: swap; 1486 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa1pL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1487 unicode-range: U+0370-0377, U+037A-037F, U+0384-038A, U+038C, U+038E-03A1, U+03A3-03FF; 1488} 1489/* vietnamese */ 1490@font-face { 1491 font-family: 'Inter'; 1492 font-style: normal; 1493 font-weight: 500; 1494 font-display: swap; 1495 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa2pL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1496 unicode-range: U+0102-0103, U+0110-0111, U+0128-0129, U+0168-0169, U+01A0-01A1, U+01AF-01B0, U+0300-0301, U+0303-0304, U+0308-0309, U+0323, U+0329, U+1EA0-1EF9, U+20AB; 1497} 1498/* latin-ext */ 1499@font-face { 1500 font-family: 'Inter'; 1501 font-style: normal; 1502 font-weight: 500; 1503 font-display: swap; 1504 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa25L7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1505 unicode-range: U+0100-02BA, U+02BD-02C5, U+02C7-02CC, U+02CE-02D7, U+02DD-02FF, U+0304, U+0308, U+0329, U+1D00-1DBF, U+1E00-1E9F, U+1EF2-1EFF, U+2020, U+20A0-20AB, U+20AD-20C0, U+2113, U+2C60-2C7F, U+A720-A7FF; 1506} 1507/* latin */ 1508@font-face { 1509 font-family: 'Inter'; 1510 font-style: normal; 1511 font-weight: 500; 1512 font-display: swap; 1513 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa1ZL7.woff2) format('woff2'); 1514 unicode-range: U+0000-00FF, U+0131, U+0152-0153, U+02BB-02BC, U+02C6, U+02DA, U+02DC, U+0304, U+0308, U+0329, U+2000-206F, U+20AC, U+2122, U+2191, U+2193, U+2212, U+2215, U+FEFF, U+FFFD; 1515} 1516/* cyrillic-ext */ 1517@font-face { 1518 font-family: 'Inter'; 1519 font-style: normal; 1520 font-weight: 600; 1521 font-display: swap; 1522 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa2JL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1523 unicode-range: U+0460-052F, U+1C80-1C8A, U+20B4, U+2DE0-2DFF, U+A640-A69F, U+FE2E-FE2F; 1524} 1525/* cyrillic */ 1526@font-face { 1527 font-family: 'Inter'; 1528 font-style: normal; 1529 font-weight: 600; 1530 font-display: swap; 1531 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa0ZL7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1532 unicode-range: U+0301, U+0400-045F, U+0490-0491, U+04B0-04B1, U+2116; 1533} 1534/* greek-ext */ 1535@font-face { 1536 font-family: 'Inter'; 1537 font-style: normal; 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1560} 1561/* latin-ext */ 1562@font-face { 1563 font-family: 'Inter'; 1564 font-style: normal; 1565 font-weight: 600; 1566 font-display: swap; 1567 src: url(https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/fonts/inter/UcC73FwrK3iLTeHuS_nVMrMxCp50SjIa25L7SUc.woff2) format('woff2'); 1568 unicode-range: U+0100-02BA, U+02BD-02C5, U+02C7-02CC, U+02CE-02D7, U+02DD-02FF, U+0304, U+0308, U+0329, U+1D00-1D
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2039classroom depicting a young Native American girl at a boarding school and a young Native American boy removed from his home, walking the Trail of Tears. âMy immediate reaction was I just felt so trivialized,â George said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2015-04-08/jsd-replaces-texts-spurred-protests">more</a>) (4-9-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/040815/new_1244119051.shtml">SHI to sponsor Latseen Leadership Academy July 6-9</a></strong><br />Capital City Weekly<br />Applications are now available for Sealaska Heritage Institute’s annual Latseen Leadership Academy program. This year’s academy for high school students will be held July 6-19 at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau. The academy will serve 40 high school students from Angoon, Prince of Wales, Klukwan and Juneau. Travel scholarships are available. Yées Sháade Nákx’I Yán (New Young Leaders) is designed to provide engaging culturally-based education and activities for high school students in support of their future academic and personal success with a focus on rigor, relevance, and relationships…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/040815/new_1244119051.shtml">more</a>) (4-8-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/article/20150405/sealaska-makes-use-new-clan-house-soboleff-center">Sealaska makes use of new clan house in Soboleff Center</a></strong><br />By Mary Catharine Martin<br />Alaska Dispatch News<br />JUNEAU — Sealaska Heritage Foundation at the end of March made apt first use of the clan house in the new Walter Soboleff Center: as a place to focus on children for a new three-year pre-literacy and school readiness program, Baby Raven Reads. “It’s fitting the first group in this building is the children, who get to grow up in this place,” said an initial speaker, adding that organizers had conducted a cleansing and blessing ceremony that afternoon. Music played in the background as families arrived at the room, which smelled of fresh cedar. Kids walked along the differently hued planks as if they were balance beams…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/article/20150405/sealaska-makes-use-new-clan-house-soboleff-center">more</a>) (4-5-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2015-04-01-1">Baby Raven Reads … and sings, dances and tells stories</a></strong><br />By Mary Catharine Martin<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute at the end of March made apt first use of the clan house in the new Walter Soboleff Center: as a place to focus on children for a new three-year pre-literacy and school readiness program, Baby Raven Reads.”It’s fitting the first group in this building is the children, who get to grow up in this place,” said an initial speaker, adding that organizers had conducted a cleansing and blessing ceremony that afternoon…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2015-04-01-1">more</a>) (4-1-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/040115/new_1243362159.shtml">Baby Raven Reads … and sings, dances and tells stories</a></strong><br />By Mary Catharine Martin<br />Capital City Weekly<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute at the end of March made apt first use of the clan house in the new Walter Soboleff Center: as a place to focus on children for a new three-year pre-literacy and school readiness program, Baby Raven Reads.”It’s fitting the first group in this building is the children, who get to grow up in this place,” said an initial speaker, adding that organizers had conducted a cleansing and blessing ceremony that afternoon…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/040115/new_1243362159.shtml">more</a>) (4-1-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/032515/new_1242608383.shtml"><strong>SHI to sponsor first family night for Baby Raven Reads</strong></a><br />Capital City Weekly<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor a family night for Alaska Native families with children ages 0-5.<br />This free event is part of SHI’s Baby Raven Reads program, which promotes pre-literacy, language development and school readiness. Families are invited to join us for storytelling, songs and other cultural activities. Family night will be held on Wednesday, March 25 from 5pm-6:30pm at the Walter Soboleff Building…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/032515/new_1242608383.shtml">more</a>) (3-25-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/032515/new_1242610240.shtml">Juneau library to launch Alaska Native oral history project</a></strong><br />Capital City Weekly<br />The Juneau Public Library system will collect stories by Alaska Natives about their educational experiences for an oral history project. The library is among 10 selected from more than 300 applicants across the nation for the oral history project through StoryCorps, a nonprofit whose mission is to promote an “understanding that everyone’s story matters.”… The interviews will be archived locally at the library and the Sealaska Heritage Institute…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/032515/new_1242610240.shtml">more</a>) (3-25-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2015-03-10/photos-six-months-making">Photos: Six months in the making</a></strong><br />By Michael Penn<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Tsimshian carver David Boxley, of Metlakatla, explains the formline design on the cedar panels to Sealaska Heritage Institutes’ Nobu Koch and Kari Groven, right, as work to install the Tsimshian house front at the Walter Soboleff Center started on Monday. Boxley and his son, David Robert Boxley, left, spent six months carving and painting the panels that will greet visitors to the center…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2015-03-10/photos-six-months-making">more</a>) (3-10-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/article/20150305/art-beat-giant-glass-juneau-mystery-dinner-valley">Art Beat: Giant glass in Juneau, mystery dinner in the Valley</a></strong><br />By Mike Dunham<br />Alaska Dispatch News<br />We recently got our first peek at what is said to be âthe largest glass screen in the world.â At 17 feet wide and 12 feet high, that seems like a credible claim. Note the term âscreenâ here means a full-wall frieze found in traditional Northwest Indian clan houses, made out of cedar in years past. This screen, however, will be by glass artist Preston Singletary and will adorn the clan house inside the new Walter Soboleff Building now under construction in Juneau. Sealaska Heritage Institute sent us a sketch of the screen. The real deal will be unveiled when the building opens on May 15…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/article/20150305/art-beat-giant-glass-juneau-mystery-dinner-valley">more</a>) (3-8-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.wrangellsentinel.com/story/2015/03/05/news/carving-facility-hosts-first-crafts-class/2928.html">Carving facility hosts first crafts class</a></strong><br />By Dan Rudy<br />Wrangell Sentinel<br />All of last weekend, the first of what is intended to be many cultural courses was held at Wrangell Cooperative Association’s new carving facility, which was finished last autumn. From Thursday afternoon through Sunday, local Native residents were shown how to craft with sea otter pelts by Jeremiah James, operator of Yakutat Furs since 2010. “This is the ninth class I’ve done,” James explained, and the second he has delivered in Wrangell. It was his first time working in the new facility however, and he was impressed. “What an awesome building to be in,” he commented. In particular, he said the combination of overhead and natural lighting had been helpful…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.wrangellsentinel.com/story/2015/03/05/news/carving-facility-hosts-first-crafts-class/2928.html">more</a>) (3-5-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2015-03-04-16">SHI chooses apprentices to make, install monumental glass piece</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has chosen five apprentices to help create and install a massive glass screen for the new Walter Soboleff Building in Juneau. Three of the apprentices will help glass artist Preston Singletary make the screen at his studio in Seattle in March…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2015-03-04-16">more</a>) (3-5-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/030415/new_1240591812.shtml">SHI chooses apprentices to make, install monumental glass piece</a></strong><br />
2039CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has chosen five apprentices to help create and install a massive glass screen for the new Walter Soboleff Building in Juneau. Three of the apprentices will help glass artist Preston Singletary make the screen at his studio in Seattle in March. The other two will help Singletary install it in the clan house inside the new building in May. The piece will be unveiled to the public at the grand opening on May 15. The people chosen to help Singletary make the screen are…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/030415/new_1240591812.shtml">more</a>) (3-4-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.kstk.org/2015/03/03/otter-hide-sewing-is-first-class-held-in-wrangells-carving-facility/"><strong>Otter hide sewing is first class held in Wrangell’s carving facility</strong></a><br />By Katarina Sostaric<br />KSTK News<br />Wrangellâs new carving facility hosted its first Alaska Native craft class last weekend, and about 20 residents signed up to learn the basics of sewing otter skins. On a Sunday afternoon, the carving facility was full of people quietly working on their sewing projects. They were hand-sewing sea otter skins to make hats, mittens, headbands, pillows and capes. Arthur Larsen was sewing a bomber hat, which will have flaps to cover his ears. âItâs my first time in a class, and itâs a really good experience,â Larsen said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.kstk.org/2015/03/03/otter-hide-sewing-is-first-class-held-in-wrangells-carving-facility/">more</a>) (3-3-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2015-02-25/photo-moving-sealaskas-treasures"><strong>Photo: Moving Sealaska’s treasures</strong></a><br />By Michael Penn<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Chuck Smythe, Culture and History Director for the Sealaska Heritage Institute, watches Jon Loring, left, place a spruce root basket from SHI’s collection into a protective mount for transport and storage on Tuesday. SHI is moving their collection to the vault in the new Walter Soboleff Center this week. Lorings work is being paid by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2015-02-25/photo-moving-sealaskas-treasures">more</a>) (2-25-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2015/02/19/tlingit-masks-antiques-roadshow-draw-questions-southeast-alaska/">Tlingit masks on “Antiques Roadshow” draw questions from Southeast Alaska</a></strong><br />By Margaret Friedenauer<br />KHNS<br />AÂ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/201401A28.html">recent episode</a>Â of the popular PBS show âAntiques Roadshowâ caught the attention of some Southeast residents when a couple of 200-year-old Tlingit masks from Haines appeared on screen. It sparked the interests of regional Natives and historians and raised questions about how the items left the area. Fans of Antiques Roadshow wait for those moments when an item on the program is valued at tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. The TV cameras catch the ownerâs stunned reaction when they hear their family heirloom is worth more than they imagined. Thatâs what happened recently during an episode of the show that was filmed in Bismarck, North Dakota…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2015/02/19/tlingit-masks-antiques-roadshow-draw-questions-southeast-alaska/">more</a>) (2-19-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2015-02-04">Governor’s Awards photos</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Alaska Humanities Forum honored nine Alaskans last week at the 2015 Governorâs Awards for the Arts and Humanities ceremony at the Juneau Arts & Culture Center. In addition to the four Arts awardees and the four Humanities awardees, the Alaska State Council on the Arts announced Frank Soos of Fairbanks as the 2014-2016 Alaska State Writer Laureate, replacing Nora Marks Dauenhauer of Juneau. The 2015 awardees are…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2015-02-04">more</a>) (2-4-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/012815/new_1236636462.shtml">A big night in the Arts</a></strong><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />Capital City Weekly<br />If creative energy showed up as visible light, the glow emanating from the Juneau Arts & Culture Center Thursday night would easily be bright enough to be seen by passing satellites in space.<br />The Governor’s Awards for the Arts and Humanities ceremony, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29, will bring together Alaskan artists, educators and humanitarians of many different types. Some will be honored with awards, others will perform in celebration of the first group’s wide-ranging contributions to the state. Southeast artists and humanitarians will be well represented as both honorees and performers; recipients of this year’s nine awards include the nonprofit Sealaska Heritage Institute, which will be honored with the Alaska Native Arts award…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/012815/new_1236636462.shtml">more</a>) (1-28-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2015-01-28/shi-launches-program-teach-literacy-skills-through-arts">SHI launches program to teach literacy skills through the arts</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has launched a new program this month to improve literacy skills and increase use of the Tlingit language through performing arts and digital storytelling. The program, Voices on the Land, will integrate performing arts and digital storytelling into six Juneau schools over three years through artists in residence, digital storytelling and a teacher training academy. The first component â the artists in residence program â launched in January 2015 at Gastineau Elementary, Harborview Elementary and DzantikâI Heeni Middle School̷
20390;(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2015-01-28/shi-launches-program-teach-literacy-skills-through-arts">more</a>) (1-29-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/012815/new_1236636785.shtml">SHI launches program to teach literacy skills through the arts</a></strong><br />Capital City Weekly<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has launched a new program this month to improve literacy skills and increase use of the Tlingit language through performing arts and digital storytelling. The program, Voices on the Land, will integrate performing arts and digital storytelling into six Juneau schools over three years through artists in residence, digital storytelling and a teacher training academy. The first component â the artists in residence program â launched in January 2015 at Gastineau Elementary, Harborview Elementary and DzantikâI Heeni Middle School…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/012815/new_1236636785.shtml">more</a>) (1-28-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/011415/new_1235189233.shtml">A day in the life of: Kinkaduneek Paul Marks</a></strong><br />By Mary Catharine Martin<br />Capital City Weekly<br />Tlingit elder and storyteller Paul Marks teaches, carves, and translates. But one of the most important aspects of being Tlingit, he says, is harder to articulate, and not quantifiable. It has to do with absorbing stories and their meaning, and making them a part of how you interact with the world.<br />“Just because I speak English doesn’t make me a white man,” he said. “Same there. Just because you speak Tlingit doesn’t make you a Tlingit”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/011415/new_1235189233.shtml">more</a>) (1-14-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2015-01-08/shi-accepting-applications-scholarships">SHI accepting applications for scholarships</a></strong><br />Sealaska Heritage Institute is accepting scholarship applications for the 2015-2016 school year. The deadline to apply is March 1. However, the institute is offering a $50 incentive to those who complete their scholarship application on or before Feb. 1 and who are accepted as scholarship recipients…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2015-01-08/shi-accepting-applications-scholarships">more</a>) (1-8-15)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a id="2014" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-12-30/2014-politically-spicy-year-alaska"><strong>2014 a politically spicy year for Alaska</strong></a><br /><em>Budget crises, big philanthropy and a new start fot eh state</em><br />By Melissa Griffiths<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Trying to characterize a yearâs events in a few words is as impossible as trying to describe typical weather in Juneau, especially this year. Luckily, this isnât a tweet. Fresh in our minds is the historic inauguration of Gov. Bill Walker and Lieutenant Gov. Byron Mallott, Alaskaâs first independent âUnity Ticket.â Theyâre also the first Alaska-born pairing for the executive roles. Whatever your politics, itâs nice to see someone with roots in Yakutat and Juneau occupying one of the stateâs top jobs…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-12-30/2014-politically-spicy-year-alaska">more</a>) (12-30-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-12-25/bright-moments-arts-2014">Bright moments in the Arts 2014</a></strong><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The Empireâs annual Bright Moments in the Arts feature is designed to celebrate creativity in all its forms. Each of the following lists of five great moments from 2014 presents just a tiny slice of the whole picture, as viewed through the words and memories of one community member. Taken as a whole, the lists are reflective of a spirit of gratitude toward all those who devote their time, energy and talent through the arts, enriching our lives in the process. To share your own list, leave a comment here or post to Facebook with your thoughts…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-12-25/bright-moments-arts-2014">more</a>) (12-25-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/slideshow/2014-12-21/slideshow-soboleff-ceremony#slide-13">Slideshow:Soboleff Ceremony</a></strong><br />By Michael Penn<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Twenty-two photos of the blessing of the Walter Soboleff Building and subsequent tour of the facility …(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/slideshow/2014-12-21/slideshow-soboleff-ceremony#slide-13">more</a>) (12-21-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-12-21/shi-staff-begin-moving-soboleff-center">SHI staff begin moving in to Soboleff Center</a></strong><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Construction of the Walter Soboleff Center reached an important milestone last week as Sealaska Heritage Institute staff began moving into new offices on the second floor of the unfinished building. The center, located on the corner of Seward and Front Streets downtown, will remain closed to the public as construction on the first and third floors continues, with a formal opening date set for May 15. During a brief ceremony Friday afternoon to mark SHIâs occupation of the building, staff members Donald Gregory and Frank Katasse, who are of the Raven and Eagle moieties respectively, hung stalks of devilâs club above the door, an ancient practice…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-12-21/shi-staff-begin-moving-soboleff-center">more</a>) (12-21-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-12-19/photo-moving-d
2039ay"><strong>Photo: Moving day</strong></a><br />By Michael Penn<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Anthony Harding, left, and John Gregory move boxes of files into the finished second-floor offices of the Sealaska Heritage Institute in the new Walter Soboleff Center on Thursday. Work continues on the first floor but Institute employees will be working in their new offices by Jan. 1. The Grand Opening is scheduled for May 15…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-12-19/photo-moving-day">more</a>) (12-19-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.alaskapublic.org/2014/12/18/sealaska-heritage-institute-begins-move-into-walter-soboleff-center/">Sealaska Heritage Institute begins move into Walter Soboleff Center</a></strong><br />By Lisa Phu<br />Alaska Public Radio Network<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute started moving into its new home in the yet-to-be-opened Walter Soboleff Center this week. Chief Operating Officer Lee Kadinger hopes Sealaska Heritage Institute will be relocated by the end of January. The grand opening of the Walter Soboleff Center is May 15. âNext door will be our new home,â Kadinger says from his current office at One Sealaska Plaza. âSo every time you hear weâre having a Native Lecture Series, itâll be at Sealaska Heritage. Every time you hear that weâre having weaving classes, itâll be at Sealaska Heritage. Everything that we do isnât going to be scattered around in different places or classrooms or meeting rooms; itâll be at Sealaska Heritage”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.alaskapublic.org/2014/12/18/sealaska-heritage-institute-begins-move-into-walter-soboleff-center/">more</a>) (12-18-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/12/18/sealaska-heritage-institute-begins-move-walter-soboleff-center/"><strong>Sealaska Heritage Institute begins move into Walter Soboleff Center</strong></a><br />By Lisa Phu<br />KTOO<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute started moving into its new home in the yet-to-be-opened Walter Soboleff Center this week. Chief Operating Officer Lee Kadinger hopes Sealaska Heritage Institute will be relocated by the end of January. The grand opening of the Walter Soboleff Center is May 15. âNext door will be our new home,â Kadinger says from his current office at One Sealaska Plaza. âSo every time you hear weâre having a Native Lecture Series, itâll be at Sealaska Heritage. Every time you hear that weâre having weaving classes, itâll be at Sealaska Heritage. Everything that we do isnât going to be scattered around in different places or classrooms or meeting rooms; itâll be at Sealaska Heritage”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/12/18/sealaska-heritage-institute-begins-move-walter-soboleff-center/">more</a>) (12-18-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-12-18/2015-governors-awards-include-sealaska-heritage-institute">2015 Governor’s Awards include Sealaska Heritage Institute</a></strong><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Juneau-based nonprofit Sealaska Heritage Institute has been formally honored for its contributions to the arts in Alaska with a 2015 Governorâs Award for the Arts and Humanities. The Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Alaska Humanities Forum announced the recipients of the awards Tuesday, as well as the Alaska State Writer Laureate for the 2014-2016 term. Sealaska Heritage Institute, one of eight recipients, earned this yearâs Alaska Native Arts award…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-12-18/2015-governors-awards-include-sealaska-heritage-institute">more</a>) (12-18-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/12/17/coastline-search-leads-first-residents-camps/">Coastline search leads to first residents’ camps</a></strong><br />By Ed Schoenfeld<br />CoastAlaska News<br />The Earthâs crust is more flexible than you think â especially in Southeast Alaska. Growing and shrinking icefields and glaciers, and rising and falling oceans have altered the regionâs co
2039astline over time. Understanding those changes is helping scientists learn more about the areaâs early human habitation. A Southeast geologist talked about whatâs been discovered during a Nov. 25 Sealaska Heritage Institute <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/https:/vimeo.com/113764709">Native American Heritage Month lecture</a>…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/12/17/coastline-search-leads-first-residents-camps/">more</a>) (12-17-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-12-05/questioned-school-district-curriculum-be-replaced">Questioned school district curriculum to be replaced</a></strong><br /><em>Superintendent Miller followed committee recommendation</em><br />By Melissa Griffiths<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />After much deliberation and some sleepless nights, Juneau School District Superintendent Mark Miller announced that four questioned texts will be removed from classrooms. Flanked by three Native Elders who had attended boarding schools in their younger years, Miller made the announcement during a press conference at the Zach Gordon Youth Center. âI have decided to replace McGraw Hill curriculum with one that the district, in collaboration with Goldbelt Heritage and Sealaska (Heritage Institute) will develop,â he said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-12-05/questioned-school-district-curriculum-be-replaced">more</a>) (12-5-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/article/20141204/juneau-superintendent-removes-4-controversial-native-history-books-4th-grade">Juneau superintendent removes 4 controversial Native history books from 4th-grade curriculum</a></strong><br />By Tegan Hanlon<br />Alaska Dispatch News<br />The Juneau School District superintendent on Thursday said he will remove four books from the fourth-grade curriculum that members of the public called into question this year, saying the controversial material distorted Native American history. The books from McGraw-Hill Education tell stories of Native experiences, presenting topics like boarding school and the Trail of Tears through a fictional lens. âIt was a matter of looking at the material and saying, âIs this the best we can do or can we do better?’ â said Mark Miller, district superintendent. âItâs just so important that we leverage every minute we have with our kids”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/article/20141204/juneau-superintendent-removes-4-controversial-native-history-books-4th-grade">more</a>) (12-4-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/12/04/juneau-schools-replace-controversial-texts-local-history/">Juneau schools to replace controversial texts with local history</a></strong><br />By Lisa Phu<br />KTOO<br />Superintendent Mark Miller didnât announce his decision alone â he brought along three Native elders who had all attended Native boarding schools. Charlotte McConnell was 7 when her mother died and her father sent her and her siblings to boarding school. She was told by her aunt, ââYou canât speak no Tlingit, you got to speak English, youâre going to school.â And so thatâs where I got understanding English only.â McConnell attended schools in Juneau, Seward, Wrangell and Sitka…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/12/04/juneau-schools-replace-controversial-texts-local-history/">more</a>) (12-4-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-12-01/jineit-carving-and-adzing-wayne-price-and-donald-gregory">Jineit: Carving and adzing by Wayne Price and Donald Gregory</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Haines-based Tlingit carver Wayne Price will demonstrate his adzing techniques and Juneau artist Donald Gregory will be carving hooks at Jineit, located in the Sealaska Building, Sealaska Plaza. Price, one of the artists currently working on the Soboleff Building downtown, said a previous Empire interview that learning traditional carving involves knowledge of how art relates to indigenous culture and history…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-12-01/jineit-carving-and-adzing-wayne-price-and-donald-gregory">more</a>) (12-1-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/112614/new_1228934786.shtml">Glaciers, seals and stories</a></strong><br />By Mary Catharine Martin<br />
2039CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY<br />A team of researchers and Yakutat residents has been working for the last four years to show, through archaeological research, the truth of oral tradition about Yakutat’s historical seal camps. They’ve successfully uncovered sites buried for years, and now they’re making a movie about their work.<br />Aron Crowell, Alaska director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Arctic Studies Center, and Judy Ramos, who is completing her Ph.D. dissertation in indigenous studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, shared their Yakutat experience as part of Sealaska Heritage Institute’s series of lectures honoring Native American Heritage month…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/112614/new_1228934786.shtml">more</a>) (11-26-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-11-20/shi-wraps-native-american-heritage-month-lecture-series-tuesday#.VG6F0fl4p1U"><strong>SHI wraps up Native American Heritage Month lecture series Tuesday</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor a free lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 25, entitled âChanging shorelines and the Search for Early Habitation Sitesâ led by Jim Baichtal, Forest Geologist with the Tongass National Forest. Here is a synopsis of what he will be discussing…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-11-20/shi-wraps-native-american-heritage-month-lecture-series-tuesday#.VG6F0fl4p1U">more</a>) (11-20-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-11-20/sharing-her-point-view#.VG4kt_l4p1U">Alaska Writer Laureate Nora Dauenhauer finishes up two-year term</a></strong><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Alaska State Writer Laureate Nora Marks Dauenhauer sits at the dining room table in her Douglas home, a stack of books and a cup of tea in front of her. Behind her hangs a lithograph of Tlingit elder Jessie Dalton by R.T. Wallen, and, on the opposite wall, rows of family photographs. A line of windows runs along the back of the room, looking out toward Gastineau Channel. At the table, Dauenhauer thumbs through a dog-eared copy of one of her books, âLife Woven with Song,â selects a poem called âWillie,â written for her father, Tlingit carver and fisherman Willie Marks, and begins to read. Her voice is soft and unhurried, a little wavery after 87 years of life, but measured and strong, with a gentle lilt of emotion…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-11-20/sharing-her-point-view#.VG4kt_l4p1U">more</a>) (11-20-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>SHI to sponsor lecture on Tuesday for Native American Heritage Month</strong><br />Alaska Business Monthly<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor a free lecture on Tuesday, November 18 on the harbor seals and other rich resources of Yakutat Bay that have sustained the Eyak, Ahtna and Tlingit people throughout history. Dr. Aron Crowell from the Smithsonian Institution Arctic Studies Center and UAAâs Judy Ramos of Yakutat will talk about collaborative efforts to research the unique history of the Yakutat people and their relationship to one of Alaskaâs richest ecosystems…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.akbizmag.com/Alaska-Business-Monthly/November-2014/SHI-to-sponsor-lecture-on-Tuesday-for-Native-American-Heritage-Month/">more</a>) (11-16-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-11-13/upcoming-native-american-heritage-month-events#.VGozA_l4p1U">Upcoming Native American Heritage Month events</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The observance of Native American Heritage Month continues in Juneau this week with a lecture, kidsâ event, film showing and special food-centered event. Read on for details…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-11-13/upcoming-native-american-heritage-month-events#.VGozA_l4p1U">more</a>) (11-13-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.anchoragepress.com/film/1083/weaving-tale-alaskan-documentary-tracing-roots">Weaving the tale: Alaskan documentary tracing roots</a></strong><br />Anchorage Press<br />Documentaries are a dime a dozen and they span a wide gamut of subjects, not to mention the variability in quality and integrity. Tracing Roots accomplishes in approximately 3
20390 minutes what many full length documentaries fail to doâit delivers a lot of information in a concise, focused and interesting manner. The story unfolds like roots, in multiple directions all at once to make connections between culture and time, the environment and history. event, film showing and special food-centered event…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.anchoragepress.com/film/1083/weaving-tale-alaskan-documentary-tracing-roots">more</a>) (11-12-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-11-05/native-american-heritage-month-events-scheduled-november#.VGOpT_l4p1V">Native American Heritage Month events scheduled for November</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />November is Native American Heritage Month. Upcoming local events include a Tlingit Language and Arts Program at the Zach Gordon Youth Center, a film series at UAS, and the continuation of Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs annual noon lecture series, which began Wednesday. Hereâs more information…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-11-05/native-american-heritage-month-events-scheduled-november#.VGOpT_l4p1V">more</a>) (11-5-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Stolen totem pole comes home</strong><br /><em>Pole spent decades on estates of actors John Barrymore and Vincent Price</em><br />By Melissa Griffiths<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />In a scenario that sounds like it was yanked directly from Carmen Sandiegoâs fictional case files, University of Alaska Anchorage Professor Emeritus Steve Langdon seems to have solved the mystery of a totem pole stolen from Prince of Wales Island decades ago. As the first speaker for Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs lecture series for Native American Heritage Month, Langdon shared his findings in a talk titled âKooteeyaa: The Travels and Travails of a Tlingit Totem Pole From Takjikâaan (Tuxecan)”. ..(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-11-05/stolen-totem-pole-comes-home?ppRandom=0.9716168606828995&pp_u=etMZQjvusaOmL01ujSy-E8#.VGOle_l4p1X">more</a>) (11-5-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-11-04/native-american-heritage-month-lectures-begin-wednesday-shi#.VGOiI_l4p1U">Native American Heritage Month lectures begin Wednesday at SHI</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Beginning this week, Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor its annual noon lecture series to celebrate Native American Heritage Month in November. The first lecture in the series will be âKooteeyaa: The Travels and Travails of a Tlingit Totem Pole From Tuxican (Takjikâaan), Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska,â led by Dr. Stephen Langdon…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-11-04/native-american-heritage-month-lectures-begin-wednesday-shi#.VGOiI_l4p1U">more</a>) (11-4-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Archives facility in Juneau </strong><strong>to</strong><strong> be named for Tlingit hero</strong><br />INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY<br />William L. Paul, Sr., a pioneering Tlingit civil rights leader recognized as the father of the Alaska Native land claims, will have an archives facility named after him. The William L. Paul, Sr. Archives in Juneau, Alaska houses 3,100 linear feet of historical and archival manuscripts and papers, photographs, and audio and visual recordings, reports the Juneau Empire…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/10/21/archives-facility-juneau-be-named-tlingit-hero-157455">more</a>) (10-22-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/102214/new_1223950159.shtml">A Day in the Life of: Kingeisti David Katzeek</a></strong><br />By Mary Catharine Martin<br />Capital City Weekly<br />Every time Kingeistà David Katzeek speaks to young people – which is quite often – he asks them the same question.”When I go into the Juneau School District, I ask them how many of them were told ‘i yák’ei’ – you are good. There is nothing you can’t do. There is nothing you can’t learn,” he said.<br />The answer is always no one, not that day. Then he tells them “i yák’ei’.” Katzeek is passionate about sharing traditional stories, the Tlingit language, and through them, knowledge – scientific and otherwise – passed down for millennia….(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/102214/new_1223950159.shtml">more</a>) (10-22-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/article/20141020/native-language-theme-elders-and-youth-conference">Native language is theme of Elders and Youth Conference</a></strong><br />By Lisa Demer<br />ALASKA DISPATCH NEWS<br />The importance of Alaska Native languages to culture, identity and individual well-being took center stage Monday as the First Alaskans Institute’s Elders and Youth Conference — the precursor to the biggest Native gathering of the year — began in Anchorage. A teenager from Yakutat gave his keynote address before a packed crowd of hundreds in Tlingit, then English, explaining that some Native words cannot be translated. A fluent Inupiaq speaker from Nome expressed regret to everyone who never had the chance to learn their Native language, and to those who decades ago were punished for speaking it. Members of the state’s new Alaska Native language council urged that more be done to study and restore languages, as a way to save the culture…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/article/20141020/native-language-theme-elders-and-youth-conference">more</a>) (10-21-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-10-20/photos-careful-careful#.VEVMifnF98E"><strong>Photos: Careful, careful</strong></a><br />By Sarah Cannard<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Construction workers collaborate Friday to install a glass panel along the outside of the Walter Soboloff Center, currently under construction in downtown Juneau…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-10-20/photos-careful-careful#.VEVMifnF98E">more</a>) (10-20-14)</p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/neighbors/2014-10-19/juneau-archives-facility-be-named-tlingit-hero#.VEapzfl4p1U">Juneau archives facility to be named for Tlingit hero </a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The archives facility at the new Walter Soboleff building will be named for Tlingit Native rights hero William L. Paul, Sr., who was a major force in Alaska history and is recognized as the father of the Alaska Native land claims. The William L. Paul, Sr., Archives houses 3,100 linear feet of archival and historical manuscripts and papers, photographs, and audio and visual recordings. The archives also include historical documents, manuscripts, and papers of individuals of importance to both the indigenous people of the region and Alaska history, and over 60,000 historic photographs. The Archives currently houses more than 5,000 historical and contemporary audio and audiovisual recordings documenting the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian language, culture and history. Most of these recordings are wholly unique and cannot be found in other libraries, archives, or repositories…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/neighbors/2014-10-19/juneau-archives-facility-be-named-tlingit-hero#.VEapzfl4p1U">more</a>) (10-19-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/10/15/archives-walter-soboleff-building-named-native-rights-attorney-lawmaker/"><strong>Archives at the Walter Soboleff building to be named after Native rights attorney, lawmaker</strong></a><br />By Jennifer Canfield<br />KTOO<br />The Sealaska Heritage Institute announced today that it will name the archives facility at the Walter Soboleff Center after a Tlingit Native rights figure. William L. Paul Sr. was the stateâs first Alaska Native attorney and first Alaska Native legislator. He was active in fighting against school segregation, and for the citizenship rights of Natives and their right to vote…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/10/15/archives-walter-soboleff-building-named-native-rights-attorney-lawmaker/">more</a>) (10-15-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/article/20141012/standing-tall-guardians-alaska-totem"><strong>Standing tall: Guardians of the Alaska totem</strong></a><br />By Steve Quinn<br />Alaska Dispatch News<br />
2039T.J. Young always has an eye out for the perfect tree, particularly, but not exclusively, red cedar. The straighter the better. Once he sees it, his mind begins racing with series of questions. How tall is it?<br />How wide is it? If he were to take it, on what side would he want it dropped? His older brother Joe Young has a few questions of his own. Just how big of a totem pole can he and T.J. produce from this tree? What other indigenous artwork — a mask, a fish hook, a panel — can the rest of the tree provide these Haida artists?…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/article/20141012/standing-tall-guardians-alaska-totem">more</a>) (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/slideshow/photos-tj-and-joe-young-revitalize-totem-carving">Photos</a>) (10-12-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>It Takes an (Indian) Village: Massive Totem Poles Raised in Juneau</strong> [Video, Photos]<br />INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY<br />It had been a long time coming, and when Sealaska Heritage Institute finally raised the new totem poles at the Gajaa Hit building in the Indian Village at Juneau, Alaska, the assembled crowd of 500 knew they were witnessing a grand historical and artistic moment. The organization released the following details about the proceedings…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/10/10/it-takes-indian-village-massive-totem-poles-raised-juneau-video-photos-157282">more</a>) (10-10-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-10-09/four-alaska-museums-receive-federal-grants#.VDgHL_nF98E">Four Alaska museums receive federal grants</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Four Alaska museums have received 2014 grants by the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. Here’s a look at the recipients and their projects⦠Sealaska Corporation, Juneau (award amount: $49,860; matching amount: $52,719): Sealaska Heritage Institute will design an exhibit that showcases Tlingit Indian clan hats to educate the public about the functions, roles, and uses of clan hats todayâ¦(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-10-09/four-alaska-museums-receive-federal-grants#.VDgHL_nF98E">more</a>) (10-9-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-10-06/photos-work-art#.VDQVCvldUqx">Photos: Work of art</a></strong><br />By Michael Penn<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Haines artist Rob Goldberg masks a glass panel with a formline design by Northwest Coast art expert Steve Brown at the Walter Soboleff Center on Friday. Goldberg is sandblasting Brown’s designs into 36 panels to be used in the building’s outside canopy…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-10-06/photos-work-art#.VDQVCvldUqx">more</a>) (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/https:/www.facebook.com/juneauempire/photos/a.10151223129327458.483722.97778092457/10152760469382458/?type=1&theater">Front Page View</a>) (10-6-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/10/01/amid-modern-building-construction-tlingit-carver-keeps-traditional-method-alive/">Amid modern building construction, Tlingit carver keeps traditional method alive</a></strong><br />By Lisa Phu<br />KTOO<br />Like most construction projects, the building site of the Walter Soboleff Center in downtown Juneau is filled with modern power tools. But if you walk to one corner of the building, Tlingit carver Wayne Price has been texturing hundreds of board feet of red cedar using just one tool â an adze. To be more precise, itâs an elbow adze that Price made himself. âThe blade is made from a leaf spring out of a truck and the handle is made from the branch of an alder tree and itâs held together by string and a chunk of leather,â Price says…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/10/01/amid-modern-building-construction-tlingit-carver-keeps-traditional-method-alive/">more</a>) (10-1-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Gajaa Hit totem raising draws close to 500 spectators</strong><br />By Scott Burton<br />KTOO<br />Close to 500 community members gathered between Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall and Gajaa Hit on Monday to celebrate the raising of a new Eagle and Raven totem poles. Brothers Joe and T.J. Young began carving the 40 foot, red cedar poles <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/08/29/carvers-begin-work-to-replace-gajaa-hit-totem-poles-screen/">last September</a> to replace the two poles originally carved in 1977. Between their apprentices and others, T.J. Young says it was a collaboration. âWe got to talk to Nathan Jackson
2039who is a Tlingit artist down in Ketchikan. He came in and visited us for a while and gave us some pointers, and a handful of other artists came by and wished us good luck,â T.J. Young says…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/09/30/gajaa-hit-totem-raising-draws-close-500-specatators/">more</a>) (9-30-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-09-30/photo-watchful-bear#.VCr_u_ldUqw">Photo: Watchful bear</a></strong><br />By Peter Metcalfe<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />A black bear watches the raising of two totem poles outside of the Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall on Monday. Photographer Peter Metcalfe wrote: âThe bear stood there at the foot of the lawn for several minutes, ears perked and attention riveted on the drumming and chanting of the event”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-09-30/photo-watchful-bear#.VCr_u_ldUqw">more</a>) (9-30-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Photos: Totem pole raising</strong><br />By Michael Penn<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The Raven totem pole is carried to the front of the Gajaa HÃt building after the Eagle totem pole was set into place during a public ceremony to honor the Tlingit Auk Kwáan clans and long term residents of the Indian Village in Juneau on Monday. Carvers Joe and TJ Young of Hydaburg were on hand for the ceremony. The poles and house screen replace ones that had deteriorated to the point they posed safety issues. Sealaska Heritage Institute and the Tlingit and Haida Regional Housing Authority organized the project….(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/bit.ly/ZovILL">more</a>) (9-30-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Community invited to Gajaa Hit pole raising </strong><br /><em>Raven, Eagle totems first to be raised downtown since 2000 </em><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Two totem poles will be raised at the Gajaa Hit building in the Willoughby District Monday, an event that will be celebrated with a formal ceremony at 11:30 a.m. at the Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall. Wooshkeetaan (shark) clan spokesman Mike Tagaban, who helped organize the Gajaa Hit pole project through Sealaska Heritage Institute, encouraged widespread attendance for the raising. âThis is a positive event not just for the Auke village but for our whole community,â he said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/bit.ly/1DRJdTQ">more</a>) (9-29-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/outdoors/2014-09-26/climate-change-and-crabapples#.VCWwWPldUqw">Climate change and crabapples</a></strong><br />By Mary Catharine Martin<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The Pacific Northwestâs climate is changing, and those changes are affecting cultures closely aligned with the land. Victoria Wyllie de Echeverria, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oxford, began studying Pacific Northwest climate change through the lens of a fruit harvested by 37 Native cultures from Alaska to Oregon: the crabapple. Now, sheâs expanded to ecological changes on the Pacific Coast in general and is interviewing dozens of Alaska Native and Canadian First Nation elders to get a cultural, historical perspective on changes…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/outdoors/2014-09-26/climate-change-and-crabapples#.VCWwWPldUqw">more</a>) (9-26-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-09-25/eagle-and-raven-totem-poles-be-raised-monday#.VCQ-jvldUqw">Eagle and Raven totem poles to be raised Monday</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE STAFF REPORT<br />A public totem pole raising ceremony will be held Monday, Sept. 29, for two new poles, a Raven and an Eagle pole, created for the Gajaa Hit building in downtown Juneau. The ceremony — hosted by Indian Village Eagle and Raven clans, Sealaska Heritage Institute and the Tlingit and Haida Regional Housing Authority — will begin at 11:30 a.m. at the Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall (formerly ANB Hall) on Willoughby Avenue. âThe event is open to the public and the community is welcome to attend,â SHI President Rosita Worl said in a release. âWe hope a lot of people join us to celebrate this momentous occasion.â SHI advised the community that parking will be scarce̷
20390;(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-09-25/eagle-and-raven-totem-poles-be-raised-monday#.VCQ-jvldUqw">more</a>) (9-25-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-09-18/dream-team-assembled-soboleff-center#.VBsKxvldUqw">‘Dream team’ of artists assembled for Soboleff Center</a></strong><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Three major Northwest Coast Native art works will be permanently installed in Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs Walter Soboleff Center when construction is completed next year, and this week, SHI released the names of the artists who will create them. Labeled a âdream teamâ by SHI President Rosita Worl, the artists are Haida artist Robert Davidson, Tsimshian artist David A. Boxley and Tlingit artist Preston Singletary â three of the most highly regarded Northwest Coast Native artists working today. Through their artwork, the artists will represent the three indigenous cultures of Southeast Alaska…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-09-18/dream-team-assembled-soboleff-center#.VBsKxvldUqw">more</a>) (9-18-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-09-16/photo-panel-installation#.VBhjwfmwJNw">Photo: Panel installation</a></strong><br />By Michael Penn<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Marvin Willard, left, and Tim Lott, of the Tlingit-Haida Regional Housing Authority, install a new panel on the side of the Gajaa HÃt building in Juneauâs Indian Village on Friday. The panel replaces an older worn out one along with two totems poles recently finished by brothers TJ and Joe Young. The Gajaa Hit project has been a collaboration between Sealaska Heritage Institute and the Tlingit Haida Regional Housing Authority. A pole raising ceremony has been scheduled for noon on Monday, September 29…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-09-16/photo-panel-installation#.VBhjwfmwJNw">more</a>) (9-16-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-09-11/corbus-48m-donation-makes-huge-impact#.VBHJefmwJNw">Corbus’ $48M donation makes huge impact</a></strong><br /><em>Gift of stock to create new funds, strengthen organizations</em><br />By Melissa Griffiths<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The sale of Juneauâs local power company to a Washington-based company will provide the Juneau Community Foundation with approximately $48 million, thanks to the generosity of Alaska Electric Light & Power Owner and former President Bill Corbus and his wife, Katie. Corbus promised back in November 2013 to donate 90 percent of his shares to the foundation â at the time, the foundationâs director, Amy Skilbred, said she was shocked…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-09-11/corbus-48m-donation-makes-huge-impact#.VBHJefmwJNw">more</a>) (9-11-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-09-11/shi-sponsor-lecture-climate-change">SHI to sponsor lectgure on climate change</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor a noon lecture this month on climate change and its impact on Native cultures. Lecturer Victoria Wyllie de Echeverria, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oxford, will discuss how climate change is being perceived by indigenous people and how these changes are affecting cultural and biological diversity in the coastal environment of northwestern North America…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-09-11/shi-sponsor-lecture-climate-change">more</a>) (9-11-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Photo: Finishing touches</strong><br />By Michael Penn<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Donald Gregory applies a sealant Tuesday to two recently finished totem poles carved and painted by brothers TJ and Joe Young. The poles are replacing weathered poles at the Gajaa Hit building on Willoughby Avenue erected in 1977 to honor the Raven and Eagle clans of the Aakâw Kwáan Tlingit. A raising ceremony is being scheduled for late September…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/bit.ly/1AyUx2K">more</a>) (9-10-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/09/06/annenberg-foundation-returns-sacred-object-alaska-natives-156764"><strong>Secret bidder saves sacred object from auction for Alaska Natives</strong></a><br />
2039INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY<br />A major American foundation that anonymously purchased sacred objects during a fiercely contested auction in Paris last year has returned one of the pieces to Southeast Alaska Natives. The Annenberg Foundation is donating a Native panel to Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) that appears to be part of an old Tlingit bentwood box with a painted Chilkat design. Such a box would have held a clanâs sacred objects or possibly the paraphernalia of a shaman. The news that the piece was coming home stunned staff at SHI who were familiar with the controversial auction and tried to stop it, said SHI President Rosita Worl…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/09/06/annenberg-foundation-returns-sacred-object-alaska-natives-156764">more</a>) (9-8-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/opinion/2014-09-08/empire-editorial-thumbs-thumbs-down#.VA3gpflT68w"><strong>Empire Editorial: Thumbs up, thumbs down</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Thumbs up to the Annenberg Foundation. This week, it handed over a formline carved and painted wood panel to the Sealaska Heritage Institute. The panel was one of several pieces up for bid at a Paris auction house. For the past few years, the Annenberg Foundation has been helping repatriate Native art by purchasing it at foreign auctions, then giving the art to the group that created it. With so few surviving original Alaska Native artworks, itâs good to see another one made available to the public instead of being locked away in a private collection…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/opinion/2014-09-08/empire-editorial-thumbs-thumbs-down#.VA3gpflT68w">more</a>) (9-8-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/opinion/2014-09-07/empire-editorial-restoring-history-requires-many-small-steps#.VA3UaPlT68x">Empire Editorial: Restoring history requires many small steps</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />In 1899, a group of Seattle businessmen wanted a centerpiece for Pioneer Square. They took a steamship north to the Tlingit village of Tongass, chopped down a totem pole and erected it in Seattle to the applause of a large crowd. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tourists and businessmen treated Alaska Native culture as another resource to be extracted from the territory. Native art was exhibited at the 1876 Columbian exhibition in Philadelphia. Clan hats and regalia walked away with French visitors. Slowly, the tide that carried away so much Alaska Native heritage is starting to come back in…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/opinion/2014-09-07/empire-editorial-restoring-history-requires-many-small-steps#.VA3UaPlT68x">more</a>) (9-7-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/09/05/sacred-native-object-returns-home-southeast/">Sacred Native object returns home to Southeast</a></strong><br />By Lisa Phu<br />KTOO<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute president Rosita Worl flips through a printed catalog of items that were up for bid at a Paris auction house last December. She points to several Native items taken from Southeast Alaska a long time ago. âThat one. This is probably from the northern area. This is another Northwest Coast piece, another Northwest Coast piece, something that should be here at home,â says Worl. âThis makes me sad when I see them”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/09/05/sacred-native-object-returns-home-southeast/">more</a>) (9-5-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-09-04/shi-gets-surprise-donation#.VAiT5flT68w">SHI gets surprise donation</a></strong><br /><em>Carved wooden panel first purchased at Paris auction</em><br />By Melissa Griffiths<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Where does one find the greatest collection of Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian sacred objects? The answer, unfortunately, is not in clan houses around Southeast Alaska, or even in local collections. Thanks to a generous donation by the Annenberg Foundation, one more piece has been returned home. The formline carved and painted wood panel, which may have been part of a bentwood box, was one of two Native Alaskan pieces up for bid in December 2013 at a Paris auction house. Also for auction were 27 Hopi and Apache masks and sacred objects…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-09-04/shi-gets-surprise-donation#.VAiT5flT68w">more</a>) (9-3-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Two Alaska Native artifacts return home after clandestine auction bid by nonprofit</strong><br />By Sean Doogan<br />Alaska Dispatch News<br />Two Alaska Native artifacts have been returned to local Native organizations after some behind-the-scenes intervention from the U.S. State Department and a clandestine buy at a European auction by a Los Angeles-based nonprofit foundation. The artifacts — a small wooden mask believed to have been carved by members of the Chugach tribe, and part of a wooden box believed to be from the Chilkat Tlingit tribe — were returned to Alaska in August after being purchased at a Paris auction house. Some may call it serendipity, but people from the tribes where the artifacts were originally created before they were taken away hundreds of years ago might see some spiritual guidance involved in their repatr
2039iation to Alaska…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/article/20140902/two-alaska-native-artifacts-return-home-after-clandestine-auction-bid-nonprofit">more</a>) (9-3-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-08-28/songs-vision-and-experience#.U_9Zl_lT68w">Dauenhauer: “Songs of vision and experience”</a></strong><br /><em>Community members reflect on his life and work</em><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Richard Dauenhauer has been described by many titles: poet, translator, scholar, linguist, anthropologist historian, editor, educator, anthologist. And in Juneau, his home since 1983, also: mentor, colleague, neighbor, friend. Community members who shared their thoughts about Dauenhauerâs life and work following his Aug. 19 death went beyond those titles to describe a man who was both erudite and playful, a highly productive yet humble scholar whose work bears the imprint of two great gifts: the love of his wife, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, a Tlingit poet and his longtime collaborator; and a poetic sensibility, a keen awareness of how thought and language, language and culture, intertwine…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-08-28/songs-vision-and-experience#.U_9Zl_lT68w">more</a>) (8-28-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-08-28/thoughts-richard-dauenhauer#.U_--do1OVaQ">Thoughts on Richard Dauenhauer</a></strong><br />Compiled by Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Last week, community members were invited to share their personal reflections on Richard Dauenhauerâs life and work. Their responses follow…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-08-28/thoughts-richard-dauenhauer#.U_--do1OVaQ">more</a>) (8-28-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-richard-dauenhauer-20140824-story.html">Richard Dauenhauer dies at 72: Scholar of Tlingit language, culture</a></strong><br />By Jill Leovy<br />Los Angeles Times<br />A fish doesn’t jump in Tlingit, the native language of indigenous people of Southeast Alaska. It performs a feat no word in English can adequately express. The verb in Tlingit captures the instant when a fish breaks the surface, the sequence of sounds as it rises and the spray of water that spreads around it. That some modern-day Alaskans get frustrated as they search for English equivalents can be attributed in part to the work of Richard Dauenhauer, a linguist, anthropologist, playwright and former Alaska poet laureate who died Tuesday of cancer in Juneau, Alaska…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-richard-dauenhauer-20140824-story.html">more</a>) (8-24-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/08/21/partnership-language-love/">A partnership of language and love</a></strong><br />By Lisa Phu<br />KTOO<br />Dick Dauenhauer was teaching folklore at Alaska Methodist University in the early 1970s when he met student Nora Marks. Her friend Rosita Worl, now president of Sealaska Heritage Institute, was also a student. âHer and Dick just hit it off. I think they had the same kind of sense of humor as I recall. And that was when their work started,â Worl says. Dauenhauer and Marks married on November 28, 1973. She was 15 years older̷
20390;(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/08/21/partnership-language-love/">more</a>) (8-21-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/article/20140820/noted-alaska-historian-linguist-richard-dauenhauer-dead-72">Noted Alaska historian, linguist Richard Dauenhauer dead at 72</a></strong><br />By Mike Dunham<br />ALASKA DISPATCH NEWS<br />Former Alaska state poet laureate Richard Dauenhauer died of pancreatic cancer on Aug. 19 in Juneau. He was 72. A noted historian, linguist, editor and educator, Dauenhauer made particularly important contributions to the preservation of Tlingit lore and language. Rosita Worl, executive director of the Sealaska Heritage Institute, which published major work by Dauenhauer and his wife, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, said in an email that âDick Dauenhauerâs contributions to Tlingit culture are immeasurable. … He brought to life the words and wisdom of our ancestors that otherwise might have passed into oblivion but for his persistence in collecting the stories and his ability to transcribe and translate and publish the oral traditions of our ancestors. … His Tlingit language grammars have been significant in contributing to the survival of our language”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/article/20140820/noted-alaska-historian-linguist-richard-dauenhauer-dead-72">more</a>) (8-20-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-08-19/poet-translator-richard-dauenhauer-dies-72#.U_TMivldUqw">Poet, translator Richard Dauenhauer dies at 72</a></strong><br /><em>Poet, Tlingit translator Richard Dauenhauer dies of cancer</em><br />By Melissa Griffiths<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Southeast Alaska lost a poet, a translator, a scholar, a former poet laureate and a historian on Tuesday. Richard âDickâ Dauenhauer was all of these things and more in his lifetime, which ended after a battle with cancer. Dauenhauer was born in 1942 in Syracuse, N.Y., though he called Alaska home after moving to the state in the late 1960s. He married into and became an expert on the Tlingit nation of Southeast Alaska. He met his wife, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, at Alaska Methodist University in the mid-1970s. She is celebrated for many of the same contributions â the two often worked together…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-08-19/poet-translator-richard-dauenhauer-dies-72#.U_TMivldUqw">more</a>) (8-19-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/08/20/indian-village-totem-poles-come/"><strong>Indian Village totem poles come down</strong></a><br />By Jeremy Hsieh<br />KTOO<br />The two totem poles that stood for 36 years in Juneauâs old Indian Village have been hauled off. A work crew with a 12-ton boom truck pulled the delicate poles and hauled them to a warehouse Tuesday. They had deteriorated badly over the years, but were taken away more or less intact. Ricardo Worl is the president and CEO of The Tlingit-Haida Regional Housing Authority, which owns the Gajaa HÃt building where the totem poles stood…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/08/20/indian-village-totem-poles-come/">more</a>) (8-19-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/08/10/koocheitaa-teaching-tlingit-language-basketball/">Kooch’eit’aa: Teaching the Tlingit language through basketball</a></strong><br />By Casey Kelly<br />KTOO<br />On the basketball court at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau, a dozen middle and high school students warm up for their first day of camp. As they stretch near half court, Jessica Chester counts to 10 in Tlingit: âTléixâ, déix, násâk, daaxâoon, keijÃn, tleidooshú, daxa
2039dooshú, nasâgadooshú, gooshúk, jinkaat.â Chester teaches Alaska Native languages for the Juneau School District. Sheâs been helping out with Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs summer basketball camps since 2006. She says all of the drills incorporate at least some Tlingit…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/08/10/koocheitaa-teaching-tlingit-language-basketball/">more</a>) (8-10-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Kooch’eit’aa: Teaching the Tlingit language through basketball</strong><br />By Casey Kelly<br />National Public Radio (NPR)<br />On the basketball court at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau, a dozen middle and high school students warm up for their first day of camp. As they stretch near half court, Jessica Chester counts to 10 in Tlingit: âTléixâ, déix, násâk, daaxâoon, keijÃn, tleidooshú, daxadooshú, nasâgadooshú, gooshúk, jinkaat.â Chester teaches Alaska Native languages for the Juneau School District. Sheâs been helping out with Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs summer basketball camps since 2006. She says all of the drills incorporate at least some Tlingit…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=338918032&m=338918033&live=1">more</a>) (8-8-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/08/03/new-eagle-raven-totem-poles-rise-month/">New Eagle and Raven totem poles to rise this month</a></strong><br />By Jeremy Hsieh<br />KTOO<br />Haida carving brothers Joe and T.J. Young are back in Juneau to finish a pair of Eagle and Raven totem poles. About this time last year, the Hydaburg men and their apprentices were using axes and chainsaws to shape the red cedar logs. Friday, they were working with small hand tools. âAs you work your way, as you start roughing it out, youâll start getting â the toolsâll get smaller and smaller and smaller,â says T.J. Young. âAnd youâll do a lot more sharpening throughout the process.â Sealaska Heritage Institute commissioned the new poles to replace the deteriorating, 36-year-old ones in front of the Gajaa HÃt building off Willoughby Avenue…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/Haida%20carving%20brothers%20Joe%20and%20T.J.%20Young%20are%20back%20in%20Juneau%20to%20finish%20a%20pair%20of%20Eagle%20and%20Raven%20totem%20poles.">more</a>) (8-3-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/07/30/dr-walter-soboleff-day-bill-signed-law/"><strong>Dr. Walter Soboleff Day bill signed into law</strong></a><br />By Casey Kelly<br />KTOO<br />Gov. Sean Parnell has signed legislation making Nov. 14 Dr. Walter Soboleff Day in Alaska. About 100 of the late Tlingit elderâs family and friends gathered at Juneauâs Marine Park for the bill signing ceremony on Wednesday, where Soboleff was remembered as a man who spread love and good will to all Alaskans. The idea for a day honoring Soboleff first took off at the 2012 Alaska Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood Grand Camp convention. âWe were in Sitka at our 100th anniversary,â said Peter Naoroz, ANBâs 2nd Grand Vice President…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/07/30/dr-walter-soboleff-day-bill-signed-law/">more</a>) (7-31-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-07-24/behind-camera#comment-100676">Behind the camera</a></strong><br /><em>Researchers explore legacy left by Japanese-American photographer Seiki Kayamori</em><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />When Japanese-American photographer Seiki Kayamori died in 1941, he left behind a view of Yakutat and its residents that offers an intimate, surprisingly extensive visual record of the community he called home for nearly 30 years. One thing thatâs lacking, however, is Kayamoriâs own presence. Although his collection includes more than 700 images, only a few of the photographer are known to exist. Until recently, information about the photographer has also been scarce, existing for the most part in the memories and conversations of Yakutat residents, who have long valued the contributions Kayamori made to their personal and collective history…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-07-24/behind-camera#comment-100676">more</a>) (7-24-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/outdoors/2014-07-18/shi-aims-rebuild-stocks-culturally-archaeologically-indicated-levels-historical#.U81OJPldUqw"><strong>SHI aims to rebuild stocks to culturally, archaeologically indicated levels at historical locations</strong></a><br />By Mary Catharine Martin<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Archaeological records and cultural memory indicate that in addition to being more abundant in Southeast Alaska, herring spawning locations were once more consistent. Though the Alaska Department of Fish and Game says its data donât support either conclusion, a new program at the Sealaska Heritage Institute intends to restore herring to areas where they proliferated…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/outdoors/2014-07-18/shi-aims-rebuild-stocks-culturally-archaeologically-indicated-levels-historical#.U81OJPldUqw">more</a>) (7-18-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/07/17/alaska-museums-awarded-grants-for-exhibits-training-2/">Alaska museums awarded grants for exhibits, training</a></strong><br />By Heather Bryant<br />KTOO<br />Three Alaska groups have received more than $142,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The money will go toward a Tlingit clan hat exhibit in Juneau, the Whale House exhibit in Haines and a training workshop for small museums. The grant supports Native American and Native Hawaiian museum projects. Sealaska Heritage Institute President Rosita Worl says their grant will go toward the costs of an exhibit on the history and significance of Tlingit clan hats…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/07/17/alaska-museums-awarded-grants-for-exhibits-training-2/">more</a>) (7-17-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-07-17/summer-books-roundup#.U8f5jPldUqw">Summer books roundup</a></strong><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Itâs an exciting time to be a book lover in Alaska â the literary scene across the state seems to get better every year, with books by and about Alaskans released faster than most readers can possibly keep up with them. If you have a long flight or ferry ride planned for the coming weeks as part of a summer vacation, take advantage of the opportunity to check out what your fellow Alaskans have been up to. Hereâs a sampling of titles to get you started…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-07-17/summer-books-roundup#.U8f5jPldUqw">more</a>) (7-17-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/outdoors/2014-07-11/herring-search-spans-millennia#.U8AOavldUqw"><strong>Herring search spans millennia</strong></a><br />By Mary Catharine Martin<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Southeast Alaskaâs Pacific herring populations seem to be on the rebound, but even in fisheries regarded as healthy, some contend herring are significantly depleted from historical levels indicated by archaeological records and cultural memory. Herring have long been used by Tlingit, Haida and other Native peoples, who harvested eggs on kelp or hemlock branches hung in the water during a spawn, or gathered the fish themselves for meat, oil and bait. The commercial fishery wasnât managed like it is today until industrial fishing had been underway for decades…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/outdoors/2014-07-11/herring-search-spans-millennia#.U8AOavldUqw">more</a>) (7-11-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-07-08/hands-learning#.U7wd1_ldUqw">Hands-on learning</a></strong><br /><em>Carving project highlights modern aspects of apprenticeship tradition</em><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />
2039When Haida carvers Joe and TJ Young were teenagers in Hydaburg 20 years ago, apprenticeship opportunities there were scarce. To learn the basics of carving and design, they built on carpentry skills learned in high school and cultural knowledge passed on from their grandfather, Claude Morrison. The rest they picked up wherever they could. âMost recently, I apprenticed with Robert Davidson, but before that we kind of did a lot of it on our own,â TJ Young said. âWe never really got to apprentice under anyone. It would have been nice. It was trial and error for a long time, but weâre starting to understand a few things and learn from our mistakes”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-07-08/hands-learning#.U7wd1_ldUqw">more</a>) (7-8-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/outdoors/2014-07-04/herring-return-auke-bay#.U7x20vldUqw"><strong>Herring return to Auke Bay</strong></a><br /><em>Significant spawn for first time in decades</em><br />By Mary Catharine Martin<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />At the end of June, herring returned to Auke Bay to spawn in significant numbers for the first time in more than 20 years â and though the ultimate success of the eggs remains to be seen, itâs a promising sign for those working to increase herringâs abundance in Lynn Canal and Southeast Alaska. Lynn Canal herring stocks have been depressed for decades. For the last seven years until recently, first Lynn Canal and then Southeast herring stocks were under consideration for listing as an endangered species, but neither population was deemed distinct enough for the listing…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/outdoors/2014-07-04/herring-return-auke-bay#.U7x20vldUqw">more</a>) (7-4-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/neighbors/2014-06-29/celebration-thank-you-sealaska#.U7GTuPldUqw"><strong>Celebration thank you from SHI</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Thank you to everyone who helped to make Celebration 2014 happen. It was one of our best Celebrations ever and on behalf of Sealaska Heritage Institute, I thank the following people, organizations and businesses who helped make it come together: Sponsors: Copper ($10,000 and up): Sealaska, City and Borough of Juneau; Platinum ($5,000 – 9,999): Alaska Airlines, BP Alaska, Carla Kleefeld and Celeste Worl, Managed Business Solutions, LLC; Gold…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/neighbors/2014-06-29/celebration-thank-you-sealaska#.U7GTuPldUqw">more</a>) (6-29-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-06-19/master-carver-says-young-artists-should-do-their-homework-first#.U6m8_fldUqx">Master carver urges young artists to do their formline ‘homework’</a></strong><br /><em>Wayne Price, winner of five awards in SHI’s Juried Art Show last week, reminds students to look to the past</em><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br /><strong><em>Editor’s note</em></strong><em>: This story has been updated to correct a reporting error regarding Wayne Price’s clan affiliation. Price is a member of the Shark House in Kake.</em>Â Tlingit carver Wayne Price has a message for Southeast Alaskaâs Northwest Coast artists: Hold yourselves to the same standard of excellence that your ancestors did. âLong ago our ancestors had a real high artistic standard, and itâs always been my goal as an artist to maintain that high standard,â Price said Wednesday…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-06-19/master-carver-says-young-artists-should-do-their-homework-first#.U6m8_fldUqx">more</a>) (6-19-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/06/18/shi-raises-soboleff-center-funds-celebration/">SHI raises Soboleff Center funds during Celebration</a></strong><br />By Casey Kelly<br />KTOO<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute raised more than $75,000 last week during Celebration for the Walter Soboleff Center under construction in downtown Juneau. The nonprofit is about $2 million short of the $20 million it needs to pay for the building, which will house the instituteâs offices and collections. It also will feature space for SHIâs language program, art exhibits and an artist-in-residence program. The 29,000 square foot facility is expected to open by early 2015. âThis will help Juneau become the new Northwest coast art capital of the world,â said Sealaska Corp. board chair Albert Kookesh, who led a fundraising pitch from the Celebration stage on Saturday…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/06/18/shi-raises-soboleff-center-funds-celebration/">more</a>) (6-18-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/06/16/weaving-journey-change/"><strong>Weaving a journey of change</strong></a><br />By Lisa Phu<br />KTOO<br />In early 2011, Della Cheney started weaving a Ravenstail robe for her daughter in honor of her doctoral degree. She had weaved about a quarter of it, when she began to feel not right. âI knew something was wrong but I didnât know, so I went to get my yearly test and they found something abnormal,â Cheney says. She was diagnosed with endometrial cancer. She stopped weaving and had to have surgery and chemotherapy. A year later, Cheney went back to the robe and started over. This meant undoing 14 inches of weaving, more than a yearâs worth of work…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/06/16/weaving-journey-change/">more</a>) (6-16-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-16/75k-raised-soboleff-center-during-celebration#.U6mpNPldUqw"><strong>$75K raised for Soboleff Center during Celebration</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />More than $75,000 was raised during Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs Celebration 2014 for the Walter Soboleff Center, the Sealaska cultural center under construction downtown. The money will go toward the facilityâs construction, Sealaska board chairman Albert Kookesh said in a news release. âThe center will house the activities for the Sealaska Heritage Institute and perpetuate our heritage into the future,â he said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-16/75k-raised-soboleff-center-during-celebration#.U6mpNPldUqw">more</a>) (6-16-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-16/thumbs-thumbs-down#.U6m1o_ldUqx"><strong>Thumbs up, thumbs down</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Thumbs up to Celebration 2014. This four-day biennial event put on by Sealaska Heritage Institute brought together thousands of people to celebrate Alaska Native culture, and the result was breathtaking. Families â made up of many generations â all in regalia and songs as dances as old as time served as a reminder of the history of our region and the people that have always been here. Thank y
2039ou to those who traveled to Juneau to be a part of the celebration…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-16/thumbs-thumbs-down#.U6m1o_ldUqx">more</a>) (6-16-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-15/weaving-new-native-narrative-museums#.U6m0ePldUqw">Weaving a new Native narrative in museums</a></strong><br /><em>Portland Art Museum presenting Native art,voices</em><br />By Melissa Griffiths<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Who is the Indian in the museum? âThe narrative … is crafted largely by the museum, and not the Native communities,â Portland Art Museum Curator of Native American Art Deana Dartt said. Dartt is hoping to change how the Native story is told â and she thinks the Portland Art Museum is ready to do it. âIâm native, coastal Chumash from Santa Barbara,â Dartt said. âIâve always been interested in our art forms and our history and how museums represent us.â She said she grew up in a place, Los Angeles, where âIndians are invisible”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-15/weaving-new-native-narrative-museums#.U6m0ePldUqw">more</a>) (6-15-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/neighbors/2014-06-15/regalia-button-business-becomes-family-affair#.U6mp9vldUqx"><strong>Regalia button business becomes a family affair</strong></a><br /><em>Button Man trains Button Boy to take over family business</em><br />By Rebecca Salsman<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Small businesses often make people think of mom and pop shops passed down from one generation to the next. For lifelong Juneau resident Gary Waid, his story is a little different. When Alaska Native culture, particularly Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian, was âcoming back to lifeâ through a cultural revival, Waid began searching Ebay for regalia buttons. He collected mother of pearl buttons from the National Button Society and peopleâs old filing cabinets until he established his business 15 years ago, which has become a niche in the Native community…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/neighbors/2014-06-15/regalia-button-business-becomes-family-affair#.U6mp9vldUqx">more</a>) (6-15-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/14/jubilation-incarnate-watch-sealaskas-celebration-2014-honor-alaska-native-heritage-155305"><strong>Jubilation Incarnate: Watch Sealaska’s Celebration 2014 honor Alaska Native heritage</strong></a><br />INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY<br />The crowd of 2,000 danced, jingled and drummed their way to Juneauâs Centennial Hall Wednesday evening for Celebration 2014. And that was just the dancers. It was a Grand Entrance to beat all Grand Entrances, as thousands thronged to see the 50 dance troupes jump start the biennial festival known as Celebration on June 11. The processional was led by Saanya Kwaan, the Cape Fox dancers, and by now the Sealaskaâs biennial Celebration is in full tilt…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/14/jubilation-incarnate-watch-sealaskas-celebration-2014-honor-alaska-native-heritage-155305">more</a>) (6-14-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2014/06/14/3512864/wayne-price-sweeps-formline-division.html?sp=/99/369/"><strong>Wayne Price sweeps formline division in Sealaska art show</strong></a><br />By Mike Dunham<br />ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS<br />The winners of the Sealaska Heritage Institute’s seventh Juried Art Show and Competition were announced on Wednesday in Juneau. Juror David Boxley selected “Dancing Raven Hat” by Wayne Price as Best of Show. The same piece was the third-place winner in the Formline Art category, in which Price’s paddle titled “Quantum Raven” came in first and another of his pieces, “Mother Whale,” won second prize. In the Northwest Coast Customary Art division, Pauline Duncan’s “Raven’s Tail Set” was first, Price’s “Quantum Raven” was second and “Echoing Traditions,” a basket by Deborah Head-Aanutein, was third…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2014/06/14/3512864/wayne-price-sweeps-formline-division.html?sp=/99/369/">more</a>) (6-14-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-13/saanya-kw%C3%A1-takes-center-role-celebration-2014#.U6m5jfldUqx">Saanya Kwáan takes center role in Celebration 2014</a></strong><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Harvey Shields remembers attending the first Celebration in 1982 as a member of the Saanya <u>K</u>wáan (Cape Fox) Dancers, led by his mother, Martha Shields. More than three decades later, heâs here to lead Saanya Kwáan with his sister, Sarah Abbot, as official hosts of Celebration 2014. Shields said the group has been preparing since Celebration 2012, when their role as hosts was announced by Sealaska Heritage Institute. âWhen we learned weâd be the host for this year, we started our fundraisers to get as many dancers as we could,â he said. âOur dancers are in Anchorage, in Juneau, in Seattle, as far away as Virginia and s
2039ome in California. So we include them in on this if they can make it”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-13/saanya-kw%C3%A1-takes-center-role-celebration-2014#.U6m5jfldUqx">more</a>) (6-13-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-alaska-a-celebration-of-native-american-culture-and-dance/2014/06/14/0c5ff39e-f342-11e3-914c-1fbd0614e2d4_gallery.html#item1"><strong>Photo album of Celebration</strong></a><br />(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-alaska-a-celebration-of-native-american-culture-and-dance/2014/06/14/0c5ff39e-f342-11e3-914c-1fbd0614e2d4_gallery.html#item1">Photo album</a>Â on Celebration by Washington Post photojournalist Linda Davidson)…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-alaska-a-celebration-of-native-american-culture-and-dance/2014/06/14/0c5ff39e-f342-11e3-914c-1fbd0614e2d4_gallery.html#item1">more</a>) (6-14-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/06/13/sealaska-heritage-seeks-hub-northwest-coast-art/"><strong>Sealaska Heritage seeks to be the hub of Northwest Coast art</strong></a><br />By Lisa Phu<br />KTOO<br />Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs biennial Juried Art Show and Competition is raising the bar for Native artists in Southeast Alaska. This yearâs juror David Robert Boxley says the competition creates an environment for artists to constantly keep striving…David Robert Boxley says it was agonizing to pick the 10 winners of the seventh Juried Art Show and Competition from the roughly 30 pieces submitted. âThe winners were chosen in a way that I hope will show whatâs possible,â he says. Boxley is a Tsimshian artist from Metlakatla and the son of prominent carver David Boxley. His father just finished his 72nd totem pole. David R. Boxley started carving when he was six, learning from his father. He says Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs competition pushes the standard of art being made in Southeast Alaska…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/06/13/sealaska-heritage-seeks-hub-northwest-coast-art/">more</a>) (6-13-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-13/interactive-map-visualizes-tlingit-connection-land#.U5sps_ldUqw"><strong>Interactive map visualizes Tlingit connection to land</strong></a><br /><em>Taku River Tlingit names, stories and more on new interactive map</em><br />By Melissa Griffiths<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />One cannot separate Tlingit history from the land, and itâs never been easier to understand why, with a collaboration between the Taku River Tlingit First Nation and the University of British Columbia. During Celebration on Thursday afternoon, Nicole Gordon, of the Taku River Tlingit First Nation of Atlin, and Christine Schreyer, assistant professor of anthropology at UBC-Okanagan, presented âDemonstration of Taku River Tlingit First Nation Place Names Map and Website.â The lecture provided background information about the creation of the interactive map and a tutorial on its use…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-13/interactive-map-visualizes-tlingit-connection-land#.U5sps_ldUqw">more</a>) (6-13-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-13/photos-thursday-celebration#.U5soj_ldUqw">Photos: Thursday Celebration</a></strong><br />By Michael Penn<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Photos from Thursday’s Celebration events…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-13/photos-thursday-celebration#.U5soj_ldUqw">more</a>) (6-13-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktva.com/sealaska-southeast-celebration-photo-gallery-874/">Sealaska Southeast “Celebration” photo gallery</a></strong><br />By Rick Boots<br />KTVA-TV<br />The biennial âCelebrationâ â put on by Sealaska â kicked off Wednesday in Juneau. Events celebrating the arts, culture, language and history of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian people continue through Saturday…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktva.com/sealaska-southeast-celebration-photo-gallery-874/">more</a>) (6-12-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/06/12/tlingit-carver-wayne-price-takes-top-honor-celebration-art-show/">Tlingit carver Wayne Price takes top honor at Celebration art show</a></strong><br />By Lisa Phu<br />KTOO<br />Tlingit carver and artist Wayne Price of Haines took Best of Show in the Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs seventh Juried Art Show and Competition. Priceâs âDancing Raven Hatâ is a painted hat made of red cedar and otter fur. The piece also took third place in the Formline Art category. Priceâs other works â âQuantum Ravenâ Paddle and âMother Whaleâ Paddle took first and second places in Formline, the showâs newest category. Here are the complete results…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/06/12/tlingit-carver-wayne-price-takes-top-honor-celebration-art-show/">more</a>) (6-12-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/06/12/2000-dancers-make-grand-entrance-celebration/"><strong>2,000 dancers make a Grand Entrance to Celebration</strong></a><br />By Rosemarie Alexander<br />KTOO<br />The biennial festival is the largest cultural event in the state. Organized by Sealaska Heritage Institute, it brings multiple generations of Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people together to celebrate their culture. The Saanya Kwaan, Cape Fox dancers, were chosen to lead the processional of 50 dance groups in the Grand Entrance. Harvey Shields is the leader of the Chief welcome dance….(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/06/12/2000-dancers-make-grand-entrance-celebration/">more</a>) (6-12-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-06-12/juried-art-show-recognizes-exemplary-works#.U5nHBvldUqw"><strong>Juried Art Show recognizes exemplary works</strong></a><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />In introducing the winners of Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs seventh biennial Juried Art Show and Competition Wednesday evening, juror and Tsimshian artist David R. Boxley took a few moments to express his great passion for Northwest Coast Art. âThe true beauty of Northwest Coast Art is its great complexity, which is often mistaken for elegant simplicity,â he said. âIt isnât simple. The two-dimensional, sculptural and woven work of our ancestors is as sophisticated as any great art form in the history of the world”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-06-12/juried-art-show-recognizes-exemplary-works#.U5nHBvldUqw">more</a>) (6-12-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-12/photos-celebration#.U5nGUvldUqw">Photos: Celebration</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The Sealaska Heritage Institute 2014 Celebration officially kicked of Wednesday in Juneau. Many gathered for the unofficial start of the event at Sandy Beach, to welcome canoes from various Southeast Alaska communities. Later, in downtown Juneau, the event officially kicked off with the Grand Entrance parade into Centennial Hall…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-12/photos-celebration#.U5nGUvldUqw">more</a>) (6-12-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/06/11/nations-childrens-dance-group-engenders-cultural-identity/"><strong>All Nations Children’s dance group fosters cultural identity</strong></a><br />By Scott Burton<br />KTOO<br />Celebration begins this evening at 6 oâclock with the Grand Entrance procession to Centennial Hall. The four-day cultural event of Southeast Alaska Natives includes 50 dance groups. Among them is All Nations Childrenâs Dance Group of Juneau. The group formed in 1995 and has about 80 members. I attended a recent practice and learned that singing and dancing is a foundation for much more…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/06/11/nations-childrens-dance-group-engenders-cultural-identity/">more</a>) (6-11-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-11/more-dance#.
2039U5iFHPldUqw">More than dance</a></strong><br /><em>Jameses teach history, culture through movement and song</em><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The floorboards of Lyle and Kolene Jamesâ living room vibrated to the rhythm of drum-beats and the foot-falls of more than 40 Woosh.ji.een dancers Sunday afternoon during a high-energy rehearsal for Celebration, Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs biennial dance and cultural festival. With their performances only days away, there was much to be done…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-11/more-dance#.U5iFHPldUqw">more</a>) (6-11-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140627060334/http://juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-08/haida-author-pens-first-childrens-book-killer-whale-eyes" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Killer Whale Eyes</strong></a><br />By Emily Russo Miller<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Haida author pens her first children’s book: Story telling, booksigning to take place during Celebration<br />As a little girl, Sondra Simone Segundo spent her summers in Hydaburg where her grandmother and great-grandmother lived. There, she heard Haida stories passed down from generation to generation about her ancestors. One story struck her in particular. Her uncle regaled her with the tale about a family member who 500 years ago left home to work for the settlers who came to Southeast Alaska. His family was fearful, as many others had gone and never returned…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-08/killer-whale-eyes#.U5iZJvldUqw">more</a>) (6-8-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/celebration"><strong>Celebration 2014 Special Section</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />(6-8-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-06/clarence-jacksons-speech-celebration-2002#.U5iH1fldUqx">Clarence Jackson’s speech from Celebration 2002</a></strong><br />Transcribed by Ishmael Hope, edited by Keri Eggleston and Xh’unei Twitchell<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />This speech was given by Clarence Jackson (Asxâaak, GastÃn, Daanaawú, Tá Gooch) of the Tsaagweidà clan, a beloved Tlingit Elder and leader, a Sealaska board member and chairman of the Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs Council of Traditional Scholars. Clarence had intended to give a closing speech during Celebration 2002, but because it was late and time was running short, he decided not to speak. He later regretted that decision because of the meaningful content and message of his speech, and he chose to document this speech with SHI President Rosita Worl. Now, after Clarenceâs passing and the passing of so many of our treasured cultural leaders, his words are timely and ring true. The Sealaska Heritage Institute is honored to share Clarenceâs speech as he intended…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-06/clarence-jacksons-speech-celebration-2002#.U5iH1fldUqx">more</a>) (6-8-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-08/traditional-foods-modern-twist#.U5YuV_ldUqx">Traditional foods with a modern twist</a></strong><br />By Rebecca Salsman<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Historically, soapberry dishes were made at ceremonial gatherings and considered an uncommon treat. Thanks to the biennial event Celebration, people have the chance to make and taste the dish this week. Starting as small green and red dots, the soapberries will grow into large frothy desserts at 3 p.m. Thursday at the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council. Like popular Food Network shows, the dishes will be made in front of a live audience and the winners will receive a cash prize of $500, $250 or $100. Participants can also submit seaweed dishes for the other Traditional Food Contest, which will be judged at 7 p.m. Thursday at the JACC…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-06-08/traditional-foods-modern-twist#.U5YuV_ldUqx">more</a>) (6-8-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Juneau Afternoon</strong><br />By Shona Strauser<br />KTOO-FM<br />A conversation with SHI’s Sarah Dybdahl and Lee Kadinger on Celebration 2014 and the Walter Soboleff Center…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/05/28/juneau-afternoon-52915/">more</a>) (5-29-14) (Starts at 29:35)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-05-25/soboleff-center-takes-shape#.U4S3xI0U-Ul"><strong>Soboleff Center takes shape</strong></a><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The Walter Soboleff Center has quickly taken shape on the corner of Front and Seward Streets downtown, filling in the space once known as âthe Pitâ with a three-story, contemporary building designed to serve as a Northwest Coast cultural center for Sealaska Heritage Institute. Following the recent addition of 40-foot yellow cedar panels and large stretches of glass, the structure now looks fairly complete from the outside, less than 10 months after a groundbreaking ceremony was held on the empty lot where the center now stands. Massive cedar beams above the entrances are reminiscent of the roofline of a traditional clan house, hinting at the buildingâs function as a Native art and culture center. And thereâs much more to come, including exterior artwork that will be an unmistakable signal to visitors that the centerâs purpose and contents are unique to Southeast Alaska…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-05-25/soboleff-center-takes-shape#.U4S3xI0U-Ul">more</a>) (5-25-14) (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/slideshow/2014-05-27/slideshow-soboleff-center#slide-17">Slideshow</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-05-22/shi-hires-kari-groven-art-director#.U34rHvldV8M"><strong>SHI hires Kari Groven as art director</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has hired a new art director to manage and expand its art programs as the institute prepares to open the Walter Soboleff Center in Juneau next year. SHI hired Kari Groven, a well-known fixture in the Juneau arts community who has been instrumental in developing the Juneau Arts and Culture Center into one of the townâs most vibrant art hubs. The institute was searching for a candidate with very specific skills, and Groven was a near-perfect match for the position, said SHI President Rosita Worl in a release…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-05-22/shi-hires-kari-groven-art-director#.U34rHvldV8M">more</a>) (5-22-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-05-21/tlingit-clan-hat-sells-365000#.U34oL_ldV8M"><strong>Tlingit clan hat sells for $365,000</strong></a><br /><em>Southeast organizers raised more than $26k for failed bid</em><br />By Melissa Griffiths<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />
2039Despite the efforts of the organizers and many supporters, a Tlingit clan hat up for auction will not return to its home in Wrangell â at least not yet. It was with disappointment, but not despair, that Mike Aakâwtaatseen Hoyt announced on the Facebook page, âHelp Return A Sacred Tlingit Clan Hat Up For Auction,â that the Kiks.ádi clan hat Southeast Alaska residents tried to procure sold at Sothebyâs for $365,000. âThis isnât the end of the story. Sothebyâs doesnât get to decide that,â Hoyt wrote. âAs long as we hear the hat calling to us to come home, and we keep calling to it in our words and actions, weâll keep moving forward to that moment of return”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-05-21/tlingit-clan-hat-sells-365000#.U34oL_ldV8M">more</a>) (5-21-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/05/21/natives-rallying-rescue-sacred-tlingit-hat-auction-154963"><strong>Natives ralling to rescue sacred Tlingit hat from auction</strong></a><br />Indian Country Today<br />Today, May 21, at 2:30 PM eastern, Sotheby’s will auction a number of Native American items in a sale titled “Arts of the American West,” and a concerned group of Alaska Natives is working against the clock to return Lot 88 to its owners. The item is listed as “Rare Northwest Coast Polychromed Wood Clan Hat, Tsimshian or Tlingit,” and<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/arts-of-the-american-west-n09149/lot.88.html">the description at Sothebys.com</a>is pretty straightforward, concentrating on the materials and craftsmanship. No details of the hat’s provenance or meaning are provided.<strong> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.gofundme.com/9955sw">A page created to at GoFundMe.com</a>that seeks donations to buy the hat is more informative. It’s identified as “a sacred Tlingit clan hat of the Wrangell Kiks.ádi clan”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/05/21/natives-rallying-rescue-sacred-tlingit-hat-auction-154963">more</a>) (5-21-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/state/2014-05-16/when-auction-house-looks-tlingit-art-sacred-goes-sale#.U3Zg1PldV8M"><strong>When auction house looks to Tlingit art, the sacred goes on sale</strong></a><br /><em>Many in Southeast work to purchase clan hat to return it to its rightful home</em><br />By Melissa Griffiths<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />There are stories of wars fought over hats, Harold Jacobs said. Not just any hats â Tlingit clan hats carry the weight of history, the voices of ancestors and significance beyond what is easily fathomed in Western culture. Jacobs, Cultural Resource Specialist with Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, saw that a Tlingit hat would be on Sothebyâs New York auction block May 21. With not even a week until the auction, he and others with an interest in seeing the hat returned to its owners, thought to be the Kiks.ádi clan of Wrangell, are taking action. With several objects of Tlingit, Haida or Tsimshian origin featured in the Sothebyâs auction, it is important to understand why this hat has garnered the attention it has from people in the Tlingit community. âHats are the most important object any clan can have,â Jacobs said. He brought up the Tlingit concept of Haa Shagoon, which is defined as recognizing the bonds between our ancestors, current generation and future generations, according to a glossary on the Sealaska Heritage Institute site. âThis hat represents the clan,â Sealaska Heritage Institute Director Rosita Worl said..(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/state/2014-05-16/when-auction-house-looks-tlingit-art-sacred-goes-sale#.U3Zg1PldV8M">more</a>) (5-16-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.kcaw.org/2014/05/15/reviving-tlingit-language/"><strong>Reviving Tlingit language</strong></a><br />By KCAW News<br />Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs Tlingit Mentor Apprentice Program is designed to increase the number of fluent speakers under the age of 60. Program coordinator Jasmine James discusses how it works…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.kcaw.org/2014/05/15/reviving-tlingit-language/">more</a>) (5-15-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/https:/www.culturalsurvival.org/news/moment-has-come-us-save-our-tlingit-haida-and-tsimshian-languages">The moment has come for us to save our Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian languages</a></strong><br />By Ishmael Hope<br />CULTURAL SURVIVAL<br />âÃt Khuwaháa haa yoo xhâatángi wutusaneixhÃ.â âThe moment has come for us to save our language.ââ Joe Hotch, Gooxh Daakashú. In 1980, the Sealaska Corporation brought together Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian Elders in Sitka, Alaska, for a gathering of discourse, stories, and traditional songs and dances in the first Sealaska Elders Conference…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/https:/www.culturalsurvival.org/news/moment-has-come-us-save-our-tlingit-haida-and-tsimshian-languages">more</a>) (5-13-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/05/12/dauenhauers-teach-tour-guides-teach-tourists/"><strong>The Dauenhauers teach tour guides how to teach tourists</strong></a><br />By Emily Forman<br />KCAW<br />Two of greatest living scholars on Sitkaâs Russian and Tlingit past were in Sitka last week to train National Park rangers on the historic battles that took place here. Park rangers give programs, of course, but sometimes theyâll interact with visitors for only a few minutes at a time. So the challenge is: How do you teach visitors about the culture in a way that will have impact â when the most commonly-asked question is âWhereâs the bathroom?â Iâm on a bus tour. All the passengers are trained historical interpreters. And the tour guides are the leading scholars on the topic. They literally wrote the book. Dick: One of the earliest recordings of the history is from Sally Hopkins. And her daughter asked Nora if she would transcribe and translate thisâ¦Nora and Dick Dauenhauer are the authorâs of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/shop/book_russians_tlingit_america_2008.htm">Russians in Tlingit America</a> â the definitive work on the battles of 1802 and 1804…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/05/12/dauenhauers-teach-tour-guides-teach-tourists/">more</a>) (5-12-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/neighbors/2014-05-11/sealaska-issues-367-scholarships-college-students#.U3Dylo0U8y8"><strong>Sealaska issues 367 scholarships to college students</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska will award $468,000 in scholarships for the 2014 â 2015 academic year. Since inception, Sealaska has directed more than $12 million towards scholarships. âSealaskaâs commitment to education is a source of pride and makes a positive impact on people,â said Sealaska President and CEO Chris E. McNeil, Jr. âOur pledge to supp
2039ort shareholder education is an investment in our future and to building leaders.â The scholarship program is supporting 367 college students this year. 2014 scholarship funds were derived from a $293,000 contribution from Sealaska Timber Corporation, a benefit of the timber harvest program. The remaining $175,000 comes from the education endowment for a total of $468,000. Sealaska Heritage Institute was established to support and administer cultural and educational programs, including Sealaska scholarships…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/neighbors/2014-05-11/sealaska-issues-367-scholarships-college-students#.U3Dylo0U8y8">more</a>) (5-11-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.wrangellsentinel.com/story/2014/05/08/news/traditional-memorial-ceremonies-return-to-wrangell/2114.html"><strong>Tlingit memorial ceremonies return to Wrangell</strong></a><br />By Rosita Worl<br />Wrangell Sentinel<br />Editor’s note: An Alaska Native memorial ceremony was held in Wrangell the weekend of April 26. The Sentinel offered to cover the event, but was told local organizations wished to avoid media coverage of an intensely private, invitation-only event. What follows is one person’s perspective on the events and a brief explanation of the ceremony’s cultural significance. The single event was actually comprised of two events, one for each of the two Tlingit moieties (Raven and Eagle/Wolf) hosted by members of the other moiety…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.wrangellsentinel.com/story/2014/05/08/news/traditional-memorial-ceremonies-return-to-wrangell/2114.html">more</a>) (5-8-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-05-08/tlingit-clans-bring-back-traditional-memorial-ceremonies-wrangell#.U2ux9vldV8M"><strong>Tlingit clans bring back traditional memorial ceremonies to Wrangell</strong></a><br />By Rosita Worl<br />FOR THE JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Recently, for the first time in many decades, Tlingit clans in Wrangell held a ku.éexâ (memorial ceremony). These ancient ceremonies, which are still practiced by clans regionwide, were almost stamped out of Wrangell after U.S. military strikes there in the 1800s and a long period of cultural suppression. But on April 26, the ku.éexâ returned. It was truly an historic event. I was honored to attend the Kiks.ádi and the TeeyhÃttaan ku.éexâ, during which Richard Rinehart Jr., and Michael John Hoyt were appointed and validated as Sháade háni (clan leaders) of their respective clans. Richard also received the name of Tashee, which was held by former clan leader Herb Bradley…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-05-08/tlingit-clans-bring-back-traditional-memorial-ceremonies-wrangell#.U2ux9vldV8M">more</a>) (5-8-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/neighbors/2014-05-04/southeast-student-awarded-ethel-montgomery-scholarship#.U2k66o0U8y9"><strong>Southeast student awarded Ethel Montgomery Scholarship</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The Friends of the Alaska State Libraries, Archives and Museum has announced Alyssa R. Peterson of Kake as the recipient of a $2,000 Ethel Montgomery Scholarship. The scholarship will go toward her education at San Jose State University where she is working on a Masterâs degree in Library and Information Science with an emphasis in archiving. Peterson received her bachelors degree in liberal arts with an emphasis in anthropology and Northwest Coast art from the University of Alaska Southeast. She has worked with the Sealaska Heritage Institute Archives…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/neighbors/2014-05-04/southeast-student-awarded-ethel-montgomery-scholarship#.U2k66o0U8y9">more</a>) (5-4-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>(SHI) seeks accounts of 1869 bombardment</strong><br />By Brian O Connor<br />Wrangell Sentinel<br />It started as a domestic dispute brought on by a rowdy Christmas party at a nearby American fort in 1869, according to Tlingit witnesses. Eventually, it spiraled into the full-scale artillery bombardment of native villages around Wrangell, and resulted in the deaths of at least three (possibly more) Tlingit clansmen, a white business owner living near the fort, and a womanâs severed finger. The discrepancy in casualty stems from the tendency of Tlingit oral histories to employ tales like those of the Wrangell bombardment as moral lessons, according to Zachary Jones, in town this week to seek additional Tlingit accounts of the bombardment, as well as re
2039count his anthology of Tlingit accounts of the bombardment. Jonesâs work is funded in part by the National Park Serviceâs American Battlefield Preservation Program, which aims to record and preserve historic battlefields around the US. (Jones) previously visited the community in 2012. His primary job is as an archivist and collections manager for Sealaska (Heritage Institute)…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.wrangellsentinel.com/story/2014/05/01/news/sealaska-seeks-accounts-of-1869-bombardment/2100.html">more</a>) (5-1-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.kcaw.org/2014/04/28/project-to-restore-herring-starting-with-sitka/"><strong>Project to restore herring, starting with Sitka</strong></a><br />By Emily Forman<br />KCAW<br />Before statehood and the advent of scientific management, Southeast Alaskaâs herring populations were harvested â and depleted â without much thought for the future. Herring reduction plants were numerous in the region in the early twentieth century, but the industry was short-lived. Many believe the herring population in Sitka Sound now is a fraction of what it was in those days, and wonder if herring stocks â like salmon â can be restored. A recent grant intends to launch that effort…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.kcaw.org/2014/04/28/project-to-restore-herring-starting-with-sitka/">more</a>) (4-28-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/04/26/remaining-tlingit-items-yale-cause-uproar-154614"><strong>Remaining Tlingit items at Yale cause uproar</strong></a><br />By Christina Rose<br />INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY<br />When stories of stolen Tlingit objects at the Yale Peabody Natural History Museum hit the press this week, museum officials came under fire. Yale was not alone in having these kinds of items in their collection. In 1899, the Harriman Expedition, loaded with scientists, artists, and collectors ransacked an Alaskan Tlingit village, abandoned following a small pox epidemic. They brought the items back and distributed them to museums all over the country…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/04/26/remaining-tlingit-items-yale-cause-uproar-154614">more</a>) (4-26-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktuu.com/video/ch-2-news-weekend-edition-apr-20/25577024"><strong>Staying connected with Native culture</strong></a><br />KTUU-TV<br />Today was the final day of a four day skin sewing workshop at the Alaska Native Heritage Center. Participants learned to stretch hides, cut patterns and hand sew hats and scarves made out of fur. It was put on by the Sealaska Heritage Institute as part of its Southeast Alaska Sustainable Arts project. One participant said she sewed as a kid and enjoyed making moccasins, scarves and hats with her grandmotherâ¦(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktuu.com/video/ch-2-news-weekend-edition-apr-20/25577024">more</a>) (<em>at the 04:45 mark</em>) (4-21-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/04/21/panel-questions-peabody-ownership/"><strong>Panel questions Peabody ownership</strong></a><br />By Stephanie Rogers<br />Yale Daily News<br />A recent campus debate about two carvings at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History has sparked a broader discussion about the role of museums to return culturally important objects. At a panel discussion in the Yale Hall of Graduate Studies last Tuesday afternoon, panelist Ashley Dalton â15 outlined the history of these objects and called upon museums like the Peabody to publicly address the historical trauma with which they are associated while still emphasizing native continuity and agency. Dalton and Peabody officials agree that the museum has no current legal obligation to return the objects. However, other speakers from University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Smithsonian
2039who presented on other topics related to artifact repatriation â the act of returning a cultural object home â argued that the museum should still be even more proactive to obtain formal written requests to return objects that are sacred to native groups…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/04/21/panel-questions-peabody-ownership/">more</a>) (4-21-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-04-21/bridge-between-generations-cyril-george-remembered#.U1VOavldV8M"><strong>A bridge between generations: Cyril George remembered</strong></a><br /><em>He was ‘one of the master storytellers of our time’</em><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Noted Tlingit elder Cyril George Sr., leader of the Deisheetaan (Raven/Beaver) clan from Khaakáakâw HÃt (Basket Bay Arch House) of Angoon, died April 15 in Anchorage at age 92. George, former mayor of Angoon, had lived in Juneau since 1975. George was remembered this past week for his gifts as an orator, storyteller and culture bearer, as well as for his role as a bridge between generations. Right up until the last months of his life, he regularly visited Tlingit language classrooms at the University of Alaska Southeast, documented Tlingit history and language through video recordings, and forged strong bonds with young people, including his 84 grandchildren, telling them clan stories over and over so they wouldnât be forgotten…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-04-21/bridge-between-generations-cyril-george-remembered#.U1VOavldV8M">more</a>) (4-21-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/04/21/alaska-native-languages-bill-passes-15-hour-sit/"><strong>Alaska becomes the second state to officially recognize indigenous languages</strong></a><br />By Casey Kelly<br />KTOO-FM<br />Supporters of a bill to make 20 Alaska Native languages official state languages organized a 15 hour sit-in protest at the Capitol on Sunday. Their dedication paid off early this morning, when the measure passed the Alaska Senate on an 18-2 vote. House Bill 216 passed the Alaska House of Representatives last week, 38-0. It now heads to Governor Sean Parnell for his signature. Dozens of people of all ages and races, many wearing their Easter finest, gathered in the hall outside Sen. Lesil McGuireâs office. The Anchorage Republican and chair of the Senate Rules Committee had the power to put House Bill 216 on the Senateâs calendar. But with end of the legislative session looming, the billâs supporters worried it was getting caught up in last-minute, behind-the-scenes politics…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/04/21/alaska-native-languages-bill-passes-15-hour-sit/">more</a>) (4-21-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Tribe seeks return of artifacts taken from abandoned Alaska village</strong><br />By Alex DeMarban<br />ALASKA DISPATCH<br />A prominent Southeast Alaska cultural leader says that Yale University’s museum that has held onto a pair of Tlingit carvings taken from an abandoned village more than a century ago should voluntarily return the items instead of waiting for tribal officials to make a formal request. Courtesy Yale University<br />An East Coast museum that houses a pair of Tlingit carvings taken from an abandoned village more than a century ago should voluntarily return the items instead of waiting for tribal officials to make a formal request, said a prominent cultural leader from Southeast Alaska.<br />At issue are a pair of large wooden crests on display at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140417/tribe-seeks-return-artifacts-taken-abandoned-village">more</a>) (4-19-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-04-17/shi-seeking-teachers-artists-jin%C3%A9it-art-academy#.U1AE_PldV8M"><strong>SHI seeking teachers, artists for Jinéit Art Academy</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute is seeking K-12 teachers and Native artists from seven communities to participate in the instituteâs Jinéit Art Academy in Juneau. The teachers and artists will collaborate during the academy to create kits, which will be used to teach formline design, a term that describes the intricate shapes found in the distinctive Northwest Coast art. The academy is scheduled June 2-6 in Juneau and is open to applicants in Angoon, Yakutat, Craig, Haines, Hydaburg, Ketchikan and Sitka. SHIâs Jinéit Art Academy will pay for travel and lodging…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-04-17/shi-seeking-teachers-artists-jin%C3%A9it-art-academy#.U1AE_PldV8M">more</a>) (4-17-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/gallery/photo/photos-native-culture-center-god-hates-154484"><strong>Photos of the Native culture center “God Hates”</strong></a><br />Indian Country Today<br />News broke this week of the Westboro Baptist Churchâs intentions of protesting the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage on Saturday June 1. The church is well known for its offensive protests. In the past it has celebrated the death of soldiers by protesting at their funerals (church members believe that soldiers defend what they see as the governmentâs pro-homosexual agenda when they defend the country) and railed about Godâs so-called hate toward homosexuals and more. Now, it has turned its attention to Native Americans…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/gallery/photo/photos-native-culture-center-god-hates-154484">more</a>) (4-17-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-04-10/shi-s
2039ponsor-latseen-leadership-academy#.U0bFSPldV8M"><strong>SHI to sponsor Latseen Leadership Academy</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Applications are now available for Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs annual Latseen Leadership Academy program. Applications will be accepted through May 16. SHI for the first time will offer the program in two Southeast Alaska villages. This yearâs academies for high school students will be held July 6-19 on Prince of Wales Island and July 19-31 in Angoon. Travel scholarships are available for students living outside of those areas. Students will be placed at one of the camps according to their proximity to the camp locations…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-04-10/shi-sponsor-latseen-leadership-academy#.U0bFSPldV8M">more</a>) (4-10-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-04-03/shi-sponsor-lecture-new-research-ancient-herring-populations#.Uz3OBfldV8M"><strong>SHI to sponsor lecture on new research on ancient herring populations</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor a lecture in April to unveil intriguing research on ancient herring populations in Alaska and Native peopleâs long-term reliance on the resource. Lecturer Dr. Madonna Moss, professor of anthropology at University of Oregon, has studied herring bones at 16 archaeological sites in Southeast Alaska that date back 10,000 years. In her talk, sheâll reveal some of her findings so far…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-04-03/shi-sponsor-lecture-new-research-ancient-herring-populations#.Uz3OBfldV8M">more</a>) (4-3-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/greenandgold.uaa.alaska.edu/blog/22762/speaking-tlingit/"><strong>Language nights ignite passion for Tlingit culture</strong></a><br />GREEN & GOLD NEWS<br />University of Alaska Anchorage<br />As a child, Nae Brownâs grandfather journeyed from Alaska to attend the Chemawa Indian Schoolâsharing the fate of thousands of Alaska Native children sent away to live in boarding schools that, too often, severely punished them for speaking their own languages or practicing their own customs. When Naeâs grandfather returned, years later, he no longer spoke the Tlingit tongue. âIt seemed like a big void,â said Nae, an Alaska Native Studies student at the University of Alaska Southeast. âYou canât have culture without language or language without culture. Itâs a connection to our ancestors”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/greenandgold.uaa.alaska.edu/blog/22762/speaking-tlingit/">more</a>) (3-19-14)</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.newsminer.com/features/sundays/community_features/alaska-artists-create-art-from-cultural-traditions/article_325f0258-b222-11e3-bbcb-001a4bcf6878.html"><strong>Alaska artists create art from cultural traditions</strong></a><br />NEWSMINER<br />By Theresa Bakker<br />Two pieces of artwork recently arrived at the University of Alaska Museum of the North from the same auction in Juneau â a blown glass sculpture called âCopper Totemâ and âSitka Petroglyph,â a beaded collar made of felted wool. Both pieces were purchased in early February at an event sponsored by the Sealaska Heritage Institute in Southeast Alaska. One of the objects will be catalogued and included in the museumâs ethnology collection. The other will become part of the collected works in the museumâs fine arts department…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.newsminer.com/features/sundays/community_features/alaska-artists-create-art-from-cultural-traditions/article_325f0258-b222-11e3-bbcb-001a4bcf6878.html">more</a>) (3-23-14)</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2014/03/17/perpetuating-culture-restoring-language-the-sealaska-heritage-institute-and-tlingit/"><strong>Perpetuating culture, restoring language: Tlingit and the Sealaska Heritage Institute<
2039/strong></a><br />Rising Voices<br />âWe donât want what you did here to only echo in the air, how our grandfathers used to do things⦠Yes. You have unwrapped it for us. That is why we will open again this container of wisdom left in our care.â This quote by George Davis (KichnáalxâLkâaanaaw) of Angoon led the opening Sealaska Heritage Institute conference in 1980. The organisation exists to âperpetuate the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures,â with a more recent primary focus on language restoration…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2014/03/17/perpetuating-culture-restoring-language-the-sealaska-heritage-institute-and-tlingit/">more</a>) (3-17-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/03/15/juneau-starts-map-future/"><strong>Juneau starts to map out its future</strong></a><br />By Lisa Phu<br />KTOO<br />Where should Juneau be in 10 years? Thatâs the big question prompting the development of the Juneau Economic Plan, which will lay out the capital cityâs economic future. Jim Calvin of the McDowell Group explained during last weekâs Chamber of Commerce Roundtable Lunch how he and his team will figure out the answer…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/03/15/juneau-starts-map-future/">more</a>) (3-15-14)</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-03-06/shi-sponsor-native-artist-market#.UxiwFvldV8M"><strong>SHI to sponsor Native Artist Market</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />SHI will sponsor a Native Artist Market in June during Celebration 2014. Native artists should apply now for a table at the market, which will be held June 12-14 at Sealaska Plaza in downtown Juneau. To apply for a table, contact Shaadooâtlaa at 586-9129 or <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>. Space is limited to forty tables…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-03-06/shi-sponsor-native-artist-market#.UxiwFvldV8M">more</a>) (3-6-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-03-06/shi-extends-deadline-juried-art-competition#.UxivbfldV8M"><strong>SHI extends deadline for juried art competition</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has extended the application deadline for the 2014 Juried Art Competition and Show to April 7. Artists may submit up to three pieces for review. Jurors select artwork based on high quality and integrity of Northwest Coast art in three categories: customary, customary-inspired, and 2D formline design. Selected artwork will be on display during Celebration (June 11-14) and eligible for prizes. SHI will make the following awards for best of show and in three categories…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-03-06/shi-extends-deadline-juried-art-competition#.UxivbfldV8M">more</a>) (3-6-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-02-21/shi-accepting-applications-juried-art-competition#.UweI5vldV8M"><strong>SHI accepting applications for juried art competition</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute is accepting applications for its seventh biennial Juried Art Show and Competition during Celebration 2014, scheduled June 11-14 in Juneau. SHI has added a new category this year: 2D formline design, meaning formline on a flat surface such as a print of formline…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-02-21/shi-accepting-applications-juried-art-competition#.UweI5vldV8M">more</a>) (2-21-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/021914/out_1194494080.shtml"><strong>Live stream-ing UAS program brings Southeast’s outdoors into the classroom</strong></a><br />By Mary Catharine Martin<br />Capital City Weekly<br />What are the physics of a Tlingit canoe? What is the chemistry of smoking fish?<br />If you’re teaching science, technology, reading, engineering, art and math, why not teach them through a lens of place and culture? The STREAM institute, whose name comes from the initials of the subjects it teaches, is an initiative by the University of Alaska Southeast and partners. Its aim is to create school lessons specific to Southeast Alaska…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/021914/out_1194494080.shtml">more</a>) (2-19-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Thank you for making SHI’s Tináa Art Auction a success</strong><br />Capital City Weekly<br />Thank you community of Juneau and the people who attended for making SHI’
2039s Tináa Art Auction a success. Thank you to the people who sponsored the event, bought tickets, made donations at the event, and purchased art and other items up for auction. Because of you, we raised more than $300,000 for the construction of the Walter Soboleff Center. Great thanks to the following who made the auction successful…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/021214/new_1193493264.shtml">more</a>) (2-12-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-02-06/place-based-fashion#.UvPUqfldV8M"><strong>Place-based fashion</strong></a><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />2014 is already shaping up to be a stimulating year for Juneau residents interested in fashion design â particularly in terms of fashion that carries a strong sense of place…The concept of drawing on the natural world and on cultural history to inform clothing design was also prominently featured in a fashion show this past weekend as part of Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs Tináa Art Auction. But in this case, the natural world was represented not only in imagery, but in the materials the artists used to create their pieces. The artistsâ links to their cultural history and identity were much more explicit in this venue, collectively reflecting a pride in Alaskaâs indigenous cultures…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-02-06/place-based-fashion#.UvPUqfldV8M">more</a>) (2-6-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2014/02/03/3304837/inaugural-juneau-auction-draws.html"><strong>Inaugural Juneau auction draws big crowd</strong></a><br />Anchorage Daily News<br />JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) â A capacity crowd attended Sealaska Heritage Institute’s first art auction featuring works by northwest Native artists in Juneau, collectively raising more than $300,000 for an educational facility under construction. The Tinaa Art Auction Saturday night drew a sold-out, black-tie crowd of more than 300, the Juneau Empire (http://is.gd/fx8eUC) reported Monday. The auction title, Tinaa, is a Tlingit word referring to a traditional copper shield representing trade and wealth…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2014/02/03/3304837/inaugural-juneau-auction-draws.html">more</a>) (2-3-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Inaugural Juneau auction draws big crowd</strong><br />San Francisco Chronicle<br />JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) â A capacity crowd attended Sealaska Heritage Institute’s first art auction featuring works by northwest Native artists in Juneau, collectively raising more than $300,000 for an educational facility under construction. The Tinaa Art Auction Saturday night drew a sold-out, black-tie crowd of more than 300, the Juneau Empire (http://is.gd/fx8eUC) reported Monday. The auction title, Tinaa, is a Tlingit word referring to a traditional copper shield representing trade and wealth…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sfgate.com/news/article/Inaugural-Juneau-auction-draws-big-crowd-5200150.php">more</a>) (2-3-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-02-03/tin%C3%A1-art-auction-big-success#.UvEiBDZvwy9"><strong>Tináa Art Auction a big success</strong></a><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The artwork on view at Saturday nightâs Tináa Art Auction at Centennial Hall highlighted the vibrancy and range of whatâs been happening recently in the world of Northwest Coast art, while paving the way for a project that will help carry that energy forward into the future. Tináa, Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs first-ever art auction, drew a sold-out, black-tie crowd of more than 300 people, who collectively raised more than $300,000 for the Walter Soboleff Center, currently under construction on Front Street downtown. The building, named for a highly influential Tlingit elder and spiritual leader who died in 2011 at age 102, will house an array of art programs, as well as performance and exhibit spaces and a retail shop…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-02-03/tin%C3%A1-art-auction-big-success#.UvEiBDZvwy9">more</a>) (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/m.juneauempire.com/slideshow/2014-02-03/slideshow-tinaa-art-auction#slide-1">Slideshow</a>) (2-3-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Empire Editorial: The power of language</strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Language influences much of our everyday lives, from the depth of how we express ourselves to the way in which we view the world. For thousands and thousands of Alaska Natives, their language was taken from them and replaced with English decades ago. When a language becomes nearly extinct, the cultural tie that links a group of people to their heritage is weakened. A new program by the Sealaska Heritage Institute is making str
2039ides to strengthen that bond by revitalizing the Tlingit language, which today is only spoken by about 200 people, according to SHIâs Rosita Worl…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/m.juneauempire.com/opinion/2014-01-31/empire-editorial-power-language#.UuvXlPldV8M"><strong>more</strong></a>) (1-31-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/012914/ae_1191577138.shtml"><strong>SHI begins 3-year Tlingit language mentor/apprentice pairing</strong></a><br />By Mary Catharine Martin<br />Capital City Weekly<br />Tlingit elders and language learners gathered at the Sealaska Heritage Institute at the end of January to begin a project that’s been long in the making: Tlingit language mentor and apprentice pairings.<br />Formally called “Bridging Challenges to Fluency through Partnerships: A Tlingit Mentor-Apprentice Language Program,” the project pairs elders and apprentices from Yakutat, Sitka and Juneau for a three-year language learning project.”I’m excited to hear our language alive,” said SHI Director Rosita Worl in opening comments for the orientation and training workshop. “Every time we lose a speaker, it hurts us all, but we should also be celebrating that as each day goes by, our language becomes stronger.”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/012914/ae_1191577138.shtml">more</a>) (1-29-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/012914/new_1191576848.shtml"><strong>A day in the life of: Ka Seix Selina Everson</strong></a><br />By Mary Catharine Martin<br />Capital City Weekly<br />Ka Seix Selina Everson was thirteen in the early 1940s, when she first went to Sheldon Jackson College, then a boarding school for Native children. She was born in Angoon, and grew up hearing her elders, her parents and her grandmothers speak Tlingit. Her grandmothers and her mother spoke only Tlingit. So it was a shock to arrive in Sitka and find the use of her language discouraged, even forbidden. But it’s a shock she doesn’t remember – it was just too painful.”I wiped it out of my mind,” she said. Her brothers, forbidden from speaking Tlingit on the campus “ground,” would jump up in the air to speak to each other…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/012914/new_1191576848.shtml">more</a>) (1-29-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/012914/new_1191576917.shtml"><strong>SHI accepting applications for college, voc-tech scholarships</strong></a><br />Capital City Weekly<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute is accepting scholarship applications for the 2014-2015 school year.<br />The deadline to apply is March 1. However, the institute is offering a $50 incentive to those who complete their scholarship application on or before Feb. 1 and who are accepted as scholarship recipients; if selected as a recipient, the $50 will be included in their scholarship award. Scholarships must be filled out and submitted online from SHI’s website…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/012914/new_1191576917.shtml">more</a>) (1-29-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>New program pairs elders, students in hope of restoring Tlingit language</strong><br />By Laurel Andrews<br />ALASKA DISPATCH<br />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 advanced learners of the language. On Tuesday, Sealaska Heritage Institute announced the six apprentice-mentor teams that will spend the next three years working together. Apprentices will be paired with elders in the communities of Sitka, Yakutat and Juneau, working toward fluency in the language…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140123/new-program-pairs-elders-students-hopes-restoring-tlingit-language">more</a>) (1-26-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-01-24/photo-canoe-give-me-hand#.UuLEOxBvxaQ"><strong>Photo: Canoe give me a hand?</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Donald Gregory, left, and Zachary Jones of the Sealaska Heritage Institute, unwrap a 14.5 foot long interwaterway canoe on Thursday carved by Tlingit artist Fred Bemis of Yakutat. The canoe will be up for sale at next weekendâs Tináa Art Auction held by SHI at Centennial Hall to help fund the new Walter Soboleff Center. Wings of Alaska donated a flight on Thursday to fly the canoe to Juneau…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-01-24/photo-canoe-give-me-hand#.UuLEOxBvxaQ">more</a>) (1-24-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/012214/new_1190779768.shtml"><strong>A day in the life: Joshua Jackson, kindergarten teacher, constant learner</strong></a><br />By Mary Catharine Martin<br />
2039CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY<br />Harborview kindergarten teacher Joshua Jackson makes managing a classroom of 20 five-year-olds look easy. On a recent day, the words on the board for “Walk to Read,” the name of a Juneau elementary school program that gathers students at a similar reading level from several different kindergarten classes, were “big,” “bin,” “a” and “is.” Led by “Mr. Josh,” the students spent time rearranging letters to form words, and words to form a sentence: “A bin is big.” Then they tried it on their own – a scene with kindergartener-friendly scissors, glue sticks, paper and lots of individual attention…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/012214/new_1190779768.shtml">more</a>) (1-22-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/012214/new_1190779757.shtml"><strong>SHI to sponsor skin sewing workshops in five communities</strong></a><br />CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor skin-sewing workshops in five communities in an effort to revitalize a traditional art form and to create a cottage industry in Southeast Alaska, according to a release from the Native corporation.<br />Through the program, called the Southeast Alaska Sustainable Arts Project, students in Angoon, Ketchikan, Haines, Anchorage and Petersburg will learn to stretch hides, cut patterns and hand-sew hats and scarves from furs. The first class is scheduled this month in Angoon, and after receiving numerous requests from people in Anchorage, SHI for the first time will sponsor a skin-sewing workshop there. Almost 2,000 Sealaska shareholders live in Anchorage and the surrounding area…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/012214/new_1190779757.shtml">more</a>) (1-22-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-01-23/shi-chooses-mentor-apprentice-teams-revitalize-tlingit-language#.UuFZmxBvxaQ"><strong>SHI chooses mentor-apprentice teams to revitalize Tlingit language</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has chosen six teams of Tlingit speakers and students who will hone their skills over the next three years in an effort to revitalize the Tlingit language. SHI chose mentor-apprentice teams in Sitka, Yakutat and Juneau and will train them on mentor-apprentice language methods and strategies later this month. The institute made Native language revitalization a priority in the 1990s and has cultivated a number of students, but itâs time to intensify that effort, said SHI President Rosita Worl…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-01-23/shi-chooses-mentor-apprentice-teams-revitalize-tlingit-language#.UuFZmxBvxaQ">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/opinion/2014-01-17/empire-editorial-nov-14-should-be-known-walter-soboleff-day#.Utlkap5vxaQ"><strong>Empire Editorial: Nov. 14 should be known as Walter Soboleff Day</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Nov. 14 could become known in Alaska as Walter Soboleff Day. We hope that it is. Lawmakers on both sides introduced legislation last week that would further cement the late Native elderâs place in history by commemorating the day he was born. It was on Nov. 14, 1908, that we were given Walter Soboleff, and from that day forth Alaska has been better off thanks to the roles he played, big and small…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/opinion/2014-01-17/empire-editorial-nov-14-should-be-known-walter-soboleff-day#.Utlkap5vxaQ">more</a>) (1-17-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-01-16/long-way-home#.UtgWhJ5dV8M"><strong>A long way from home</strong></a><br /><em>Tlingit helmet’s arrival in Springfield may remain a mystery</em><br />By Matthew Timothy Bradley<br />FOR THE JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />After surviving a 1792 attack by a Tlingit war party in Prince William Sound, future Governor of Russian Alaska Alexander Baranov described the Tlingit warriors as wearing âthick helmets with figures of monsters on them.â While the figures on the helmets must have been terrifying indeed to Baranov, they were anything but monstrous to the wearers. They were their clan crests, vital elements of Tlingit social and personal identity. A Russian account of the 1802 raid on Saint Michael also mentions Tlingit war helmets, and documentation of the 1804 Battle of Sitka describes Chief Kâalyáanâs Raven helmet, which now resides at the Sheldon Jackson Museum near the site of the battle…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-01-16/long-way-home#.UtgWhJ5dV8M">more</a>) (1-16-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-01-16/soboleff-center-construction-coming-along#.UtgTV55dV8M"><strong>Soboleff Center construction coming along</strong></a><br /><em>Construction of culutral center’
2039s infrastructure nearly complete</em><br />By Emily Russo Miller<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />First came the excavation, then the groundwork. Now, the infrastructure is nearly complete. Construction crews are almost done building the steel framework that will support the Walter Soboleff Cultural Center, Sealaska Heritage Instutiteâs new cultural center being built on the corner of Seward and Front Streets in downtown Juneau. The towering three-story âsteel skeletonâ, as the project manager put it, rose quickly. âI have friends that said, âI hadnât been downtown in two weeks and now thereâs a building thereâ,â Lee Kadinger, Sealaskaâs chief operating officer and the project manager, said as he chuckled during in an interview Wednesday…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-01-16/soboleff-center-construction-coming-along#.UtgTV55dV8M">more</a>) (1-16-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-01-16/atreasure-trove-shis-tin%C3%A1-auction-brings-together-works-major-northwest-coast-artists#.UtgT9p6wL3Y"><strong>SHI’s Tináa auction brings together works by major Northwest Coast artists</strong></a><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />A major art auction will take place in Juneau in a couple weeks, bringing together work from some of the biggest names in Northwest Coast art. Organized by Sealaska Heritage Institute as a fundraiser for the Walter Soboleff Center, currently under construction on Front Street, the Tináa Art Auction is an early manifestation of what SHI hopes to achieve through the Soboleff Center â establish Juneau as a center of Northwest Coast art in the region, and celebrate the vitality of the genre as a whole…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2014-01-16/atreasure-trove-shis-tin%C3%A1-auction-brings-together-works-major-northwest-coast-artists#.UtgT9p6wL3Y">more</a>) (1-16-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/01/14/stedman-says-hydro-funds-tight-otter-bill-will-change/"><strong>Stedman says hydro funds tight, otter bill will change</strong></a><br />By Ed Schoenfeld<br />CoastAlaska News<br />…(Sitka Sen. Bert) Stedman last year proposed a bounty on sea otters, which eat shellfish Southeast divers and crabbers harvest. His bill brought strong criticism from environmental groups. And the federal agency managing otters said it would violate marine-mammal-protection law. The legislation is still in play. Stedman says he wants to find a different way to support Native hunters, the only people allowed to harvest otters and process their pelts. âI need to sit down with the Sealaska Heritage (Institute)…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/01/14/stedman-says-hydro-funds-tight-otter-bill-will-change/">more</a>) (1-14-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-01-13/bill-would-create-walter-soboleff-day#.UtWd255dV8M"><strong>Bill would create Walter Soboleff Day</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Bi-partisan legislation introduced Jan. 10 would designate Nov. 14 as Walter Soboleff Day, honoring the life of the Tlingit elder who died in 2011 at age 102. Rep. Cathy Muñoz, R-Juneau, Rep. Beth Kerttula, D-Juneau, Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, D-Sitka, and Rep. Peggy Wilson, R-Wrangell, are co-prime sponsors of the legislation, according to a news release from the House Democratic Caucus…The Sealaska Heritage Institute is building a multi-million-dollar arts center named for Soboleff in downtown Juneau…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2014-01-13/bill-would-create-walter-soboleff-day#.UtWd255dV8M">more</a>) (1-13-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151102032429/http://www.adn.com/article/20140107/emergence-rare-tlingit-war-helmet-come-calls-bring-artifact-home"><strong>Emergence of rare Tlingit war helmet raises a chorus for homecoming</strong></a><br />By Laurel Andrews<br />ALASKA DISPATCH<br />Tribal leaders are hoping a rare Tlingit war helmet that sat mislabeled in museum archives in western Massachusetts for more than 100 years will be returned to Southeast Alaska now that the artifact, considered a sacred object, has been brought to light. The helmet, uncovered this autumn in the Springfield Science Museum archives, was put on display in late December. Records show that the object was accepted into the museumâs collections around the turn of the 20th century, spokesperson Matt Longhi
2039said. The helmet was logged into museum archives simply, and incorrectly, as âAleutian hat”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140107/emergence-rare-tlingit-war-helmet-come-calls-bring-artifact-home">more</a>) (1-8-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIvLhdR4s0w&feature=youtu.be"><strong>Faces of Alaska: Rosita Worl</strong></a><br />By Alexandra Gutierrez<br />Alaska Public Media<br />Throughout her life, Dr. Rosita Worl has been a fighter, an anthropologist and an activist. She’s made it her life’s goal to preserve Southeast Alaska Native traditions while building a collective future for Native people throughout the state. Her early life was full of drama. She’s been kidnapped, she has fled from an arranged marriage and she fought her way through high school. But Dr. Worl persevered through these hardships and those early memories have remained an important part of her history. I sat down with Rosita at her home in Juneau to talk about her progression from being a young child to her current role as president of the Sealaska Heritage Institute…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIvLhdR4s0w&feature=youtu.be">more</a>) (1-7-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/01/06/scholarships-offered-to-sealaska-shareholders/"><strong>Scholarships offered to Sealaska shareholders</strong></a><br />By Ed Schoenfeld<br />CoastAlaska News<br />The Sealaska Heritage Institute is once again offering scholarships to students attending college, graduate school or vocational-technical programs. Only Sealaska shareholders and their lineal descendents are eligible. Institute President Rosita Worl says up to 400 scholarships are awarded each year. âA major consideration is the hopes that our educated young people will come back home and help us in developing strong, healthy communities,â Worl says. The application deadline is March 1st. Students submitting paperwork by February 1st get an extra $50 tacked onto their scholarships, if they qualify…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2014/01/06/scholarships-offered-to-sealaska-shareholders/">more</a>) (1-7-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140320184747/http://www.ktuu.com/news/news/southeast-alaska-native-art-heritage-celebrated-statewide/23798276"><strong>Southeast Alaska Native art heritage celebrated statewide</strong></a><br />By Garrett Turner<br />KTUU-TV<br />Last weekend, the Sealaska Heritage Institute offered a chance to pass down a tradition from generation to generation, in a formline design workshop at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage. Formline is a term that describes the complex designs that make up the distinctive Northwest Coast art practiced by the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian clans. Formline design expert Steve Brown says this cultural art is important to the heritage of many Alaska Natives. “In trying to learn this historical background and the established tradition of this art form, it means they can carry it on from one generation to another — the same way it came down over the last thousand or two years,” Brown said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktuu.com/news/news/southeast-alaska-native-art-heritage-celebrated-statewide/-/21043658/23798276/-/f8ejkk/-/index.html">more</a>) (1-6-14)</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/neighbors/2014-01-05/elizabeth-peratrovich-project-tools-talk-about-civil-rights#.UstCZPRDt8M"><strong>The Elizabeth Peratrovich Project: The tools to talk about civil rights</strong></a><br /><em>League of Women Voters project puts materials, guides at teachers’ fingertips</em><br />By Melissa Griffiths<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Elizabeth Peratrovichâs most famous quote is likely, âI would not have expected that I, who am barely out of savagery, would have to remind gentlemen with 5,000 years of recorded civilization behind them, of our Bill of Rights.â â a response to comments made by a territorial senator. It seems Peratrovich had a way with words and a presence that would captivate people for long after the bill being debated was signed. When carolyn Brown saw the film âFor the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska,â she was moved. She felt the film, a documentary about civil rights activism in Alaska focusing on the efforts of Elizabeth Peratrovich, her husband, Roy, and members of the Alaska Native Brotherhood and the Alaska Native Sisterhood, should be in every school and library in Alaska…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/neighbors/2014-01-05/elizabeth-peratrovich-project-tools-talk-about-civil-rights#.UstCZPRDt8M">more</a>) (1-5-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/010114/new_1188273300.shtml"><strong>CCW 2013 Year in Review</strong></a><br />
2039CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY<br />…August: The Walter Soboleff Center raised enough funds to break ground and start building this cultural center in downtown Juneau in honor of the late Walter Soboleff. The ground breaking was celebrated with traditional Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian songs and dances, along with several insightful speeches. Read more here: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/capitalcityweekly.com/stories/080713/new_1165724646.shtml">http://capitalcityweekly.com/stories/080713/new_1165724646.shtml</a>…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/010114/new_1188273300.shtml">more</a>) (1-1-14)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a id="2013" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/sports/2013-12-20/gold-medal-tournament-include-womens-teams#.UrSng_RDt8N"><strong>Gold Medal Tournament to include women’s teams</strong></a><br /><em>“B” and “M” brackets lose two teams, “C” gains two</em><br />By Klas Stolpe<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />For the first time in six years a womanâs bracket will be included into the Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball Tournament. According to a press release from JLC president Edward Hotch a committee of club members reviewed an October proposal from Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs Carmaleeda Estrada to include womenâs teams, voted unanimously in November to add the womenâs bracket again and began this week notifying all bracket teams selected to the tournament…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/sports/2013-12-20/gold-medal-tournament-include-womens-teams#.UrSng_RDt8N">more</a>) (12-20-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-12-19/shis-first-art-auction-attracts-big-names-northwest-coast-art#.UrR8zvRDt8N"><strong>SHI’s first art auction attracts big names in Northwest Coast art</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Native artists who have committed pieces to Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs first-ever Native art auction rank among the top Northwest Coast artists in the world. The list of donors who have committed work to the Tináa Art Auction â which will raise funds to build the Walter Soboleff Center in Juneau â reads like a Whoâs Who of Northwest Coast artists, said SHI President Rosita Worl. Some of the artists are so well known, their pieces sell for tens of thousands of dollars, and the auction will be a chance for collectors to own work by artists they might otherwise not be able to buy…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-12-19/shis-first-art-auction-attracts-big-names-northwest-coast-art#.UrR8zvRDt8N">more</a>) (12-19-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/state/2013-12-18/native-artists-commit-works-sealaska-auction#.UrHb6PRDt8M"><strong>Native artists commit works for Sealaska auction</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute officials say more than 40 northwest Native artists have committed works for an auction fundraiser scheduled to take place next year in Juneau. The Tinaa (Tin-AHâ) Art Auction is scheduled for Feb. 1 and will feature a live auction, silent auction and a Native fashion show. The pieces committed by artists for the auction range in value between $500 and $55,000. Works include weavings, jewelry, paintings, and wood and glass carvings…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/state/2013-12-18/native-artists-commit-works-sealaska-auction#.UrHb6PRDt8M">more</a>) (12-18-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-12-06/sealaska-heritage-almost-20m-construction-goal#.UqIQufmfj8Q"><strong>Sealaska Heritage almost at $20M construction goal</strong></a><br /><em>Organization has raised $17.5 million</em><br />By Katie Moritz<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Despite construction setbacks due to flooding in September, Sealaska Heritage Institute still plans to complete the $20 million construction of the Walter Soboleff Center by January 2015. Chief operating officer Lee Kadinger spoke to the Juneau Chamber of Commerce lunch crowd Thursday at the Moose Lodge about the centerâs progress and design. Thanks to funding from the city, state and Rasmuson Foundation and other organizations, along with 680 private individuals, Sealaska Heritage Institute has raised $17.5 million dollars to build the center, Kadinger said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-12-06/sealaska-heritage-almost-20m-construction-goal#.UqIQufmfj8Q">more</a>) (12-6-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/12/06/sealaska-heritage-institute-plans-art-auction-fundraiser-for-soboleff-center/"><strong>Sealaska Heritage Institute plans art auction fundraiser for Soboleff Center</strong></a><br />By Casey Kelly<br />KTOO-FM<br />Construction workers this week began erecting the steel frame for Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs Walter Soboleff Center in downtown Juneau. The 29,000 square foot facility is scheduled for completion in January 2015. SHI has raised about $17.5 million of the $20 million project cost. The nonprofit is planning a major fundraiser early next year to get closer to the overall goal. Project manager and Sealaska Heritage Institute Chief Operating Officer Lee Kadinger says construction is moving quickly…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/12/06/sealaska-heritage-institute-plans-art-auction-fundraiser-for-soboleff-center/">more</a>) (12-6-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-12-05/gallery-walk#.UqD85fmfj8Q"><strong>December art openings</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Gallery Walk is a big night for downtown Juneau, and this year itâs going to be even bigger. For the first time, Gallery Walk will also be an officially sanctioned Block Party, thanks to a collaborative effort between the Downtown Business Association and the City and Borough of Juneau. Front Street will be closed to vehicular traffic from 4-9 p.m., transforming that section of town into a public space where art walkers can gather to plot their next move or listen to DJ Manu play a mix of holiday music. Bundle up and check it out!…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-12-05/gallery-walk#.UqD85fmfj8Q">more</a>) (12-5-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/11/26/tlingit-clan-leader-everything-has-a-spirit/"><strong>Tlingit clan leader: Everything has a spirit</strong></a><br />By Casey Kelly<br />KTOO-FM<br />
2039A Shangukeidà Clan Leader says the essence of Tlingit spirituality is this: Everything has a spirit. David Katzeek spoke Tuesday in the final installment of Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs Native American History Month Lecture Series. âWe have words for it,â Katzeek said, speaking the phrase first in Tlingit, then English. âI have the spirit within me.â In the Tlingit tradition, Katzeek said the words he spoke came not from him, but from his teachers and ancestors…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/11/26/tlingit-clan-leader-everything-has-a-spirit/">more</a>) (11-27-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.kfsk.org/2013/11/20/feds-finailze-otter-use-guidelines/"><strong>Feds finalize otter use guidelines</strong></a><br />By Matt Lichtenstein<br />KFSK-FM<br />The federal government has finalized new guidelines on the use of sea otters by Alaska Natives. The change is aimed at better-defining a requirement that hides must be âsignificantly alteredâ in order to be considered authentic native handicrafts or clothing that can be sold to non-natives…tâs a positive step, according to the Sealaska Heritage Institute which teaches classes in the native tradition of skin sewing. SHI Chief Operating Officer Lee Kadinger says the new wording still needs some adjustment but, overall, he says SHI appreciates the change…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.kfsk.org/2013/11/20/feds-finailze-otter-use-guidelines/">more</a>) (11-21-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/11/18/worl-says-shamanism-still-influential-in-tlingit-culture-today/"><strong>Worl says shamanism still influential in Tlingit culture today</strong></a><br />By Casey Kelly<br />KTOO-FM<br />The Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska no longer practice shamanism, but elements of it still exist in their culture today. Thatâs according to Anthropologist and Sealaska Heritage Institute President Rosita Worl, who spoke Monday as part of SHIâs Native American History Month Lecture Series. Worl says shamanism used to be a major component of Tlingit life. She says every clan had a shaman before Russian and American colonization largely forced the Tlingit people to abandon their traditional religion. âShamanism is generally associated with hunting, fishing and gathering societies that often migrate with seasons to follow their food sources,â says Worl. âTo bring food, health and protection from evil, shaman seek connections with animal powers through their rituals”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/11/18/worl-says-shamanism-still-influential-in-tlingit-culture-today/">more</a>) (11-19-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/state/2013-11-18/state-lawmakers-want-clarity-feather-use-art#.UopKcvmfj8Q"><strong>State lawmakers want clarity on feather use in art</strong></a><br />Murkowski, Young introduce bill<br />ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />ANCHORAGE â Two members of Alaskaâs congressional delegation have introduced bills that would clarify that itâs OK for Alaska Natives to sell artwork adorned with bird feathers. Under the legislation introduced by Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Rep. Don Young, some traditional Alaska Native art and crafts would be exempt from a provision of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act barring the sale of items containing the feathers and non-edible parts of migratory birds. The issue began receiving attention after Archie Cavanaugh, a well-respected Tlingit artist, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_ArchieCavanaughFeathers_2012.html#Radio%20Actualities">was fined $2,200</a>for trying to sell a headdress adorned with feathers online, the Anchorage Daily News reported…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/state/2013-11-18/state-lawmakers-want-clarity-feather-use-art#.UopKcvmfj8Q">more</a>) (11-18-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-11-16/rock-your-mocs#.UopMijZvwy8"><strong>Photo: Rock Your Mocs</strong></a><br />By Michael Penn<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Kathy Dye, left, Lee Kadinger, Zach Jones, Davina Cole, Shaadootlaa, Rachael Demarte, Mike Hoyt, Dr. Rosita Worl and Sarah Dybdahl, right, all sport their moccasins to work at the Sealaska Heritage Institute as part of Rock Your Mocs day Friday…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-11-16/rock-your-mocs#.UopMijZvwy8">more</a>) (11-16-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/11/13/north-slope-educator-makes-case-for-native-spirituality/"><strong>Educator makes case for Native spirituality</strong></a><br />By Ed Schoenfeld<br />CoastAlaska News<br />Most Northern Native people have had their traditional spirituality squeezed out of them. Thatâs according to Jana Harchare
2039k, director of the North Slope Borough School Districtâs Iñupiaq Education Department. She spoke Nov. 12 as part of the Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_SHI_Lecture_Series_2013.html">Native spirituality lecture series</a>. Harcharek told her audience that her culture, including its spirituality, was almost destroyed by churches and schools…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/11/13/north-slope-educator-makes-case-for-native-spirituality/">more</a>) (11-14-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-11-07/native-american-heritage-month-lectures-films-continue#.UnvIDzZvyUk"><strong>Native American Heritage Month lectures, films continue</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs Native American Heritage Month Lecture Series continues Tuesday, Nov. 12 with âReclaiming Traditional Spirituality,â led by with Jana Harcharek, director, Iñupiaq Education Department at North Slope Borough School District. Harcharek will speak about efforts to effect change to make the discussion of traditional âreligionâ acceptable for purposes of setting the stage for the reclamation of traditional spirituality more widespread in the Iñupiaq region. The theme of this yearâs lecture series is spirituality…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-11-07/native-american-heritage-month-lectures-films-continue#.UnvIDzZvyUk">more</a>) (11-7-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Alaska Native leaders upset by effort to overturn water rights ruling</strong><br />FAIRBANKS NEWS MINER<br />ANCHORAGE, Alaska â A decision by Gov. Sean Parnell’s administration to try to overturn a subsistence and water rights ruling is an assault on rural Alaska, according to the largest statewide Native organization in the state. Rosita Worl, chairwoman of the Alaska Federation of Native’s subsistence committee, called the state’s actions “a reckless attempt to unravel the precedents set by the lower courts and through administrative procedures. “Too much time, energy and precious funding has been wasted in the state’s ongoing attacks on subsistence,” she said. “Enough is enough”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.newsminer.com/news/alaska_news/alaska-native-leaders-upset-by-effort-to-overturn-water-rights/article_2ed09fb2-4714-11e3-8ca4-0019bb30f31a.html">more</a>) (11-6-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/11/05/anthropologist-discusses-tlingit-spirituality/"><strong>Anthropologist discusses Tlingit spirituality</strong></a><br />By CoastAlaska News<br />Traditional Tlingit culture is filled with spiritual presence and powers that exist within and beyond direct experience. Thatâs according to University of Alaska Anchorage Anthropology Professor Steve Langdon. He spoke Tuesday about Tlingit spiritual connections and obligations. It was the first of five Native spirituality programs sponsored by the Juneau-based Sealaska Heritage Institute as part of Native American Heritage Month. Here, he uses a traditional salmon story to illustrate different dimensions of the beliefs…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/11/05/anthropologist-discusses-tlingit-spirituality/">more</a>) (11-6-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-10-31/native-american-heritage-month-lectures-films-begin#.UnKCNfmfj8Q"><strong>Native American Heritage Month lectures, films begin</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />November is Native American Hertiage Month, and as in previous years, Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor a lecture series, and the University of Alaska Southeast will host a film series. The lecture series will be offered on Tuesdays from noon to 1 p.m. and the films will be shown Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m. Read on for details…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-10-31/native-american-heritage-month-lectures-films-begin#.UnKCNfmfj8Q">more</a>) (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/programs/clan_
2039songs_project.htm">Schedule</a>) (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/images/LectureSeries/2013/flyer_lectures.pdf">Flyer</a>) (10-31-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Doyon makes award for Soboleff Center</strong><br />CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY<br />Doyon, Limited, has made a major donation to Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) to help build the Walter Soboleff Center in Juneau. Doyon’s President and CEO, Aaron Schutt, announced the company’s gift of $100,000 to SHI at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention in Fairbanks. “It is an honor for Doyon, Limited, to assist our friends at the Sealaska Heritage Institute in bringing to fruition the Walter Soboleff Center. The intent of the building, to have a place that celebrates culture, arts and traditions of all Alaska Natives, is significant,” said Schutt…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/103013/new_1180104640.shtml">more</a>) (10-30-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/letters/2013-10-28/getting-better-every-day#.Um7VcjbTmUk"><strong>Getting better every day</strong></a><br />By Ben Brown<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The sight of not one, but two, large construction cranes rising high above downtown Juneau this year has been exhilarating and encouraging. While a lot of exciting construction and remodeling is underway all around town, these cranes mark two particularly large projects which promise to transform the Capital City for the better. The State Library, Archive & Museum (SLAM) and the Walter Soboleff Center together point toward a promising future awaiting all of us who are fortunate enough to call Juneau home, and will bring people here from around the world…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/letters/2013-10-28/getting-better-every-day#.Um7VcjbTmUk">more</a>) (8-28-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-10-18/carving-first-gajaa-hit-pole-nearly-complete#.UmFfilCfj8Q"><strong>Carving of first Gajaa Hit pole nearly complete</strong></a><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Haida carvers Joe and TJ Young have nearly finished carving the first of two totem poles that will replace existing poles at the Gajaa Hit building on Willoughby Avenue in downtown Juneau. Since late August, the carvers, who are brothers, have been working on the pole in a tent behind Gajaa Hit, transforming it from a shaggy, 7,000-pound red cedar log into a finely detailed work of art, one that honors the Raven clans of the Aakâw Kwáan Tlingit. Work on the second pole, honoring the Eagle clans, will begin in March…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-10-18/carving-first-gajaa-hit-pole-nearly-complete#.UmFfilCfj8Q">more</a>) (10-18-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/101613/ae_1177936270.shtml"><strong>Xh’unei Lance Twitchell</strong></a><br />By Mary Catharine Martin<br />CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY<br />Lance Twitchell, Tlingit language speaker and associate professor of Alaska Native Languages at the University of Alaska Southeast, was working toward an English major in his Minnesota college when he wrote an essay on the revitalization of Native American languages. When he got the essay back, it had an uncharacteristically bad grade, and one of the only comments was “Why doesn’t everybody speak English?””(I thought) ‘They still make people like you?'” Twitchell said. “I was really surprised”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/101613/ae_1177936270.shtml">more</a>) (10-16-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>SHI awarded $454,828 grant toward Tlingit revitalization</strong><br />
2039CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has received a federal grant to fund a Tlingit language mentor-apprentice program in Southeast Alaska. The $454,828 grant from the Administration of Native Americans for Language Preservation and Maintenance will establish a Tlingit mentor-apprentice program that works towards perpetuating and revitalizing the Tlingit language. SHI will partner with fluent speakers, advanced Tlingit learners, and three Southeast communities to increase the number of fluent Tlingit speakers under the age of 60 by 300 percent over 3 years. “We now have teachers, we have language learners, and we have material, and so this is absolutely a great event for us to be able to now have a formal program,” said SHI President Rosita Worl…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/101613/new_1177936249.shtml">more</a>) (10-16-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/alaska-native-news.com/rural/9338-sealaska-heritage-institute-selects-two-brothers-for-totem-poles-and-screen-for-gajaa-hit-building.html"><strong>Sealaska Heritage Institute selects two brothers for totem poles and screen for Gajaa Hit building</strong></a><br />ALASKA NATIVE NEWS<br />During the last decade there has been a cultural movement in Hydaburg, Alaska. The community is being lifted up through people like the Young brothers who are contributing to the success of the Haida culture through their love of carving and the Haida language. Brothers Joe and T.J. Young, shareholder descendants, have been selected by Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) to carve two totem poles and a house screen for the Gajaa HÃt building in Juneau…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/alaska-native-news.com/rural/9338-sealaska-heritage-institute-selects-two-brothers-for-totem-poles-and-screen-for-gajaa-hit-building.html">more</a>) (9-26-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>SHI chooses artists to carve totem poles</strong><br />CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has chosen two Native brothers to carve totem poles and a screen for the Gajaa HÃt building in Juneau’s Indian Village.<br />Joe and T.J. Young will carve the pieces for the building, which is located near the Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall. SHI hired the team in 2009 to carve an Eagle pole at the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS), so staff is familiar with their work…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/092513/new_1175177721.shtml">more</a>) (9-25-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/09/23/tidal-flooding-wont-delay-soboleff-center-construction/"><strong>Tidal flooding wonât delay Soboleff Center construction</strong></a><br />By Casey Kelly<br />KTOO<br />Tidal flooding is not expected to delay construction of Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs Walter Soboleff Center. Late last week, the future site of the building at Front and Seward Streets in downtown Juneau filled with water from an extreme high tide, stopping work there. Lee Kadinger is SHIâs Chief Financial Officer and project manager for the center, to be located across the street from Sealaska Plaza. He says the Institute and contractor Dawson Construction anticipated some flooding, since that section of downtown is largely built on fillâ¦(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/09/23/tidal-flooding-wont-delay-soboleff-center-construction/">more</a>) (9-23-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-09-22/flooded-construction-site-reminder-juneaus-mining-history#.UlXI1lCfj8Q"><strong>Flooded construction site a reminder of Juneau’s mining history</strong></a><br />By Jennifer Canfield<br />Work on the Walter Soboleff Cultural Center in downtown Juneau will resume Monday, Dawson Construction Project Superintendent Len Andrews said. Work was halted Thursday after a high tide flooded the excavation site. Andrews said engineers and crew on the project were expecting the flooding, they just werenât sure when. âI was actually relieved that we didnât have to deal with the tides until now,â Andrews saidâ¦(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-09-22/flooded-construction-site-reminder-juneaus-mining-history#.UlXI1lCfj8Q">more</a>) (9-22-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-09-19/shi-awarded-454828-grant-towards-language-revitalization#.UkCQ-4afixU"><strong>SHI awarded $454,828 grant towards language revitalization</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has received a federal grant to fund a Tlingit language mentor-apprentice program in Southeast Alaska. The $454,828 grant from the Administration of Native Americans for Language Preservation and Maintenance will establish a Tlingit mentor-apprentice program that works towards perpetuating and revitalizing the Tlingit language. SHI will partner with fluent speakers, advanced Tlingit learners, and three Southeast communities to increase the number of fluent Tlingit speakers under the age of 60 by 300 percent over three years…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-09-19/shi-awarded-454828-grant-towards-language-revitalization#.UkCQ-4afixU">more</a>) (9-19-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/16/sealaska-heritage-institute-granted-455k-language-revitalization-151302">Sealaska Heritage Institute granted $455K for language revitalization</a></strong><br />
2039INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY<br />To increase the number of fluent Tlingit speakers under 60 years old by 300 percent over three years, the Sealaska Heritage Institute has received a federal grant to fund a Tlingit language Mentor-Apprentice program in Southeast Alaska. The $454,828 grant comes from the Administration of Native Americans for Language Preservation and Maintenance and will establish the mentor-apprentice program that will work toward perpetuating and revitalizing the language…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/16/sealaska-heritage-institute-granted-455k-language-revitalization-151302">more</a>) (9-16-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/12/video-enactment-nagpra-and-whats-changed-20-years-151238"><strong>Video: Stopping grave robbers, protecting sacred remains and NAGPRA</strong></a><br />INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY<br />The Association of American Indian Affairs was integral in enacting the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. In this video, the association walks watchers through the process of why the act was so important and how it came to be. NAGPRA became law on November 16, 1990. The video also discusses changes since NAGPRA was first signed…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/12/video-enactment-nagpra-and-whats-changed-20-years-151238">more</a>) (9-12-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sfu.ca/ipinch/news/ipinch-news/new-ipinch-special-initiative-reducing-barriers-alaska-native-sustainable-arts-lega"><strong>New IPinCH Special Initiative–Reducing Barriers for Alaska Native Sustainable Arts: A Legal Analysis of the Marine Mammal Protection Act</strong></a><br />IPinCH<br />The Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI), formed in 1980, is a Juneau-based, non-profit organization dedicated to perpetuating and enhancing the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska through cultural and educational programs. The Sustainable Arts Program of the SHI offers training in the use of natural resources harvested by members of these nations for traditional and commercial art. The sewing of sea otter skins is one of the traditional practices that is now being revived through workshops at the SHI. The 1972 U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act, implemented to counter the depletion of marine mammal life, has created challenges for SHIâs Sustainable Arts Program in relation to the production of handicrafts out of sea otters…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sfu.ca/ipinch/news/ipinch-news/new-ipinch-special-initiative-reducing-barriers-alaska-native-sustainable-arts-lega">more</a>) (9-11-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/state/2013-09-04/worl-retires-federal-advisory-committee-after-12-years-service#.UkCTTTbTmUl"><strong>Worl retires from federal advisory committee after 12 years of service</strong></a><br /><em>SHI president discusses significance, future of a federal law that returns cultural items to tribes</em><br />By Jennifer Canfield<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Dr. Rosita Worl has retired after 12 years of service from her post on a federal advisory committee that has been instrumental in returning cultural artifacts to Southeast Alaska. Until Friday, Worl â who is the president of the Sealaska Heritage Institute â was the sole Alaska Native on the seven-member Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Review Committee. âI just feel like itâs time to move. Itâs a lot of work and a tremendous amount of reading,â Worl said. âIt was truly an honor to be on the board”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/state/2013-09-04/worl-retires-federal-advisory-committee-after-12-years-service#.UkCTTTbTmUl">more</a>) (9-4-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2013/09/12/3072393/collector-buys-donates-old-haida.html"><strong>Collector buys, donates old Haida hat to Sealaska Heritage Institute<
2039/strong></a><br />ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS<br />A California collector of Native art has donated an old spruce root hat likely made by a Haida weaver to Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI). The hat is dated to 1900 or earlier and is believed to be of Haida origin because it has a âfrogâs backâ designâa recognizable Haida weaving method that was incorporated to make pieces feel bumpy, like a frogâs back. The donor, former Alaskan Monica Wyatt, first saw the hat in August at the Flury & Company gallery in Seattle. âI was transfixed. I couldnât stop looking at it,â Wyatt said. âBut it was too fine a piece for just me to have. Iâve collected contemporary pieces that make me happy, but thereâs no way I could feel good about having a cultural piece with only me here to appreciate it. So I left the gallery.â But she didnât get far. The hat called her back…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2013/09/12/3072393/collector-buys-donates-old-haida.html">more</a>) (9-12-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-08-30/lets-get-behind-downtown-revitalization#.UiDLsZLFV8M"><strong>Empire Editorial: Let’s get behind downtown revitalization</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The Alaskan Hotel celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, in all its creaking glory, as do many other downtown buildings â buildings built to last, but with a tendency to burn and some outdated amenities. A walk through downtown Juneau shows a lot of character and a lot of history, but also empty storefronts, vacant lots and burnt out buildings. We think downtown deserves an overall facelift and we support efforts to revitalize Alaskaâs capital city…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-08-30/lets-get-behind-downtown-revitalization#.UiDLsZLFV8M">more</a>) (8-30-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-08-30/soboleff-center-design-reflects-past-and-future#.UiDG5ZLFV8M"><strong>Soboleff Center design reflects past and future</strong></a><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />A second giant crane now towers over downtown Juneau at Front and Seward Streets and, like its companion on Willoughby Avenue, it signals bright days ahead for Juneauâs â and the stateâs â arts community. The Walter Soboleff Center on Front Street and the Alaska State Library Archives and Museum building on Willoughby will both house public facilities that promise to strengthen Juneauâs position as a hub for arts and cultural activity in the state, while providing many new resources for artists, educators and researchers from Southeast and beyond.Like the SLAM project, the Soboleff Center also brings an exciting new addition to our urban landscape â a modern building on a street that hasnât changed too much in the past 100 years…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-08-30/soboleff-center-design-reflects-past-and-future#.UiDG5ZLFV8M">more</a>) (8-30-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Carvers begin work replacing Gajaa Hit totem poles</strong><br />By Jeremy Hsieh<br />KTOO<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute Art Director Rico Worl rubbed his fingers against the 26-foot tall Raven totem pole in front of the Gajaa Hit building off Willoughby Avenue on Wednesday. Small bits of the soft wood flecked off. âThe wood is decaying,â Worl said. And thatâs just the beginning of his damage report. âYou can see this pole ⦠the wing that fell off, a beak fell off,â he said, gesturing upwards. âMultiple parts have fallen off.â A few feet down the sidewalk, he points out how the powerful Taku winds flow down Willoughby and strip the paint from the Eagle totem pole. The Tlingit artwork has seen better days. And yet, flanking a similarly weathered Tlingit screen, the 35-year-old woodwork collectively still creates the imposing façade of a traditional clan house̷
20390;(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/08/29/carvers-begin-work-to-replace-gajaa-hit-totem-poles-screen/">more</a>) (8-29-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-08-29/young-brothers-begin-work-downtown-totem-pole#.Uh9zf5LFV8M"><strong>Young brothers begin work on downtown totem pole</strong></a><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Haida carvers Joe and TJ Young arrived in Juneau Monday to begin work on the first of two totem poles for Juneauâs Gajaa Hit building on Willoughby Avenue. The two poles will replace originals currently on site at Gajaa Hit erected in 1977 to honor the Raven and Eagle clans of the Aakâw Kwáan Tlingit. For the next several months, the Young brothers will work on the Raven pole at the Sealaska building downtown, offering an opportunity for locals to observe two of the stateâs most highly regarded young carvers at work, while witnessing the gradual emergence of a major art piece for Alaskaâs capital city…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-08-29/young-brothers-begin-work-downtown-totem-pole#.Uh9zf5LFV8M">more</a>) (8-29-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/08/27/brothers-joe-and-tj-young-carve-eagle-totem-pole-151039"><strong>Amazing step-by-step carving of Eagle totem pole by Young brothers</strong></a><br />INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has announced that two brothers, Joe and TJ Young, will be carving totem poles and a screen for the Gajaa HÃt building in Juneauâs Indian Village. The new works will replace poles carved in 1977 (for more on the project, read the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_GajaaHit_Carvers_2013.html">news story at the SHI website</a>). While the undertaking will demand artistry and commitment, SHI is in good hands with the talented Haida brothers, who carved an eagle totem pole for SHI in 2009 that was installed at the University of Alaska Southeast. These photos of Joe and TJ at work on that 2009 carving come from the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://picasaweb.google.com/kathydye2*">Sealaska Heritage Institute Picasa gallery</a>…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/08/27/brothers-joe-and-tj-young-carve-eagle-totem-pole-151039">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Institute selects brothers to carve totem poles</strong><br />The Associated Press<br />ANCHORAGE, Alaska â Sealaska Heritage Institute has selected Alaska Native brothers to carve two totem poles for a building in Indian Village in Juneau. Officials say Joe and T.J. Young are set to begin work on one of the poles this week. Work is scheduled to begin on the second pole next year…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/ap.juneauempire.com/pstories/state/ak/20130827/1169645028.shtml">more</a>) (8-27-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-08-15/shi-hold-public-viewing-santa-fe-indian-market-aug-15#.Ugz90Y3FV8M"><strong>SHI to hold public viewing at Santa Fe Indian Market Aug. 15</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor a public viewing during the Santa Fe Indian Market in its continuing effort to familiarize collectors with Northwest Coast art. The event will include a display of the instituteâs ethnographic collection and staff will be on hand to explain the piecesâ significance to Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian cultures â especially why some objects are considered sacred. âWe have great ethnographic collections and weâre just going to be selecting a few pieces,â said SHI President Rosita Worl. âSome of them have sacred dimensions to them and we want to explain to the people that âYes, we do have art but it has this cultural meaning as well.â â…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-08-15/shi-hold-public-viewing-santa-fe-indian-market-aug-15#.Ugz90Y3FV8M">more</a>) (8-14-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/neighbors/2013-08-11/back-school#.UgpYszbTmUl"><strong>Back to school</strong></a><br /><em>Artists, teachers, culture bearers come together to bring Alaska Native art and culture to students in Southeast Alaska sc
2039hools</em><br />By Melissa Griffiths<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />âItâs coming back,â Artist Della Cheney said. âA little bit at a time.â Southeast Alaska Native art and culture, that is, after a history of oppression. âItâs through the school system that itâs coming back,â said Artist Clarissa Rizal. âAnd funny thing that itâs the school system that also took away our culture, took away our language,â Rizal said. Rizal and Cheney are just two of a group of respected Southeast Alaska artists who participated in Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs Jinéit Art Academy workshop with a number of Southeast Alaska teachers the week of Aug. 5-9. Jinéit Art Academy is a program to ensure younger artists are learning formline â the basis of Northwest Coast art…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/neighbors/2013-08-11/back-school#.UgpYszbTmUl">more</a>) (8-11-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Walter Soboleff Center will build on culture</strong><br />By Amy O’Neill Houck<br />Dancers in bold regalia chanted and swayed sharing local Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian songs and dances. They also danced to songs to them from around Alaska. Those in the audience were amazed not only at their skill and artistry but at their endurance wearing wool button blankets, leather gloves, fur boots. When planning an outside event here in Juneau, we often have to consider wind, rain, and cold, but protecting our elders from heat and sun is a rare concern. At the groundbreaking ceremony for the Walter Soboleff Center on Thursday, Aug. 1, the only umbrella was a parasol one of the attendees used to shade herself from the bright noon rays…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/080713/new_1165724646.shtml">more</a>) (8-7-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/08/02/groundbreaking-for-walter-soboleff-center/"><strong>Groundbreaking held for Walter Soboleff Center</strong></a><br />By Matt Miller<br />KTOO<br />Local, state, and Native officials, and Native elders donned hard hats and picked up shovels on Thursday afternoon to break ground on a new cultural center planned for downtown Juneau. The Walter Soboleff Center will be erected at the corner of Seward and Front Streets with Shattuck Way running along the rear of the building. The 29-thousand square foot space will be devoted to the research and study of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures. The building will house education, arts and language programs, archives and artifact collections, and offices of the Sealaska Heritage Institute…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/08/02/groundbreaking-for-walter-soboleff-center/">more</a>) (8-2-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-08-01/ground-broken-soboleff-center-site#.UfvdfDbTmUk"><strong>Ground broken at Soboleff Center site</strong></a><br />By Kenneth Rosen<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The Sealaska Heritage Institute broke ground Thursday at the site of the planned Walter Soboleff Cultural Center with a ceremony in celebration of the centerâs namesake. âI think it is so fitting that this is named for Dr. Walter Soboleff,â Chris McNeil, Sealaska CEO, said while adding that it embodies everything he stood for. Soboleff, a respected elder and leader in the Tlingit community and Southeast Alaska in general, âwalked into the forestâ in May of 2011 at age 102. âWe wanted to be here, because we love and respect Dr. Walter Soboleff so much. Weâre very honored to support the Walter Soboleff Center,â said first lady Sandy Parnell, speaking for the governor who stood at her side but had laryngitis. âWhat a wonderful way to celebrate Dr. Soboleffâs life among us and our memories of himâ…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-08-01/ground-broken-soboleff-center-site#.UfvdfDbTmUk">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>
2039Ground broken on planned Walter Soboleff Center</strong><br />The Associated Press<br />Ground has been broken at the site of the planned Walter Soboleff Center in downtown Juneau. Thursday’s ceremony included speeches, dancing and praise for Soboleff, the Tlingit spiritual leader who died in 2011 at age 102. First lady Sandy Parnell read a speech prepared for the governor, who stood beside her but had laryngitis. She recalled the kindness Soboleff had shown them, and said the center will be the heartbeat of the community and serve as a bridge between cultures. The center’s features are expected to include art demonstration, exhibit and performance space, a research facility, library and collections storage…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2013/08/01/3003819/ground-broken-on-planned-walter.html">more</a>) (8-1-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-07-30/logs-arrival-marks-official-beginning-totem-pole-project#.Ufk1tzbTmUk"><strong>Logs’ arrival marks official beginning of totem pole project</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Two giant yellow cedar logs were delivered to the Gajaa HÃt building on Village Street off Willoughby Avenue Tuesday, an important step in a project organized to replace the Raven and Eagle totems at the site. The original 26-foot poles, erected in the 1970s to honor the Raven and Eagle clans of the Aakâw Tlingit, are being removed due to safety issues related to their age. The replacement project is a joint effort organized by Sealaska Heritage Institute in partnership with the Tlingit Haida Regional Housing Authority, which owns the Gajaa HÃt building, and the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-07-30/logs-arrival-marks-official-beginning-totem-pole-project#.Ufk1tzbTmUk">more</a>) (7-31-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>SHI seeking RFPs for totem pole, screen replacement</strong><br />By Sarah Day<br />CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has received two grants to commission new totem poles and a screen for the Gajaa HÃt building in Juneauâs Indian Village. A $150,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Our Town program will allow SHI to hire carvers to make the poles and to work with Native apprentices. A $5,000 grant from the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council will fund replacement of the house screen on the building, which is located near the Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall. The new pieces will display the crests of the first people of Juneauâthe Auk Kwáan, which includes the Wooshkeetaan and Lâeeneidà clans. The councilâs award shows the Juneau governmentâs commitment to the perpetuation of cultural practices, and the federal grant demonstrates the nationâs commitment to cultural diversity, said SHI President Rosita Worl..(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/072413/new_1164056223.shtml">more</a>) (7-25-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>SHI awarded grants to commission new totem poles, screen in Juneau</strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has received two grants to commission new totem poles and a screen for the Gajaa HÃt building in Juneauâs Indian Village. A $150,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Our Town program will allow SHI to hire carvers to make the poles and to work with Native apprentices. A $5,000 grant from the Juneau Arts & Humanities Council will fund replacement of the house screen on the building, which is located near the Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall. The new pieces will display the crests of the first people of Juneau â the Auk Kwáan, which includes the Wooshkeetaan and Lâeeneidà clans…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/node/36985#.UfFVII3FV8M">more</a>) (7-25-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.wrangellsentinel.com/story/2013/07/18/about-town/latseen-hoops-tlingit-language-and-basketball/1341.html"><strong>Latseen Hoops: Tlingit language and basketball</strong></a><br />By Greg Knight<br />WRANGELL SENTINEL<br />The Sealaska Heritage Institute âLatseen Hoop Camp,â which started on Monday at the Old Gym, features a combination of Tlingit language directions mixed with muscle-memory basketball as a way of teaching not only the sounds, but also meanings of words in the Native language of Southeast. Basketball fundamentals such as offensive and defensive skills are also taught and are at the core of the program–
2039along with a set of lessons designed to teach leadership and cultural pride. According to the SHI website, programs such as the Hoop Camp are good for the community because “Sports are a popular activity with Native youth, provide physical and health benefits to them, and are consistent with the holistic concept of “Latseen”–strength of mind, body and spirit…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.wrangellsentinel.com/story/2013/07/18/about-town/latseen-hoops-tlingit-language-and-basketball/1341.html">more</a>) (7-18-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-07-17/walter-soboleff-center-break-ground#.UegTCTbTmUl"><strong>Walter Soboleff Center to break ground</strong></a><br /><em>Ceremony will be held on Aug. 1</em><br />By Kenneth Rosen<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />A ground-breaking ceremony is scheduled for next month on the Walter Soboleff Center, the Sealaska Heritage Institute announced Wednesday. âThe big thing is that we did select the contractor,â Rosita Worl, SHI President, said. âTheyâre going to begin work almost as soon as the ground-breaking ceremony is done.â Sealaska plans to have about 100 in attendance with Mayor Merrill Sanford, Gov. Sean Parnell and other members of the Juneau delegation at the ceremony…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-07-17/walter-soboleff-center-break-ground#.UegTCTbTmUl">more</a>) (7-17-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-07-11/parnells-board-reappointments-include-juneaus-zachary-jones-and-ben-brown#.Ud7bGzbTmUk"><strong>Parnell’s board reappointments include Juneau’s Zachary Jones and Ben Brown</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />On July 1, Gov. Sean Parnell announced appointments to five state boards. Two local men, Zachary Jones and Ben Brown, were on his list of reappointments. Jones was reappointed to the State Historical Records Advisory Board. He is the archivist and collections manager for the Sealaska Heritage Institute and an adjunct instructor of history at the University of Alaska Southeast. Before coming to Alaska, he worked in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department at the Swem Library, College of William & Mary in Virginia. He holds a masterâs degree in comparative history from the College of William & Mary, received a certificate of advanced studies in archives and records administration from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Native American history from the University of Alaska Fairbanks…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-07-11/parnells-board-reappointments-include-juneaus-zachary-jones-and-ben-brown#.Ud7bGzbTmUk">more</a>)Â (7-11-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-07-01/shi-hires-contractor-soboleff-center#.UdL6pDbTmUl"><strong>SHI hires contractor for Soboleff Center</strong></a><br /><em>Project expects to break ground later this month</em><br />By Kenneth Rosen<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Although still awaiting a building permit pending changes to plans for the Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs Walter Soboleff Heritage Center, the institute expects to break ground later this month following the hiring of a contractor Monday. Dawson Construction, Inc., the newly-hired contractor, has completed more than 30 projects in Juneau and multiple cultural centers in the region. Through a competitive scoring and bidding process, Dawson Construction, Inc. won the contract for the project that is expected to cost about $20 million…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-07-01/shi-hires-contractor-soboleff-center#.UdL6pDbTmUl">more</a>) (7-2-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/07/01/contractor-hired-to-build-walter-soboleff-center/"><strong>Contractor hired for Walter Soboleff Center</strong></a><br />By Ed Schoenfeld<br />COASTALASKA NEWS<br />A Southeast Alaska cultural organization has hired a contractor to build a large Native arts and education center in Juneau. The Sealaska Heritage Institute announced Monday that it awarded the contract to build the Walter Soboleff Center to Dawson Construction. The contractor is headquartered in Bellingham, Washington, with an extensive history of work in Alaska. Institute Project Manager Lee Kadinger says the bid process began with about a half-dozen contractors…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/07/01/contractor-hired-to-build-walter-soboleff-center/">more</a>) (7-1-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-06-27/sealaska-heritage-institute-posts-cape-fox-stories-told-bessie-denny-peace-ceremony#.UcxmuTTFV8M"><strong>Sealaska Heritage Institute posts Cape Fox stories told by Bessie Denny, peace ceremony led by Austin Hammond</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Earlier this month, Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs Special Collections Research Center posted a recording of Tlingit elder Bessie Denny telling stories in Tlingit, with her son Henry De
2039nny Jr. translating into English. In the recording, Bessie Denny tells about the history of the Saanyá Kwáan, the people of Cape Fox, and the Neix.ádi, Kiks.ádi and the Teikweidà clans, describing their migration routes, place names and acquisition of crests. The stories were originally recorded in Saxman at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Grand Camp Convention in February 1966. The recording was donated to SHI by Bessie Dennyâs great grandson, Bruce Kelley, and made available online from a grant project supported by the Institute of Museum & Library Services. To listen to the recording…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-06-27/sealaska-heritage-institute-posts-cape-fox-stories-told-bessie-denny-peace-ceremony#.UcxmuTTFV8M">more</a>) (6-27-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-06-27/shis-math-basket-highlights-overlap-between-math-and-art#.UcxjujTFV8M"><strong>SHI’s ‘Math in a Basket’ highlights overlap between math and art</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Hereâs one way to get a bunch of middle school kids to do math in the summer: disguise it as art. Last week, during the first half of a two-week math and culture academy offered by Sealaska Heritage Institute, local students learned math through designing and weaving their own baskets. Beyond making math more engaging, the project highlights the idea that the distance between math and art isnât always as wide as the regular school curriculum might make it seem. During the workshop last Thursday, students drew on arts vocabulary and math concepts in equal measure. Discussions about color and design were interspersed with conversations about area and volume, length and width. âWho can show me the perimeter?â asked instructor Samai Khom holding up a basket…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-06-27/shis-math-basket-highlights-overlap-between-math-and-art#.UcxjujTFV8M">more</a>) (6-27-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/neighbors/2013-06-16/shi-sponsor-math-and-culture-academy#.UcHc5PnFV8M"><strong>SHI to sponsor math and culture academy</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute is sponsoring a math and culture academy (www.sealaskaheritage.org/programs/Education/MathAcademy.html) this month in Juneau in an effort to increase interest and academic achievement in math through art. The two-week academy is part of a three-year program that will include culture-based math camps where Native art practices such as basketry, weaving and Northwest Coast formline art will be used to teach math. Through the project, SHI also will increase knowledge of teachers in Tlingit cultural traditions, protocols and art as they affect mathematical learning. SHI is building a model for use in Southeast Alaska by adapting nationally recognized, successful math programs developed by other organizations outside the region. SHIâs academy is inspired by an acclaimed and successful math program developed by Dramatic Results, a nonprofit arts organization in California. It was also informed by Native artists, who have long said Native art practices teach math in a concrete way…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/neighbors/2013-06-16/shi-sponsor-math-and-culture-academy#.UcHc5PnFV8M">more</a>) (6-16-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-06-13/shi-gathers-art-next-years-tin%C3%A1-auction#.UbntITbTmUk">SHI gathers art for next year’s Tináa auction</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute will showcase contemporary works of Northwest Coast art at its first art auction in an effort to promote Native art, raise funds for construction of the Walter Soboleff Center and to establish Juneau as the capital of Northwest Coast art. SH
2039Iâs premier Tináa Art Auction already has pledges from some of the biggest names in Northwest Coast art, said SHI President Rosita Worl, who hopes the event will educate people about fine Native art from the Northwest Coast area. âPeople from everywhere are going to come and learn about our art and our artists,â Worl said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-06-13/shi-gathers-art-next-years-tin%C3%A1-auction#.UbntITbTmUk">more</a>) (6-13-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-06-06/richard-dauenhauer-wins-bullock-prize-excellence#.UbI1FLXFV8M"><strong>Richard Dauenhauer wins Bullock prize for excellence</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Richard Dauenhauer, retired professor of Alaska Native Languages and Culture at the University of Alaska Southeast, has been selected as the recipient of the University of Alaska Foundationâs Edith R. Bullock Prize for Excellence, the largest single award made annually by the UA Foundationâs Board of Trustees. Dauenhauer will be formally recognized for this award with a reception to be held Tuesday, June 11, from 5:30â8 p.m. in the UAS Egan Library. The Edith R. Bullock Prize was established to highlight individual contributions that benefit the UA system. Dauenhauer was honored for his work in preserving Alaska Native languages, Tlingit in particular…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-06-06/richard-dauenhauer-wins-bullock-prize-excellence#.UbI1FLXFV8M">more</a>) (6-6-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Letting totem rot is not the only Native way</strong><br />THE NEWS TRIBUNE<br />By Peter Callaghan<br />Letâs call it the Great Tacoma Totem Pole Controversy ⦠that wasnât. On Tuesday, Tacomaâs arts commission will begin a process that could lead to the loss of a pole that has been displayed for 110 years. A de-accession committee could decide whether to remove the pole from the cityâs art collection. Later, the city Landmarks Commission could decide whether to remove the pole from the protection of the register of historic places. Both of those actions would further a recommendation of a Landmarks Commission subcommittee that the culturally sensitive response to troubling decay of the pole is to take it down, lay it in some wooded area and let it decompose. It is not that the pole couldnât be restored, the commissioners were told; it is that it shouldnât be restored. âI personally spoke with the Sealaska Heritage Institute in Juneau”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.thenewstribune.com/2013/06/02/2621792/letting-totem-rot-is-not-the-only.html">more</a>) (6-2-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/05/29/planning-commission-oks-soboleff-center-permit/"><strong>Planning Commission OKs Soboleff Center permit</strong></a><br />By Rosemarie Alexander<br />KTOO-FM<br />The Juneau Planning Commission has approved a Conditional Use Permit for the downtown Walter Soboleff Heritage Center. It smooths the way for the 29-thousand square foot, three-story building, which will house Sealaska Heritage Institute offices and cultural, artistic and ceremonial spaces. Sealaska still needs to get a city building permit…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/05/29/planning-commission-oks-soboleff-center-permit/">more</a>) (5-29-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-29/planning-commission-hears-soboleff-center-proposals#.UaYoJTbTmUk"><strong>Planning Commission hears Soboleff Center proposals</strong></a><br />By Kenneth Rosen<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The Planning Commission reviewed a conditional use permit pertaining to the construction of the Sealaska Heritage Institute Walter Soboleff Center. The permit allows for off-site staging in the Sealaska parking lot. The project to build the center will span 18 months. Construction is aimed at commencing in June. Staff asked that SHI submit a lighting plan illustrating the location and type of exterior lighting of the center and offered several conditions to the project including public notice periods of road closures to affected areas and parking restrictions for c
2039onstruction crews…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-29/planning-commission-hears-soboleff-center-proposals#.UaYoJTbTmUk">more</a>) (5-29-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-05-23/two-juneau-nonprofits-receive-artplace-grants#.UZ5AODbTmUl"><strong>Two Juneau nonprofits receive ArtPlace grants</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />On Monday, ArtPlace America announced the award of grants to four Alaska organizations, two of which are in Juneau: Perseverance Theatre and Sealaska Heritage Institute. The other two grants went to the Anchorage Park Foundation and Bunnell Street Arts Center. The four projects were chosen from more than 1,200 applications as exceptional examples of âcreative placemaking,â a term that describes the way art can revitalize and transform communities. A total of 54 organizations received grants around the country, ranging from $750,000 to $33,000…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-05-23/two-juneau-nonprofits-receive-artplace-grants#.UZ5AODbTmUl">more</a>) (5-23-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-21/sealaska-receives-475k-award-toward-soboleff-center#.UZuaejbTmUk">Sealaska receives $475K award toward Soboleff Center</a></strong><br />Project expects to break ground in September<br />By Kenneth Rosen<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute received a major award to help fund the forthcoming Walter Soboleff Center, a modern cultural and heritage center, the institute announced Monday. The award of $475,000 comes from ArtPlace America, a collaboration of national and regional foundation funders, banks and federal agencies, which selected SHI from 105 finalists from a pool of 1,225 applications. âItâs very exciting,â SHI president Rosita Worl said. âOf course weâre pleased because it moves us closer to constructionâ…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-21/sealaska-receives-475k-award-toward-soboleff-center#.UZuaejbTmUk">more</a>) (5-21-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-08/shi-reports-major-donations-new-juneau-center#.UYvJFTbTmUk">SHI reports major donations for new Juneau center</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />A number of individuals and a local club recently donated money to Sealaska Heritage Institute to help build the Walter Soboleff Center, putting the institute closer to raising matching dollars to leverage extra funds from a major foundation, the Alaska Native nonprofit group announced Wednesday. A delegation from the Juneau Lions Club this week presented a check for $20,000 to former Juneau Mayor Byron Mallott, chairman of the Walter Soboleff Center Capital Campaign Committee. The club made the donation in honor of the late Walter Soboleff, who was a long-standing member of the Juneau Lions Club, said President Steve Brandner…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-08/shi-reports-major-donations-new-juneau-center#.UYvJFTbTmUk">more</a>) (5-9-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/050813/ae_1133386703.shtml"><strong>SHI to sponsor Native Artist Market</strong></a><br />CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY<br />SHI will sponsor a Native Artist Market in May during the annual Juneau Maritime Festival. Native artists should apply now for a table at the market, which will be held May 19. The annual festival is a popular community event that attracts more than 2,000 people. The art market will be located on the Sealaska Plaza terrace, facing the waterfront and the festival activities. To reserve a table, contact Shaadoo’tlaa at 586-9129 or [email protected]. Space is limited! Deadline to reserve a table is May 13…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/050813/ae_1133386703.shtml">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-08/juneau-groups-receive-grant-money#.UYp5mDbTl9A"><strong>Juneau groups receive grant money</strong></a><br />By Kenneth Rosen<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Three Juneau groups were awarded grants through the Rasmuson Foundationâs Art Acquisition Fund and its Tier 1 program, the foundation announced Tuesday. A total of $654,761 was awarded to 36 groups throughout Alaska, of which $47,367 came to Juneau. The Catholic Community Service received $12,287 for their transit vehicle project; Juneau Jazz and Classics, Inc. received $19,984 for furniture and equipment; and the Sealaska Heritage Institute received $15,096 toward media and publication equipment…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-08/juneau-groups-receive-grant-money#.UYp5mDbTl9A">more</a>) (5-8-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-06/uas-celebrates-its-graduates#3"><strong>Tlingit linguist gets standing ovation</strong></a><br />By Klas Stolpe<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />University of Alaska Southeast alumna and Tlingit elder Marie Olsen hugs UAF Ph.D recipient Keri Eggleston during Sunday’s UAS 2013 Commencement Ceremony on the Juneau Auke Lake Campus. Eggleston, a Juneau resident, received a standing ovation for her thesis: 575 Tlingit Verbs. The project conjugates verbs for tense and subject and will serve as a reference for teachers of the language. Eggleston took over the project from Tlingit linguists and historians Richard and Nora Daunhauer who provided the initial 30 verbs. Funding for the project came from Goldbelt Heritage Foundation and The Sealaska Heritage Institute…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-06/uas-celebrates-its-graduates#3">more</a>) (5-6-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-04-30/shi-sponsor-native-arts-market-artists-must-reserve-tables-may-13#.UX_tUDbTmUk"><strong>SHI to sponsor Native arts market; artists must reserve tables by May 13</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute announced Monday that it will sponsor a Native Artist Market in May, during the annual Juneau Maritime Festival. Tables for the market, which will be held May 19, are available for reservation now. In its announcement, SHI encouraged Native Artists to âapply nowâ in order to get a table…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-04-30/shi-sponsor-native-arts-market-artists-must-reserve-tables-may-13#.UX_tUDbTmUk">more</a>) (4-30-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktuu.com/videogallery/75651151/News/Assignment-Alaska-Tlingit-Language-Lessons#gl-0"><strong>Assignment Alaska–Tlingit Language Lessons</strong></a><br />By Eric Sowl<br />KTUU-TV<br />Letâs learn language is a ten-part series of Tlingit language lessons. âThey are some of the earliest video production language learning tools among the Tlingit,â said SHI Archiv
2039ist Zachary Jones.<br />The whimsical looking lessons were produced in 1969 by the Juneau Indian Studies Program.<br />âThey are teaching the greetings, it teaches colors, numbers and thereâs lots of repetition in there and we know that we all learn language by hearing it first,â said SHI Education Specialist Linda Belarde. âYou can hear the rhythm and you can hear the tones and you can hear how words are put together.â<br />Simple lessons by very plain puppets but just as valid today as they were over 40 years ago. âTheyâre a great resource whether the student is a young child or perhaps a university student,â Jones saidâ¦(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktuu.com/videogallery/75651151/News/Assignment-Alaska-Tlingit-Language-Lessons#gl-0">more</a>) (4-26-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-04-24/my-turn-asian-themed-party-inappropriate#.UXgC6jbTmUk"><strong>My Turn: Asian-themed party inappropriate</strong></a><br />By Rosita Worl, Ph.D.<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />I was surprised to learn about a recent party in Juneau and to see photos online of many respectable citizens at the event dressed in Asian wear complete with kimonos, red lips, and white faces. Minority voices asked about the event and questioned the appropriation and stereotyping of a minority group. I thought that the public discussion about race, privilege and appropriation that initially occurred in response to the minority voices was healthy. It revealed a genuine interest in understanding why the cultural appropriation and the photos of a man in a sumo suit, a woman with a fan, and people wearing cardboard samurai hats â all while celebrating â were offensive, not only to Asian Americans, but to all of our community…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-04-24/my-turn-asian-themed-party-inappropriate#.UXgC6jbTmUk">more</a>) (4-24-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Murdock makes award to fund Soboleff center</strong><br />CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY<br />One of the largest private foundations in the Pacific Northwest has made a substantial donation to Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) help fund construction of the Walter Soboleff Center in Juneau. The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust has awarded $500,000 for the center, which is slated to break ground this year. “So exciting!” said SHI President Rosita Worl. “I don’t know if people heard me screaming and shouting down from my end of the office, ‘We got the grant!’ It’s just marvelous to have that kind of support from these private foundations”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/041013/ae_1122308143.shtml">more</a>) (4-10-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.kfsk.org/2013/04/09/ad-hoc-committee-wrestles-with-otters/"><strong>Ad hoc committee wrestles with otters</strong></a><br />By Matt Lichtenstein<br />KFSK<br />A committee of fishermen and other Petersburg residents is wrestling with what to do about the impact of a growing sea otter population on Southeastâs commercial crab and dive fisheries. The Borough Assembly appointed the ad hoc committee this month after choosing not to endorse proposed legislation that would put a bounty on the animals…As an alternative, Wohlheuter pointed to the Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs approach. The has a program that teaches Alaska Natives how to process and sew otter hides. Itâs also urged the US Fish and Wildlife Service to change regulations that hunters and artisans say have inhibited them from hunting the animals. Wohlheuter suggested voicing support for those efforts in the hopes that it would encourage more hunting…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.kfsk.org/2013/04/09/ad-hoc-committee-wrestles-with-otters/">more</a>) (4-10-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>SHI Trustee Clarence Jackson honored posthumously</strong><br /><em>City and Borough of Juneau Mayor Merrill Sasnford issues proclamation</em><br />ALASKA BUSINESS MONTHLY<br />Clarence Jackson Sr. signed the articles of incorporation for Sealaska in 1972. Until his death in January 2013, Jackson guided the 13-member board through five decades on Native protocols, delivered speeches in Tlingit, and used storytelling as a means of communication. In his capacity as a traditional leader, his efforts touched the lives of many people across the region and beyond. On Monday, April 1, 2013, City and Borough of Juneau Mayor Merrill Sanford honored Jackson posthumously with a mayoral proclamation. Sanford stated, âClarence was known for his vast knowledge of the Tlingit language, history and culture, and on behalf of the City and Borough Assembly do hereby recognize and celebrate, in memoriam, an exceptional Elder of Southeast Alaska”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.akbizmag.com/Alaska-Business-Monthly/April-2013/Sealaska-Director-Clarence-Jackson-Sr-Honored-Posthumously/">more</a>) (4-8-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-04-03/murdock-trust-gives-soboleff-center-boost#.UVxWH5Nax8E">Murdock trust gives Soboleff Center a boost</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The Alaska Native nonprofit organization Sealaska Heritage Institute announced Tuesday that it is receiving a “substantial donation” from a large private foundation to help fund construction of the Walter Soboleff Center in downtown Juneau. âSo exciting!â said SHI President Rosita Worl, reacting to the news in a recording released by the institute. âI donât know if people heard me screaming and shouting down from my end of the office, âWe got the grant!â Itâs just marvelous to have that kind of support from these private foundations.” According to the statement, Worl said the contribution marks the first time SHI has secured funding from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-04-03/murdock-trust-gives-soboleff-center-boost#.UVxWH5Nax8E">more</a>) (4-3-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-03-28/playwright-hopes-new-work-deeply-rooted-tlingit-history#.UVRtDRwp9Cs"><strong>Playwright Hope’s new work deeply rooted in Tlingit history</strong></a><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Many plays that appear on Juneauâs stages travel across considerable distances of time and geography to get here â for example, from Shakespeareâs 16th century England, or from Theresa Rebeckâs modern day New York. Others are born right here, cultivated in the rich soil of Southeast Alaska history and culture. Local playwright Ishmael Hopeâs latest work, âThe Defenders of Alaska Native Country,â is such a work. Though offset by 100 years, the play is very closely tied to the history of this place â as well as to Hopeâs own family history â and to Tlingit culture, in ways both obvious and subtle…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-03-28/playwright-hopes-new-work-deeply-rooted-tlingit-history#.UVRtDRwp9Cs">more</a>) (3-28-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.krbd.org/2013/03/11/sealaska-plans-otter-skin-sewing-workshops/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sealaska-plans-otter-skin-sewing-workshops"><strong>Sealaska plans otter-skin sewing workshops</strong></a><br />By KRBD Staff<br />
2039Sealaska Heritage Institute will offer skin-sewing workshops in six Southeast Alaska communities, in an effort to revitalize a traditional art form and spark a regional cottage industry. Through the program, called the Southeast Alaska Sustainable Arts Project, students in Kake, Sitka, Prince of Wales Island, Hoonah, Juneau and Yakutat will learn to stretch hides, cut patterns and hand-sew hats and scarves from furs. Hereâs SHI President Rosita Worl…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.krbd.org/2013/03/11/sealaska-plans-otter-skin-sewing-workshops/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sealaska-plans-otter-skin-sewing-workshops">more</a>) (3-11-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-03-07/shi-sponsor-skin-sewing-workshops#.UTjIdaU4vy0"><strong>SHI to sponsor skin-sewing workshops</strong></a><br />FOR THE JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor skin-sewing workshops in six communities in an effort to revitalize a traditional art form and to create a cottage industry in Southeast Alaska. Through the program, called the Southeast Alaska Sustainable Arts Project, students in Juneau, Kake, Sitka, Prince of Wales Island, Hoonah and Yakutat will learn to stretch hides, cut patterns and hand-sew hats and scarves from furs. The first class is scheduled next week in Kake and the workshops are open to everyone. One of the goals is to build a cottage industry in economically depressed areas, said SHI President Rosita Worl…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-03-07/shi-sponsor-skin-sewing-workshops#.UTjIdaU4vy0">more</a>) (3-7-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.alaskapublic.org/2013/03/05/sealaska-heritage-institute-to-sponsor-skin-sewing-workshops/"><strong>Sealaska Heritage Institute to sponsor skin-sewing workshops</strong></a><br />KSKA-FM<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor skin-sewing workshops in six communities in an effort to revitalize a traditional art form and to create a cottage industry in Southeast Alaska. Through the program, called the Southeast Alaska Sustainable Arts Project, students in Kake, Sitka, Prince of Wales Island, Hoonah, Juneau and Yakutat will learn to stretch hides, cut patterns and hand-sew hats and scarves from furs. The first class is scheduled next week in Kake and the workshops are open to everyone. One of the goals is to build a cottage industry in economically depressed areas, said Sealaska Heritage Institute President Rosita Worl…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.alaskapublic.org/2013/03/05/sealaska-heritage-institute-to-sponsor-skin-sewing-workshops/">more</a>) (3-5-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-02-26#.USzrKKU4vy0"><strong>Rasmuson Foundation awards grant to SHI</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute, a Juneau-based nonprofit organization affiliated with the Sealaska Corp., has received a grant from the Rasmuson Foundation to purchase new media and publications equipment, according to an announcement from SHI Monday…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-02-26#.USzrKKU4vy0">more</a>) (2-26-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.krbd.org/2013/02/08/sealaska-offers-free-formline-design-workshops/"><strong>Sealaska offers free formline design workshops</strong></a><br />KRBD-FM<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has scheduled a series of free formline design workshops in communities throughout Southeast Alaska. The goal is to revitalize interest in formline design, a term that describes the complex designs, such as ovoids and split Us, that are the underlying components of Northwest Coast art, and to ensure that people are learning the designs correctly. âThere have been a number of master artists who have commented on a bit of decline in the integrity of formline design and s
2039o weâve been directed by our Native Artist Committee to focus on helping to improve the quality of the formline,â said SHI Arts Director Rico Worl…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.krbd.org/2013/02/08/sealaska-offers-free-formline-design-workshops/">more</a>) (2-8-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/02/01/sealaska-board-member-tlingit-elder-clarence-jackson-walks-147399"><strong>Sealaska board member, Tlingit Elder Clarence Jackson, walks on</strong></a><br />INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY<br />Tlingit elder and board member of the Sealaska Corporation since its inception, Clarence Jackson Sr., lost his battle with cancer on January 31. He was 78 years old. He signed theSealaska articles of incorporation in 1972 and is the only board member to serve continuously since the organizationâs founding. He also served as a trustee for the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/tags/sealaska-heritage-institute">Sealaska Heritage Institute</a> (SHI) from the time it was created in 1980, reported KTOO News…(more) (2-1-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/01/31/tlingit-elder-sealaska-board-member-clarence-jackson-dies/"><strong>Tlingit elder, Sealaska board member Clarence Jackson dies</strong></a><br />By Casey Kelly<br />KTOO-FM<br />Tlingit elder and original Sealaska Corporation board member Clarence Jackson died Thursday after a battle with cancer. He was 78. Jackson was born in 1934 in Kake, where he lived most of his life. He attended Sheldon Jackson High School in Sitka, and was involved in the Alaska Native claims movement in the 1960s with the Tlingit and Haida Central Council. He served as Central Council president from 1972 through 1976. Also in 1972, he signed the articles of incorporation for Sealaska, the regional Native Corporation for Southeast, created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Jackson had been the only board member to serve continuously since Sealaska was founded. He also served as a trustee for the Sealaska Heritage Institute from the time it was created in 1980. SHI President Rosita Worl says Jackson was an ambassador of Tlingit culture in the board room and his personal life…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/01/31/tlingit-elder-sealaska-board-member-clarence-jackson-dies/">more</a>) (1-31-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-01-31/sealaska-board-member-clarence-jackson-dies#.UQwPtL9EHy0"><strong>Sealaska Board Member Clarence Jackson dies</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />A link between the past and the present was lost yesterday when Clarence Jackson, the last continuously serving founder of Sealaska, and later the Sealaska Heritage Institute, died at 78. He signed the Sealaska articles of incorporation in 1972. He was the only Sealaska board member who served continuously since inception until now, according to a release from Sealaska. âHe travelled throughout our communities comforting those who had lost loves ones,â said Sealaska board chair Albert Kookesh. âHe was our ambassador, he was the âFaceâ of Sealaska. We are enriched for having known him, and we are comforted to have the tremendous benefit of work that will touch generations to come. Cherished memories of him and his spirit will remain with us always”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-01-31/sealaska-board-member-clarence-jackson-dies#.UQwPtL9EHy0">more</a>) (1-31-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/01/28/juneau-assembly-moves-historic-district-boundary-to-clear-way-for-soboleff-center/">Juneau Assembly moves historic district boundary to clear way for Soboleff Center</a></strong><br />By Casey Kelly<br />KTOO-FM<br />The Juneau Assembly on Monday voted to change the boundary of the cityâs historic district, clearing the way for Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs proposed Walter Soboleff Center to be built as designed. The four-story, 29,000 square foot education and cultural facility will be constructed on a vacant lot at the corner of Seward and Front Streets downtown. The property was right on the edge of the historic district until Monday, when the Assembly voted to remove it…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2013/01/28/juneau-assembly-moves-historic-district-boundary-to-clear-way-for-soboleff-center/">more</a>) (1-29-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-01-28/city-exempts-new-shi-center-historic-district-rules">City exempts new SHI center from historic district rules</a></strong><br />By Russell Stigall<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs cultural center won an exclusion from Juneauâs downtown historic district. The City and Borough of Juneau Assembly granted SHIâs ordinance Monday. The ordinance excludes the block encompassed by Seward Street, Front Street, Shattuck Way and Municipal Way from historic district height and appearance limitations. It is within a block known as âthe pitâ that SHI plans to build its Walter Soboleff Center for Alaska Native heritage and culture. Juneauâs Historic Re
2039sources Advisory Committee proposed in December 2012 to exclude all but the first five feet of the block facing Front Street. This five-foot section of the building would remain in the style of the surrounding buildings…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-01-28/city-exempts-new-shi-center-historic-district-rules">more</a>) (1-29-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-01-24/artplace-names-two-local-arts-organizations-finalists-national-grants#.UQawFb9EHy0"><strong>ArtPlace names two local arts organizations finalists for national grants</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Two local arts groups have been named finalists for grants from ArtPlace, an initiative to accelerate creative placemaking across the U.S. through grants and loans, research, communication and advocacy. Artplace, a collaboration of 13 national foundations and six banks, named 104 finalists from 1,225 applicants across the country. The Juneau-based finalists are Sealaska Heritage Institute and Perseverance Theatre…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-01-24/artplace-names-two-local-arts-organizations-finalists-national-grants#.UQawFb9EHy0">more</a>) (1-24-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-01-23/photo-hunting-juneaus-resources#.UQAd5ydEHy0"><strong>Photo: Hunting for Juneau’s resources</strong></a><br />By Michael Penn<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Donald Gregory of the Sealaska Heritage Institute gives a tour of Native American artifacts to teachers from Dzantikâi Heeni Middle School on Tuesday. Three groups of teachers from DZMS participated in a scavenger hunt on their inservice day to learn more about resources in the community. The Institute was one of seven locations visited during the day…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-01-23/photo-hunting-juneaus-resources#.UQAd5ydEHy0">more</a>) (1-23-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Sealaska Heritage Institute Finalist in ArtPlace Grant </strong><br />ALASKA NATIVE NEWS<br />A major national funder has named Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) a finalist in its extremely competitive grant program for the arts. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.artplaceamerica.org/">ArtPlace</a> has announced that SHI is one of 104 finalists chosen from 1,225 applicants from across the country to potentially receive a grant through its Creative Placemaking program. ArtPlace, an initiative to accelerate creative placemaking across the U.S., received inquiries from 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and American Samoa, according to a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.artplaceamerica.org/articles/artplace-names-104-finalists/">press release by ArtPlace</a>…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/alaska-native-news.com/general-news/7602-sealaska-heritage-institute-finalist-in-artplace-grant.html">more</a>) (1-22-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>SHI accepting applications for college, voc-tech scholarships</strong><br />ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is accepting scholarship applications for the 2013-2014 school year. The deadline to apply is March 1, 2013 …(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2013/01/16/2755157/shi-accepting-applications-for.html">more</a>) (1-17-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-01-10/formline-design-workshops-scheduled-juneau-other-se-communities#.UO74bG_Afy0">Formline design workshops scheduled in Juneau, other SE communities</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has organized a series of formline design workshops in Juneau and nine other Southeast communities in an effort to bring a revitalized focus to formline, the basis of Northwest Coast art. Juneau will host the first workshop this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 12 and 13, at the University of Alaska Southeast. It will be led by Lance Twitchell and will run from 12-5 p.m. both days. Registration is required and space is limited…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2013-01-10/formline-design-workshops-scheduled-juneau-other
2039-se-communities#.UO74bG_Afy0">more</a>) (1-10-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-01-06/moccasin-sewing-class-aims-revive-traditional-art-form#.UOnvw2_Afy0">Moccasin sewing class aims to revive traditional art form</a></strong><br />By Emily Russo Miller<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Maggie Tompkinsâ grandmother, a Tlingit woman from Klukwan, began wearing moccasins long ago after she stepped barefoot on a frog. The moccasins were adorned with bead work that now sits inside Tompkinsâ moccasin-making kit, almost ready to adorn a new pair. âIâm recycling,â Tompkins said, as she began hand-sewing her own pair of moccasins. âI donât know how to do bead work.â Tompkins, 47, and her 27-year-old daughter Jessica Liska, were some of the 15 to 20 women who attended a Sealaska Heritage Institute workshop this weekend to learn how to make moccasins out of seal skin…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2013-01-06/moccasin-sewing-class-aims-revive-traditional-art-form#.UOnvw2_Afy0">more</a>) (1-6-13)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>SHI receives funding from Rasmuson Foundation for Soboleff Center</strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage INstitute was awarded $125,000 from Rasmuson Foundation last week toward construction of the Walter A. Soboleff Center in downtown Juneau. The funding, announced Wednesday at the foundationâs biannual meeting, was part of a total $9.9 million in Tier 2 grants, investments and initiatives distributed statewide…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-12-13/shi-receives-funding-rasmuon-foundation-soboleff-center">more</a>) (12-13-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Walter Soboleff Center receives grant from Rasmuson Foundation</strong><br />KINY-AM<br />The Rasmuson Foundation has awarded a grant to aide in construction of the Walter Soboleff Center in downtown Juneau. The grant to the Sealaska Heritage Institute is for $1,250,000. The last $$250,000 is subject to a one to one match. (12-11-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-11-22/shi-lecture-features-weaver-delores-churchill#.UQbfM79EHy0">SHI lecture features weaver Delores Churchill</a></strong><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Haida master weaver Delores Churchill was this weekâs speaker for the Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs lunchtime lecture series, offered on Tuesdays throughout November in recognition of Alaska Native and Native American Heritage Month. Churchill, a renowned artist who has many students in communities throughout Southeast Alaska and beyond, covered plenty of ground in her one-hour talk, reaching back into the 1960s and 1970s to trace the beginnings of the rebirth of traditional weaving in Southeast Alaska, and bringing that history up through the present day…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-11-22/shi-lecture-features-weaver-delores-churchill#.UQbfM79EHy0">more</a>) (11-22-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-11-22/new-writer-laureate-bridges-cultures-disciplines">New writer laureate bridges cultures, disciplines</a></strong><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Nora Marks Dauenhauer was honored with a reception at the Juneau Arts & Culture Center Tuesday evening in recognition of her recent appointment as Alaskaâs newest Writer Laureate. The event, which included brief speeches in English and in Tlingit, highlighted Dauenhauerâs role in shaping not only the literary arts of the state, but also in revitalizing the traditions and language of her culture. This dual role as a writer and as a Tlingit culture bearer make her unique among our Writer Laureates; she is the first Alaska Native to hold the title. Shannon E. Daut, Executive Director of Alaska State Council on the Arts, said the council was thrilled to honor Dauenhauer…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-11-22/new-writer-laureate-bridges-cultures-disciplines">more</a>) (11-22-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-11-15/recpetion-honor-nora-dauenhauer-be-held-tuesday">Reception to honor Nora Dauenhauer to be held Tuesday</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The Juneau Arts & Humanities Council will host a reception for NoraDauenhauer, Alaskaâs newest Writer Laurate, on Tuesday, Nov. 20 at the Juneau Arts & Culture Center. The reception will run from 5-6 p.m. and will include comments from Rosita Worl, President of Sealaska Heritage Institute, and JAHC executive director Nancy DeCherney, as well as UAS chancellor John Pugh. Dauenhauer may read a few poems during the event. All of her books, including the poetry collection, âLife Woven with Song,â will be on display in the JACC gallery…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-11-15/recpetion-honor-nora-dauenhauer-be-held-tuesday">more</a>) (11-15-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2012/11/08/cbj-plans-to-exempt-soboleff-center-from-historic-district-standards/">CBJ plans to exempt Soboleff Center from historic district standards</a></strong><br />By Casey Kelly<br />KTOO<br />Officials with Sealaska Heritage Institute and the City and Borough of Juneau are working on a deal to let SH
2039I out of the cityâs historic district standards for the proposed Walter Soboleff Center. The four-story, 29,000 square foot education and cultural facility will be built on the edge of the downtown district, which celebrates the late 19th and early 20th century architecture of Juneauâs original mining period. The Soboleff Center will also present a historic look. After all, the history of Southeast Alaska Native architecture goes back over 10,000 years…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2012/11/08/cbj-plans-to-exempt-soboleff-center-from-historic-district-standards/">more</a>) (11-9-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-11-07/old-community-house"><strong>Historical photo: Old community house</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Item 89: Photograph postcard labeled “Old community house, Old Kasaan, Alaska,” photograph by W.H. Case, circa 1890s. (Sealaska Heritage Institute collection)…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-11-07/old-community-house">more</a>) (11-7-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-11-06/shi-lectures-native-american-heritage-month"><strong>SHI lectures for Native American Heritage Month</strong></a><br />By Russell Stigall<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute is celebrating 2012 Native Heritage Month with weekly lunch lectures through November. The lectures focus on Native arts and will add to the instituteâs expanded arts program…Worl said the instituteâs work helps create opportunity for artists and educate the public. The idea is âto develop a greater cross-cultural understanding,â Worl said in the release…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-11-06/shi-lectures-native-american-heritage-month">more</a>) (11-6-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-11-01/chief-shakes-community-house"><strong>Historical photo: Chief Shakes Community House</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Postcard photograph of the Chief Shakes Community House in Wrangell, 1940. (Sealaska Heritage Institute collection)…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-11-01/chief-shakes-community-house">more</a>) (11-1-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-11-01/films-lectures-celebrate-native-american-heritage-month">Films, lectures celebrate Native American Heritage Month</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />November is Alaska Native and Native American Heritage Month, and in Juneau there will be plenty of opportunity to learn more about indigenous cultures in Southeast and elsewhere. Hereâs a look at some of the happenings. Sealaska Heritage Institute will once again host a lecture series in recognition of Alaska Native & Native American Heritage Month…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-11-01/films-lectures-celebrate-native-american-heritage-month">more</a>) (11-1-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-31/totem-knowledge"><strong>Historical photo: Totem knowledge</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />This photograph shows Henry Denny Sr. at Saxman teaching Tlingit youth about a totem pole and its<br />corresponding history in August 1941. The photograph was taken as a public relations effort to document the Civilian Conservation Corps federal Works Relief Program when Tlingit and Haida carvers created Southeast Alaskaâs totem parks…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-31/totem-knowledge">more</a>) (10-31-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-30/historical-photo-broke-and-hungry-alaska"><strong>Historical photo: Broke and hungry in Alaska</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Thereâs a bit of whimsey in the historic Harry E. Bonner Photograph Collection. This photo lists the subject, presumably Bonner, as âBroke, hungry, cold, homesick in the center of Alaska.â The Bonner photos, including some of Juneau and Douglas, were likely taken between 1900 and 1909. (Sealaska Heritage Institute collection)…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-30/historical-photo-broke-and-hungry-alaska">more</a>) (10-30-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-29/historical-photo-yaxte-big-dipper-totem"><strong>Historical photo: ‘Yaxte’ Big Dipper Totem</strong></a><br />Photograph postcard of “Yaxte’ Big Dipper Totem, Juneau, Alaska,” photo by Oroway, circa 1900 (Sealaska Heritage Institute collections)…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-29/historical-photo-yaxte-big-dipper-totem">more</a>) (10-29-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>AFN calls for change in law to allow use of feathers in Native art</strong><br />ALASKA NATIVE NEWS<br />The Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) has unanimously passed a resolution calling for changes to federal law to allow Native use of feathers in art and handicrafts for sale. The vote came during the AFNâs convention in Anchorage, following publicity about award-winning Tlingit artist Archie Cavanaugh who recently faced possible prison time and a hefty fine for attempting to sell a headdress and hat adorned with flicker and raven feathers…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/alaska-native-news.com/state_news/6999-afn-calls-for-change-in-law-to-allow-use-of-feathers-in-native-art.html">more</a>) (10-25-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/102412/ae_1058350843.shtml">SHI releases curriculum on Alaska Native history</a></strong><br />
2039CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has produced a three-volume set of materials to teach Alaska Native history and to help address a need for curriculum on Native studies. The curriculum, developed for grades six to eight, examines Alaska Native history from the Native worldview of creation through modern times and includes an extensive exploration of the landmark Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/102412/ae_1058350843.shtml">more</a>) (10-24-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-24/totem-carver">Historical photo: Totem carver</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Item 91: Postcard photograph labeled âAlaska Native totem carver,â circa 1939, by Schallerer. It appears this image was taken during the Civilian Conservation Corps federal Works Relief Program when Tlingit and Haida carvers created Southeast Alaskaâs totem (Sealaska Heritage Institute collection)…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-24/totem-carver">more</a>) (10-24-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-23/postcard-poses">Historical photo: Postcard poses</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />This is a brown and white photograph postcard titled âThe Dancers,â who were identified on the postcard as Kaw-claa and Prince Stene-tu, photo by Case & Draper, 1910. This staged image shows a Tlingit woman and male youth in traditional regalia with ethnographic items. These individuals were likely paid to pose for this photograph…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-23/postcard-poses">more</a>) (10-23-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2012/10/19/2665956/murkowski-and-young-criticize.html">Murkowski and Young criticize government actions to AFN delegates</a></strong><br />ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS<br />By Kyle Hopkins<br />Fishermen cited for breaking a subsistence fishing ban on the Lower Kuskokwim River should never have been fined, Sen. Lisa Murkowski told a crowd of hundreds Friday at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention. Murkowski and Rep. Don Young, speaking at a forum about hunting and fishing rights and other issues, also criticized recent sanctions against an Alaska Native artist fined for using raven parts and other feathers in his contemporary artwork. “I think this has been an embarrassment for how our government and our federal agencies ignore the traditions and cultures of our first people,” Murkowski said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2012/10/19/2665956/murkowski-and-young-criticize.html">more</a>) (10–19-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2012/10/18/2664734/our-view-feathers-case-points.html#storylink=cpy">Our View: Native artistry using feathers will not endanger birds</a></strong><br />ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS<br />If a picture is worth a thousand words, try the two shown at the right. Top, traditional Tlingit headdress with flicker feathers, by award-winning artist Archie Cavanaugh. Bottom, same headdress with a haircut, courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Absurd, isn’t it?…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2012/10/18/2664734/our-view-feathers-case-points.html#storylink=cpy">more</a>) (10-18-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-17/historical-photo-inside-nugget-shop"><strong>Historical photo: Inside the Nugget Shop</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />This is an undated photo of the inside of the Nugget Shop, a downtown fixture that sold Native art and all kinds of Alaskana (Sealaska Heritage Institute collections)…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-17/historical-photo-inside-nugget-shop">more</a>) (10-17-12) (<em>Note the Chilkat blanket hanging on the far wall</em>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/state/2012-10-17/tlingit-artist-told-hes-violating-federal-law"><strong>Tlingit artist told he’s violating federal law</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />By Mike Dunham<br />
2039For hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years, Natives of Southeast Alaska have paid artisans to create tools, clothing and ceremonial regalia adorned with feathers. So contemporary Tlingit carver Archie Cavanaugh was startled last month when U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service personnel told him that items he had advertised for sale violated federal laws. Specifically: a carved hat featuring the wings and tail of a raven, and a headdress, or âshakee.át,â topped with the feathers of a flicker, a robin-size relative of the woodpecker…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/state/2012-10-17/tlingit-artist-told-hes-violating-federal-law">more</a>) (10-17-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.alaskadispatch.com/article/tlingit-artist-avoids-jail-time-over-use-feathers-artwork"><strong>Tlingit artist avoids jail time over use of feathers in artwork</strong></a><br />ALASKA DISPATCH<br />By Suzanna Caldwell<br />Early last month Tlingit artist Archie Cavanaugh had a bit of shock when a U.S. Fish and Wildlife officer came to his door, telling him he could be charged with a felony because he tried to sell two pieces of Tlingit artwork adorned with bird feathers. What Cavanaugh, 61, didn’t know was that those feathers — <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Flicker">flicker</a> and raven — are protected under the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migratory_Bird_Treaty_Act_of_1918">Migratory Bird Treaty</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacey_Act_of_1900">Lacey Act</a>, which prohibit the sale of certain protected bird parts…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.alaskadispatch.com/article/tlingit-artist-avoids-jail-time-over-use-feathers-artwork">more</a>) (10-15-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Native Alaskan artist told selling his art violates federal laws</strong><br />ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS<br />By Mike Dunham<br />For hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years, Natives of Southeast Alaska have paid artisans to create tools, clothing and ceremonial regalia adorned with feathers. So contemporary Tlingit carver Archie Cavanaugh was startled last month when U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service personnel told him that items he had advertised for sale violated federal laws. Specifically: a carved hat featuring the wings and tail of a raven, and a headdress, or âshakee.át,â topped with the feathers of a flicker, a robin-size relative of the woodpecker. âThey told me that under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act they can charge me up to $10,000 and throw me in jail for a couple of years,â Cavanaugh said. âAnd they told me that under the Lacey Act they can charge me up to $100,000 and put me in jail for 10 years. It was very scary. I went into complete depression”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2012/10/16/2668320/feds-tell-native-alaskan-artist.html">more</a>) (10-15-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-12/proud-tradition-paddling"><strong>Historical photo: A proud tradition paddling</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />This photograph shows a Tlingit carved long boat full of paddlers with Chief Shakes VII standing in front. The photographer is unknown, but the photo is from 1940. Chief Shakes VII, also known as Charlie Jones, was arrested in 1922 for voting, a right associated with citizenship not granted for another two years. The name “Shakes”–originally Wiisheyksh–comes from a battle fought on canoes generations before…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-12/proud-tradition-paddling">more</a>) (10-12-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-10-11/dauenhauer-named-state-writer-laureate"><strong>Dauenhauer named State Writer Laureate</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Nora Marks Dauenhauer of Juneau has been named Alaskaâs State Writer Laureate. Dauenhauer will represent Alaska from 2012 to 2014. Dauenhauerâs award was announced by the Alaska State Council on the Arts Thursday afternoon, along with seven 2012 Governorâs Awards re
2039cipients. Dauenhauer is a highly respected writer, poet, linguist and researcher…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-10-11/dauenhauer-named-state-writer-laureate">more</a>) (10-11-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2012/10/10/2656835/tlingit-author-and-linguist-named.html"><strong>Tlingit author and linguist named Alaska Writer Laureate</strong></a><br />ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS<br />By Mike Dunham<br />Tlingit poet, playwright, historican and linguist Nora Marks Dauenhauer of Juneau has been named the new Alaska State Writer Laureate. With her husband, Richard Dauenhauer, she has written important collections of Tlingit oratory and oral histories. The Dauenhauer’s won an American Book Award for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/shop/book_russians_tlingit_america_2008.htm">“Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804.”</a> One of her short poems was featured in New York subways as part of a project to place contemporary poetry before mass audiences…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2012/10/10/2656835/tlingit-author-and-linguist-named.html">more</a>) (10-11-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-11/historical-photo-chief-kawee-and-tribe-juneau"><strong>Historical photo: Chief Kawee and tribe, Juneau</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Cabinet card photograph of “Chief Kawee and tribe, Juneau,” by Winter & Brown, circa 1870s. View shows approximately twenty Native men posing in front of a dead brown bear, at what appears to be the old Juneau Indian Village. Background shows some Native women and children amidst Tlingit homes (Sealaska Heritage Institute collection)…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-11/historical-photo-chief-kawee-and-tribe-juneau">more</a>) *10-11-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-09/historical-photoa-sailboat-near-douglas-island"><strong>Historical photo: A sailboat near Douglas Island</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The words on the back read, “A sailboat near Douglas Is.” This undated shot is from the Harry E. Bonner Photo Collection at Sealaska Heritage Institute…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-09/historical-photoa-sailboat-near-douglas-island">more</a>) (10-9-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-08/glory-hole"><strong>Historical photo: Glory Hole</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The writing below image reads, “glory hole, Treadwell Mine, Douglas Is.” It is undated. (Sealaska Heritage Institute collection)…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-08/glory-hole">more</a>) (10-8-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-07/historical-photo-douglas-progressive-native-club"><strong>Historical photo: Douglas Progressive Native Club</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The Douglas Progressive Native Group Photograph, 1916. Photo by E[dward] Andrews. Reverse reads “Old Douglas Hospital.” (Sealaska Heritage Institute collection)…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-07/historical-photo-douglas-progressive-native-club">more</a>) (10-6-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-05/historical-photo-city-j-0"><strong>Historical photo: ‘City of J’</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The writing below image reads “City of J.” Hmmm, looks familiar. The photographer on this tour of Southeast Alaska had an interesting way of cutting photos into unique shapes, and often added humorous captions (Sealaska Heritage Institute collection)…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-05/historical-photo-city-j-0">more</a>) (10-5-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-05/historical-photo-chief-shakes-house"><strong>Historical photo: Chief Shakes House</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Chief Shakes House with totems in left foreground, circa 1920s, Wrangell, Alaska (Sealaska Heritage Institute collection)… (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-05/historical-photo-chief-shakes-house">more</a>) (10-5-12)</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-10-04/young-tlingit-artist-honors-tradition-trickster-brand"><strong>Young Tlingit artist honors tradition with Trickster brand</strong></a><br />By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The juxtaposition of tradition and innovation is fairly common in contemporary Tlingit art; less so is the blend of seriousness and exuberance found in Rico Worlâs skateboard designs. The designs Worl creates for his boards are graphic, modern, and â backed with colorful paint splatters â even playful; and yet his execution of formline design and other Tlingit elements is carefully considered, the product of in-depth study of traditional rules and cultural protocol. Raised amidst the influence of many highly respected Tlingit artists and culture bearers â including his grandmother Rosita Worl, his aunt Celeste Worl, and clan member Nathan Jackson â Worlâs cultural education began early, and included an appreciation of art as an integral element of his life…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-10-04/young-tlingit-artist-honors-tradition-trickster-brand">more</a>) (10-4-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.kcaw.org/2012/10/02/anb-celebrates-a-century-plans-for-the-future/"><strong>ANB celebrates a century, plans for the future</strong></a><br />By Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska News<br />The Alaska Native Brotherhood is celebrating its 100th birthday. The Southeast-based organization and its partner group, the Alaska Native Sisterhood, have been at the forefront of Alaska’s civil rights movement since they formed…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.kcaw.org/2012/10/02/anb-celebrates-a-century-plans-for-the-future/">more</a>) (10-3-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-03/historical-photo-children-gathering-herring-douglas"><strong>Historical photo: Children gathering herring on Douglas</strong></a><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />This photograph shows Tlingit children gathering herring on a Douglas Island beach, near Juneau in 1895. The Douglas Pharmacy building is in the background. (Sealaska Heritage Institute collection)…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-03/historical-photo-children-gathering-herring-douglas">more</a>) (10-3-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.kstk.org/2012/10/02/kstk-donates-audio-to-sealaska-heritage-institute/"><strong>
2039KSTK donates audio to Sealaska Heritage Institute</strong></a><br />By Ariel Van Cleave<br />KSTK NEWS<br />The Sealaska Heritage Institute now has a couple hundred radio recordings from Wrangell dating from the 1960s to 1990s. KSTK recently donated approximately 200 reels of audio that document the history and events of the community through interviews and talk shows. Zachary Jones is an Archivist and Collections Manager with SHI. He said the recordings offer insight into what life was like in Wrangell during that time…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.kstk.org/2012/10/02/kstk-donates-audio-to-sealaska-heritage-institute/">more</a>) (10-2-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.alaskadispatch.com/article/radio-station-gifts-historic-archives-sealaska-corp-video"><strong>Radio station gifts historic archives to SHI</strong></a><br />Alaska Dispatch<br />Radio station KSTK-FM has donated hundreds of audio recordings to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/about/index.html">Sealaska Heritage Institute</a>(SHI) in Juneau, according to a Sealaska press release. The recordings are between 20 and 50 years old, some dating as far back as 1960, and document history, events and happening in the community of Wrangell, in S
2039outheast Alaska…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.alaskadispatch.com/article/radio-station-gifts-historic-archives-sealaska-corp-video">more</a>) (10-1-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-09-30/historical-photo-old-witch-doctor-and-nugget-shop">Historical photo: Old Witch Doctor and Nugget shop</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />This color postcard of the “Old Witch Doctor and Nugget Shop, Juneau, Alaska,” is postmarked 1938.. (Sealaska Heritage Institute EBay collection)…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-09-30/historical-photo-old-witch-doctor-and-nugget-shop">more</a>) (9-30-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-09-28/historical-photo-canoe-race">Historical photo: Canoe race</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />This is a photograph taken circa 1904 by the Albertype Co., NY, circa 1904 showing people racing canoes off the Juneau shore. (Sealaska Heritage Institute EBay collection)…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-09-28/historical-photo-canoe-race">more</a>) (9-28-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-09-28/strong-turnout-alaska-native-vote-event">Strong turnout for Alaska Native vote</a></strong><br />By MARK MILLER<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Attendees of an Alaska Native Vote event at Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall Thursday had the opportunity to learn about the voting process, get registered to vote and more. The event, supported by the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Sealaska Corp., the League of Women Voters, the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, Alaska Native Brotherhood Camp 70, and the Tlingit-Haida Regional Housing Authority, was aimed at empowering Native residents to organize politically and participate in upcoming elections…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-09-28/strong-turnout-alaska-native-vote-event">more</a>) (9-28-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Sealaska Heritage gets education & Soboleff center grants<br /></strong>By Rosemarie Alexander<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has received a total of $4.5 million for educational programs and the Walter Soboleff Center to be built in downtown Juneau. The federally funded Alaska Native Education Program has awarded three grants; the first for about $2 million over two years, dedicated to construction of the Soboleff facility. The second grant is $1.2 million over three years for cultural orientation programs for teachers in the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150330005356/http://www.edlinesites.net/pages/Juneau_School_District">Juneau School District</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.uas.alaska.edu/">University of Alaska Southeast</a>. The heritage institute has already signed an agreement with the school district and UAS for educational programs. SHI president Rosita Worl says the program for teachersâ began informally this fall…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoonews.org/2012/09/27/sealaska-heritage-gets-education-soboleff-center-grants/">more</a>) (9-27-12)</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.wrangellsentinel.com/story/2012/09/27/news/jones-in-wrangell-to-study-1869-bombardment/550.html"><strong>Jones in Wrangell to study 1869 Bombardment</strong></a><br />WRANGELL SENTINELL<br />Zachary Jones, a historian and archivist for Sealaska Heritage Institute, was in Wrangell last week to speak to the public about his ongoing research into documentation of the 1869 Battle of Wrangell. Jones, a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnohistory at University of Alaska Fairbanks, has worked for Sealaska for five years as a curator on Native artifacts…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.wrangellsentinel.com/story/2012/09/27/news/jones-in-wrangell-to-study-1869-bombardment/550.html">more</a>) (9-27-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Radio station donates archives to heritage group<br /></strong>The Associated Press<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute says a southeast Alaska radio station has donated hundreds of audio recordings to the institute. The archival donation from Wrangell radio station KSTK consists of hundreds of hours of recordings made from the 1960s to the 1990s. Institute officials say the recordings document some topics of interest to Alaska Natives as well as the wider community…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2012/09/27/2641949/radio-station-donates-archives.html">more)</a> (9-27-12)</p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-09-23/historical-photo-native-village-juneau">Historical photo: Native village in Juneau</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />This photo from the Sealaska Heritage Institute collection by Edward deGroff shows what he called the âIndian City at Juneauâ and was taken cir
2039ca 1880. It shows Tlingit homes and canoes along a beach on the Gastineau Channel. (John Delgado collection, #5185567553350289250)…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-09-23/historical-photo-native-village-juneau">more</a>) (9-23-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.kstk.org/2012/09/21/joint-effort-seeks-information-about-1869-battle-of-wrangell/">Joint effort seeks information about 1869 Battle of Wrangell</a><br /></strong>by Ariel Van Cleave<br />KSTK News<br />Local residents are asked to share stories they may have about the 1869 Battle of Wrangell. The Wrangell Cooperative Association is teaming up with the Sealaska Heritage Institute to find out more information about the conflict and work on ways to commemorate the event. The partnership is thanks to a $32,000 grant from the National Park Serviceâs American Battlefield Protection Program. Zach Jones is with the Heritage Institute and has been in Wrangell the last few days talking with residents and performing research…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.kstk.org/2012/09/21/joint-effort-seeks-information-about-1869-battle-of-wrangell/">more</a>) (9-21-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-09-13/shi-awarded-two-grants-perpetuate-interpret-native-arts">SHI awarded two grants to perpetuate, interpret Native arts</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has been awarded two grants to perpetuate Native arts and to help the general public interpret Northwest Coast art designs. The Alaska Humanities Forum has given SHI a $7,000 grant to develop a booklet that interprets the distinctive Native designs known as formline. Members of the public frequently ask for assistance in understanding the designs â itâs one of the most common questions fielded by SHI and art and tourism organizations. …(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-09-13/shi-awarded-two-grants-perpetuate-interpret-native-arts">more</a>) (9-13-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Native art teachers sought<br /></strong>Sacramento Bee<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute is looking for Native art instructors. Institute officials say the teachers are needed to host two-day workshops in Southeast communities on a design element known as formline. Officials say applicants should have advanced skills in formline, and teaching experience is preferred…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sacbee.com/2012/09/07/4796898/native-art-teachers-sought.html">more</a>) (9-7-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.kstk.org/2012/08/21/grant-funds-battle-of-wrangell-research/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=grant-funds-battle-of-wrangell-research">Grant funds Battle of Wrangell research</a><br /></strong>BY ED SCHOENFELD<br />CoastAlaska News<br />Did you know the United States Army and Stikine Tlingits fought a battle in Wrangell almost 150 years ago? If you didnât, youâre not alone. Tis Peterman has lived in Wrangell all her life. But until a few years ago, sheâd never heard of the 1869 Battle of Wrangell. âI happened to come across it when I did some research for the museum that was built here,â she says. Peterman works for the Wrangell Cooperative Association, the Southeast communityâs tribal government. âAnd it was just this very little story”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.kstk.org/2012/08/21/grant-funds-battle-of-wrangell-research/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=grant-funds-battle-of-wrangell-research">more</a>) (8-21-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Alaskans join huge Lower-48 Native art market<br /></strong>BY ED SCHOENFELD<br />CoastAlaska News<br />A Southeast Alaska dance group performs this weekend (Aug. 18-19) at a major Southwest U.S. Native arts event. The Tsimshian Git Hoan Dancers are part of Alaskaâs contribution to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/swaia.org/">Santa Fe Indian Market</a>. The annual event attracts more than 1,000 Native artists and 100,000 visitors to the New Mexico city. Sealaska Heritage Institute President Rosita Worl says the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.davidboxley.com/culture.shtml">Git Hoan Dancers</a>are very popular at Celebration, a biennial dance-and-culture festival in Juneau…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoonews.org/2012/08/16/alaskans-join-huge-lower-48-native-artmarket/">more</a>) (8-16-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-07-20/native-students-get-crash-course-cultural-values">Native students get crash course on cultural values</a><br /></strong>BY MARK D. MILLER<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Students attending the Latseen Leadership Academy in Juneau got a special visit Thursday from Rosita Worl, president of the Sealaska Heritage Institute. The institute hosts the week-long camp every summer, and Worl was there to give a talk on the cultural values of Southeast Alaskaâs Native people. In her half-hour lecture, Worl emphasized four âcore cultural valuesâ …<strong>(</strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-07-20/native-students-get-crash-course-cultural-values">more</a>) (7-20-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indigenouspeoplesissues.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15699:alaska-sealaska-heritage-institute-to-work-with-wca-in-researching-1869-bombardment-of-wrangell&catid=22:north-america-indigenous-peoples&Itemid=55">Sealaska Heritage Institute to work with WCA in researching 1869 bombardment of Wrangell</a><br /></strong><em>The event had Wrangell in the national news and the crosshairs of the U.S. military<br /></em>A largely forgotten piece of Wrangell history may soon come to light, as the Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has been awarded a grant to research the 1869 Bombardment of Wrangell. SHI was the recipient of a one-year National Park Service (NPS) Battlefield Preservation Grant to document 1869 Bombardment through oral history work with elders in partnership with the Wrangell Cooperative Association (WCA). This is the first ever Battlefield Preservation Grant awarded to an organization in Alaska to study a U.S. military conflict with a Native American tribe…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indigenouspeoplesissues.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15699:alaska-sealaska-heritage-institute-to-work-with-wca-in-researching-1869-bombardment-of-wrangell&catid=22:north-america-indigenous-peoples&Itemid=55">more</a>) (7-18-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Famous carver Amos Wallace’s documents headed for public archive<br /></strong>BY ED SCHOENFELD<br />CoastAlaska News<br />Amos Wallace was a keeper. So his longtime home on Juneauâs Douglas Island held numerous documents from his nearly 70-year career. Since he and his wife Dorothy passed away, their son, photographer Brian Wallace, has been going through the collection. âI was in the basement in the earlier part of this year and I opened up some boxes of stuff and I saw some photos that Iâve never seen before, and unfortunately I found this,â Brian Wallace says…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoonews.org/2012/07/16/famous-carvers-documents-headed-for-public-archive/">more</a>) (7-16-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Carver’s archives donated to Sealaska<br /></strong>BY MIKE DUNHAM<br />ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS<br />Photos and drawings owned by the late master carver Amos Wallace have been donated by his son, Brian, to Sealaska Heritage Institute. A press release descibed the collection as “a treasure trove of original drawings made by the famous artist as he was designing totem poles and other carvings destined for museums, universities and private collections.”
2039 Plans are for the images to be archived and shared at the Institute’s Walter Soboleff Center, construction of which is scheduled to start next year…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2012/07/14/2542665/carvers-archives-donated-to-sealaska.html">more</a>) (7-14-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-07-12/shi-sponsor-free-basketball-camp">SHI to sponsor free basketball camp</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor free basketball camps in Juneau for kids in grades 5 to 12. The camps will be held at Dzantikâi Heeni Middle School and are open to youth of all skill levels…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-07-12/shi-sponsor-free-basketball-camp">more</a>) (7-12-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-07-12/amos-wallace-collection-donated-walter-soboleff-center">Amos Wallace collection donated to Walter Soboleff Center</a><br /></strong><em>Collection includes hundreds of formline drawings made by master carver<br /></em>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The son of the late master carver Amos Wallace has donated his fatherâs collection of drawings and historical photographs and papers to Sealaska Heritage Institute. The collection, donated by Brian Wallace, is a treasure trove of original drawings made by the famous artist as he was designing totem poles and other carvings destined for museums, universities and private collections. Brian Wallace donated it to the institute because he wanted it to be archived and shared at SHIâs Walter Soboleff Center, scheduled to break ground next year…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-07-12/amos-wallace-collection-donated-walter-soboleff-center">more</a>) (7-12-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-07-06/grants-go-city-museum-sealaska-internship">Grants go to city museum, Sealaska internship</a><br /></strong>MIKE MILLER<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />
2039The Alaska State Museum announced $105,600 in grants to institutions throughout the state Thursday, including a grant for the Juneau-Douglas City Museum and a smaller grant for Sealaska Heritage Institute. The two Juneau grant money beneficiaries received a combined $10,049, amounting to just over 9.5 percent of the total amount awarded between the State Museumâs 23 grants…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-07-06/grants-go-city-museum-sealaska-internship">more</a>) (7-6-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>UAF partners with Google to preserve Alaska Native languages<br /></strong>KTOO-FM<br />BY HEATHER BRYANT<br />Alaskaâs 20 native languages are a generation away from disappearing. But a new effort is adding technology to the list of tools for saving the languages. The Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has joined Google in the Endangered Languages Project, a worldwide effort to collaborate on a website where users will find comprehensive information on endangered languages…âItâs a great way to bring attention to the plight of native languages,â said Rosita Worl, president of Sealaska Heritage Institute…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoonews.org/2012/06/25/uaf-partners-with-google-to-preserve-alaska-native-languages/">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Photo: Honoring traditions in art and family<br /></strong>BY MICHAEL PENN<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Leaders of Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI), Tlingit Haida Regional Housing Authority (THRHA) and the Juneau Community Foundation talk with Ed Kunz, Jr., right, and his daughter, Micalyne Kunz McGhee, second from right, during an announcement of a partnership between SHI and THRHA to replace two totem poles and refurnish a screen at the Gajaa Hit building on Thursday…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-06-22/honoring-traditions-art-and-family">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-06-20/ferry-sailings-spike-during-celebration">Ferry sailings spike during Celebration</a><br /></strong><em>Chamber says Juneau reaps benefits of the event; ferry system serves more travelers<br /></em>BY MARK D. MILLER<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sailings to and from the Auke Bay ferry terminal were up during the week of Celebration earlier this month, according to the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities â but donât expect that bump in revenue to buoy Juneauâs economy. Nearly twice as many people traveled to or from Juneau via the Alaska Marine Highway System from June 5 to June 11 as did during the seven-day period before. The spike suggests that ferry tourism surged during the cultural festival…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-06-20/ferry-sailings-spike-during-celebration">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-06-15/study-celebration-2m-boon-local-economy">Study: Celebration a $2M boon to local economy</a><br /></strong>BY MARK D. MILLER<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Visitors to Juneau spent $1.1 million during Celebration 2012 last week, bringing a sizable amount of new revenue to the city and local businesses, according to the results of a study released Thursday by Sealaska Heritage Institute. The institute, which stages the event every two years, said the McDowell Group calculated the total economic impact of Celebration 2012 at $2 million. The 3,300 non-residents who bought tickets for the cultural festival, including Native dancers from outside Juneau, were responsible for more than half of that spending…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-06-15/study-celebration-2m-boon-local-economy">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Celebration dumps $2 million into Juneau economy, study says<br /></strong>BY ROSEMARIE ALEXANDER<br />KTOO-FM<br />Celebration 2012 reportedly brought $2 million into the Juneau economy. An economic impact study conducted by Juneau research f
2039irm McDowell Group indicates that $1.1 million is new money, brought into Juneau by visitors…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoonews.org/2012/06/15/celebration-dumps-2-million-into-juneau-economy-study-says/">more</a>) (6-15-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-06-08/grand-entrance-indeed">Photos: A grand entrance indeed</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Maka Mongure of the Mt. St. Elias Dancers of Yakutat dances off the stage in Centennial Hall during Celebration 2012’s Grand Entrance on Thursday. (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-06-08/grand-entrance-indeed">Photos</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Celebration juried art competition winners named<br /></strong>BY MATT MILLER<br />KTOO-FM<br />One of the early events of Celebration 2012 featured the announcement of winners of the juried art competition and unveiling of a month-long exhibit of their work…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoonews.org/2012/06/07/celebration-juried-art-competition-winners-named/">more</a>) (6-7-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-06-07/shis-juried-art-exhibit-opens-jacc-juneau-empire">SHI’s juried art exhibit opens at JACC</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute held an opening reception and awards ceremony for their sixth Juried Art Show and Competition Wednesday evening, naming seven winners across three categories, and recognizing 14 additional artists in the exhibit. The art show, held at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center following an informal Native Artists Gathering, is one of the first major events of Celebration 2012, which continues today and runs through Saturday…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-06-07/shis-juried-art-exhibit-opens-jacc-juneau-empire">more</a>) (6-7-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-06-06">Strengthen yourself at Celebration</a><br /></strong>BY RUSSELL STIGALL<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Southeast Alaskaâs premier Native culture, art and dance event returns to Juneau as the Sealaska Heritage Institute hosts its biennial Celebration, Juried Art Show and Native Artists Gathering this week. Celebrationâs motto this year is “Strengthen Yourself” â Ayanaltseenâa (Tlingit), ân hl is daguyâa (Haida) and Lip sha gotgyednshm (Tsimshian)…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-06-06">more</a>) (6-6-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2012/06/06/2494049/genetic-researchers-hope-to-trace.html">Genetic researchers hope to trace Raven and Eagle lineages</a><br /></strong><em>DNA study under way at Celebration<br /></em>BY MIKE DUNHAM<br />ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS<br />Alaska Natives in Juneau for this week’s Celebration gathering are being asked to participate in a DNA study that may help determine which came first — the Raven or the Eagle. Southeast Alaska Natives are identified as members of two moieties, sometimes called clans, named after those two iconic birds. People do not typically marry within their clan, and children assume the clan of their mother. The practice is widespread in the Pacific Northwest, and its ancient origins are obscure. Some indigenous groups have resisted taking part in genetic studies for various reasons, but this DNA drive is sponsored by the Sealaska Heritage Institute, a tribal organization dedicated to perpetuating and enhancing Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/index.html&layout=standard&show_faces=false&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=35">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Sealaska Heritage Institute sponsoring DNA study<br /></strong>THE ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute is sponsoring a University of Pennsylvania DNA study of North America indigenous populations. Institute officials say the principal investigator in the study, Theodore Schurr, will be at Juneau’s Centennial Hall during Celebration 2012, a Native cultural festival being held Thursday through Saturday. According to officials, the study will aim for better understanding of migration paths traveled by early humans…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2012/06/05/2492890/sealaska-heritage-institute-sponsoring.html">more</a>) (6-5-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Celebration kicks off this week in 30th year<br /></strong>FOR THE JUNEAU EMPIRE<strong><br /></strong>Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will kick off its biennial Celebration this week, marking the 30th year since the inception of the popular dance and culture festival. Celebration is a major event organized by Sealaska Heritage Institute every two years. First held in 1982, it has become the largest cultural event in the state, drawing thousands of people to the capital. Itâs a time when Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian people come together to celebrate their survival as a culture, said SHI President Rosita Worl, adding itâs also a community event open to the general public…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/node/16690">more</a>) (6-4-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Biennial Celebration starts in Juneau next week<br /></strong><em>Festival of dance, art and storytelling begins with procession<br /></em>BY MIKE DUNHAM<br />ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS<br />Celebration, one of the largest cultural events in Alaska, will take place Thursday through June 9 in Juneau. The festival of dance, art, storytelling and traditional skills of Southeast Native Alaskans is organized every two years by Sealaska Heritage Institute and draws thousands of people to the state capital…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2012/06/01/2488508/biennial-celebration-starts-in.html">more</a>) (6-1-12)</p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-05-31/upcomingart-oriented-celebration-events">Upcoming art-oriented Celebration events</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Just about every aspect of Celebration could be considered “art”–from the drumming to the dancing to the exquisitely-crafted regalia. But a few events are designed specifically to celebrate Native arts. Here’s a look at what’s coming up early next week. For more on Celebration, and a full schedule, see the Empireâs special section in this Sundayâs paper. For more on the Juried Art Show, see next weekâs Arts section…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-05-31/upcomingart-oriented-celebration-events">more</a>) (5-31-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.therepublic.com/view/story/f1f26c1183904f93a48bbd45bc3a7b37/AK--Sealaska-Scholarships/">Sealaska Heritage Institute says shareholders, descendants recipients of $401K in scholarships</a><br /></strong>THE ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute officials say the nonprofit tribal organization has awarded nearly $410,000 in scholarships to shareholders and their descendants. The scholarships are for students pursuing vocational-tech training or graduate and undergraduate degrees in the 2012-2013 school year…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.therepublic.com/view/story/f1f26c1183904f93a48bbd45bc3a7b37/AK--Sealaska-Scholarships/">more</a>) (5-22-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2012/05/04/2452125/new-book-is-guide-to-native-language.html">New book is guide to Native-language place names in Southeast</a><br /></strong>ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS<br />A 20-year project to compile Alaska Native place names in Southeast Alaska has led to a new book with about 3,000 such names, published by the University of Washington Press and the Sealaska Heritage Institute. The book, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/THOOUR.html">“Haa Leelk’w Has Aani Saax’u (Our Grandparents’ Names on the Land),”</a> also includes scholarly discussion of Southeast languages…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2012/05/04/2452125/new-book-is-guide-to-native-language.html">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-05-03/worl-receive-honorary-doctorate-university-alaska-anchorage">
2039Worl to receive honorary doctorate from University of Alaska Anchorage</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The University of Alaska Anchorage will award SHI President Rosita Worl with an honorary doctor of sciences degree. The award will be made Sunday, May 6, at the universityâs 2012 commencement ceremony at the George Sullivan Arena in Anchorage. Worl is one of four people, including former Gov. Tony Knowles, who will receive honorary degrees at the event…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-05-03/worl-receive-honorary-doctorate-university-alaska-anchorage">more</a>) (5-3-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-05-01/volunteers-needed-celebration-2012">Volunteers needed for Celebration 2012</a><br /></strong>BY JUNEAU EMPIRE STAFF<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute is looking for able and willing bodies to volunteer time and talent to its biennial festival of Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian tribal members. (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/celebration/index.htm">bit.ly/IkNPYf</a>) Celebration is a biennial festival of Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian tribal members organized every two years by Sealaska Heritage Institute…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-05-01/volunteers-needed-celebration-2012">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Place names book documents Southeast Alaska history<br /></strong>by Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska News<br />Whatâs in a name? If itâs a beach or a mountain or a stream, it can tell you what it looks like â or whoâs been there. It can also document a change of ownership or geography â or the movement of a people. A new book from the Sealaska Heritage Institute and the University of Washington Press presents about 3,000 Southeast Alaska Native place names. Many came close to being lost, replaced by western labels…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/2012/04/27/place-names-book-documents-southeast-history/">more</a>) (4-30-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Sealaska Heritage Institute releases cultural atlas<br /></strong>FAIRBANKS DAILY NEWS-MINER<br />JUNEAU, Alaska â “Haa Leelk’w Has Aan’ Saaxu: Our Grandparents’ Names on the Land,” might seem at first glance to be an academic work, not easily accessible to or designed for the general public. But this important book, released Friday by Sealaska Heritage Institute, becomes less intimidating when viewed as a different kind of atlas, a rich geographical and cultural reference, all the more fascinating for its ability to reintroduce us to the place we live…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/newsminer.com/view/full_story/18394956/article-Sealaska-Institute-releases-cultural-atlas?instance=home_news_window_left_bullets#ixzz1tXb2mwlr">more</a>) (4-28-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-04-26/shi-launches-box-knowledge-occasional-papers">SHI launches Box of Knowledge occasional papers</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has launched a series of occasional papers on Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian studies in an effort to disseminate research more widely and to circulate work that has not been published. The series, Box of Knowledge, will include essays or reports by researchers working with the institute, contributions prepared by external experts, and work by staff, said SHI President Rosita Worl…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-04-26/shi-launches-box-knowledge-occasional-papers">more</a>) (4-26-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.akbizmag.com/Alaska-Business-Monthly/April-2012/SHI-launches-Box-of-Knowledge-Occasional-Papers-First-volume-explores-Tlingit-holdings-at-international-museums/">SHI launches box of Knowledge Occasional Papers</a><br /></strong>ALASKA BUSINESS MONTHLY<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has launched a series of occasional papers on Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian studies in an effort to disseminate research more widely and to circulate work that has not been published…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.akbizmag.com/Alaska-Business-Monthly/April-2012/SHI-launches-Box-of-Knowledge-Occasional-Papers-First-volume-explores-Tlingit-holdings-at-international-museums/">more</a>) (4-21-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-04-19/sealaska-heritage-partner-jsd-uas">Sealaska Heritage to partner with JSD, UAS</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE STAFF REPORT<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has signed a memorandum of agreement with the Juneau School District and University of Alaska Southeastâs Juneau Campus in an effort to increase the communication and collaboration among the organizations…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-04-19/sealaska-heritage-partner-jsd-uas">more</a>) (4-19-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-04-19/new-kind-atlas-southeast">A new kind of atlas for Southeast</a><br /></strong>By Amy Fletcher<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />âHaa Leelkâw Has Aanâ Saaxu: Our Grandparentsâ Names on the Land,â might seem at first glance to be an academic work, not easily accessible to or designed for the general public. But this important book, released Frid
2039ay by Sealaska Heritage Institute, becomes less intimidating when viewed as a different kind of atlas, a rich geographical and cultural reference, all the more fascinating for its ability to reintroduce us to the place we live. âI hope people who are interested in the region will think of it like an atlas, but also almost like an instrument â to reorient the way they think about the region of Southeast Alaska, or maybe just the places theyâve known,â said editor Thomas Thornton…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-04-19/new-kind-atlas-southeast">more</a>) (4-19-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-04-12/shi-publishes-atlas-native-place-names#comment-43248">SHI publishes atlas of Native place names</a><br /></strong><em>Author Thornton will be in Juneau at noon Friday in the lobby of the Sealaska building<br /></em>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has published a landmark book documenting more than 3,000 Native place names and their locations in Southeast Alaska. Nearly 20 years in the making, âHaa Lâelkâw Hâs Aanâ Saaxââ: Our Grandparentsâ Names on the Land,â compiled by Thomas Thornton, is the most comprehensive study of its kind. SHI will host a book signing with Thornton from noon to 1 pm, Friday, April 13, in the lobby of the Sealaska building in Juneau…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-04-12/shi-publishes-atlas-native-place-names#comment-43248">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/041112/new_978831710.shtml">SHI publishes landmark atlas</a><br /></strong>FOR THE CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has published a landmark book documenting more than 3,000 Native place names and their locations in Southeast Alaska. Nearly 20 years in the making, “Haa Lâelk’w Hâs Aanâ Saax’â: Our Grandparents’ Names on the Land,” is the most comprehensive study of its kind…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/041112/new_978831710.shtml">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktva.com/home/outboun
2039d-xml-feeds/Whats-In-a-Name-Sealaska-Heritage-Institute-Works-to-Preserve-Native-Alaskan-History-146377965.html">What’s in a name? Sealaska Heritage Institute works to preserve Native Alaskan history</a><br /></strong>By Kirsten Swann<br />KTVA-TV<br />ALASKA â Dzantikâi Hâeni: The words mean âFlounder at the base of the creek,â and on a map they refer to the wooded area east of Alaskaâs capital city.The Tlingit phrase is one of more than 3,000 memorialized in a recently published atlas of Native Alaskan place names released by the Sealaska Heritage Institute. President Rosita Worl said the names denote everything from geographical markers to cultural uses and resources…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktva.com/home/outbound-xml-feeds/Whats-In-a-Name-Sealaska-Heritage-Institute-Works-to-Preserve-Native-Alaskan-History-146377965.html">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-04-05/shi-awarded-grant-program-teach-formline#.T33ym9mP9BU">SHI awarded grant for program to teach formline</a><br /></strong>FOR THE JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has received a grant to establish a Native art academy in an effort to ensure younger artists are learning formlineâ the basis of Northwest Coast art. Formline is a term that describes the complex designs, such as ovoids and split Us, which are the underlying components of the distinctive art of the region. the $517,500 grant from the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation will help artists at all levels to learn and enhance their formline…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-04-05/shi-awarded-grant-program-teach-formline#.T33ym9mP9BU">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-04-04/grant-funds-native-art-academy-500000-teach-northwest-coast-formline">Grant funds Native art academy $500,000 to teach Northwest Coast formline</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />A half-million dollar grant from the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation has allowed Sealaska Heritage Institute to start a three-year project called the Jinâit Art Academy – Jinâit means handmade. Under the grant, artists of all skill levels can develop their formline in the artistsâ chosen medium, according to a Sealaska Heritage Institute press release…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-04-04/grant-funds-native-art-academy-500000-teach-northwest-coast-formline">more</a>) (4-4-12)</p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-03-29/hoonah-weavers-study-ancestors-work-smithsonian-institution">Hoonah weavers study ancestors’ work at Smithsonian Institution</a><br /></strong>FOR THE JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Five master weavers from Hoonah traveled to Washington, D.C., last week to study hundreds of Tlingit and Haida woven artifacts in the Smithsonian Institutionâs collections…Each of the master weavers has participated in Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs Northwest Coast Art Certificate Program with a specialty in basketry or attended Northwest Coast Art Basketry classes at University of Alaska Southeast…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-03-29/hoonah-weavers-study-ancestors-work-smithsonian-institution">more</a>) (3-29-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/neighbors/2012-03-04/shi-sponsor-latseen-leadership-academy">SHI to sponsor Latseen Leadership Academy</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Applications are now available for Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs eighth annual Latseen Leadership Academy. The training is designed to provide engaging culturally-based education and activities for junior high school students in support of their future academic and personal success with a focus on rigor, relevance, and relationships…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/neighbors/2012-03-04/shi-sponsor-latseen-leadership-academy">more</a>) (3-4-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/022212/new_959296823.shtml">Applications accepted for juried art competition</a><br /></strong>
2039CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is now accepting applications for its juried art show and competition. Native artists ages 16 and under can compete in a new category added this year for young artists. The show and competition will occur during Celebration 2012, June 7-9. The event showcases a broad range of pieces made by the indigenous people of Southeast Alaska…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/022212/new_959296823.shtml">more</a>) (2-22-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/sports/2012-02-15/2012-native-youth-olympics-results">2012 Native youth olympics results</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />By Klas Stolpe<br />The results of the 2012 Native Youth Olympics, held at Riverbend Elementary School were not just about who won, or who placed, but about the knowledge gained through a month of cultural study leading up to the competitions. The event was sponsored by Sealaska Heritage Institute…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/sports/2012-02-15/2012-native-youth-olympics-results">more</a>) (2-15-12) (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/sports/2012-02-15/elementary-school-native-youth-olympic-celebration#1">Photos</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/neighbors/2012-02-12-3">SHI accepting applications for juried art show</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is accepting applications for its sixth, biennial Juried Art Show and Competition during Celebration 2012, scheduled June 7-9 in Juneau. For the first time, Native artists who are under the age of 16 will be able to compete in the event, which showcases a broad range of pieces made by the indigenous people of Southeast Alaska…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/neighbors/2012-02-12-3">more</a>) (2-12-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/state/2012-02-06/opposition-selling-otter-pelts-non-natives">Opposition to selling otter pelts to non-Natives</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />By Russell Stigall<br />Sea otter management resolution seeks to give added economic benefit to SE sea otter cull. House Joint Resolution 26 seeks to set a course for management of the reintroduced sea otter population of Southeast Alaska….This section of the resolution did not sit well with the Alaska Federation of Natives and Sealaska Corp. by way of the testimony of AFN board member and Sealaska Heritage Institute President, Rosita Worl…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/state/2012-02-06/opposition-selling-otter-pelts-non-natives">more</a>) (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/gavelalaska.org/media/?media_id=HRES120203A">Video</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.alaskapublic.org/2012/02/01/bill-would-help-preserve-alaska-native-languages/">Bill would help preserve Alaska Native languages</a><br /></strong>Alaska Public Radio Network (APRN)<br />Ben Matheson<br />The Alaska Senate State Affairs committee heard testimony Tuesday on Senator Donny Olsonâs bill to create an Alaska Native Language Preservation and Advisory Council. Annette Evans Smith, the President of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.alaskanative.net/">Alaska Native Heritage Center</a>, says the time for action on keeping languages alive is now…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.alaskapublic.org/2012/02/01/bill-would-help-preserve-alaska-native-languages/">more</a>) (2-1-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120509110335/http://www.adn.com:80/2012/02/01/2294246/rural-lawmaker-wants-council-on.html">Rural lawmaker wants council on Alaska Native languages</a><br /></strong>ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS<br />By Austin Baird<br />Linguists and Native groups from across Alaska are lining up behind a proposal aimed at preserving and revitalizing the state’s 20 Native languages…Sen. Donald Olson, D-Nome, is recommending that the state create the Alaska Native Language Preservation Council, which would advise the governor on programs and projects that will make the most of resources available to Native groups…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2012/02/01/2294246/rural-lawmaker-wants-council-on.html?story_link=email_msg">more</a>) (2-1-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/FA_Feb_Soboleff.pdf">Century of Soboleff</a></strong><br /><em>Words of grace for a century</em><br />The teacher pulled aside the Tlingit boy, whose rapt attention he secured to deliver an indelible message. He said to young Walter Soboleff: “Take care of the old person you are going to become.” “
2039I never forgot that,” Soboleff says. “At first I thought it was a very strange talk. But it just remained with me…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/FA_Feb_Soboleff.pdf">more</a>) (February/March 2011 edition)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/012512/new_946325432.shtml">Scholar donates Haida archives</a><br /></strong>CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY<br />An anthropologist who studied the city of Hydaburg and the Haida history and culture has donated his field work and doctoral papers to Sealaska Heritige Institute (SHI). Dan Vaughan, Ph.D., worked in Hydaburg as a cultural anthropologist for the University of Washington from 1974 to 1984…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/012512/new_946325432.shtml">more</a>) (1-25-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-01-19-7">SHI to sponsor formline workshop</a><br /></strong>The Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor an all-levels workshop on formline design taught by Steve Brown on Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 21-22 in Juneau. According to a release from Sealaska, Brown is a master of formline and Northwest Coast art history..(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2012-01-19-7">more</a>) (1-19-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2012/01/18/2270194/sealaska-gets-papers-fieldwork.html">Sealaska gets papers, fieldwork on Haida culture</a><br /></strong>Associated Press<br />JUNEAU–The papers and fieldwork of an anthropologist who worked in the Southeast Alaska city of Hydaburg studying the Haida culture have a new home. Dan Vaughan, a former cultural anthropologist for the University of Washington, has donated his work to the Sealaska Heritage Institute…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2012/01/18/2270194/sealaska-gets-papers-fieldwork.html">more</a>) (1-18-12)</p><p><strong>Sealaska offers scholarship bonus<br /></strong>Ed Schoenfeld<br />CoastAlaska<br />Descendents of Sealaska shareholders have until March to apply for corporate scholarships. But those submitting applications this month will receive an extra $50. About 400 college, university and vocational school students receive the scholarships every year. The money comes from Sealaska, the regional Native corporation for Southeast. Itâs distributed by the Sealaska Heritage Institute, the businessesâ cultural arm…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoonews.org/2012/01/06/sealaska-offers-scholarship-bonus/">more</a>) (1-6-12)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a id="2011" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-01-04/shi-opens-scholarship-application-period-juneau-empire-staff-report">SHI opens scholarship application period</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute is accepting applications for the 2012-2013 college and vocational school year. Awards will be made to Sealaska shareholders and descendants enrolled in accredited colleges, universities and voc-tech schools. About 400 students receive the scholarships each year..(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2012-01-04/shi-opens-scholarship-application-period-juneau-empire-staff-report">more</a>) (1-4-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-11-30/native-culture-topic-last-lecture-shi-lecture-series">Native culture topic of last lecture in SHI lecture series</a><br /></strong>By RUSSELL STIGALL<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />âOur Tlingit tradition is an oral tradition, said state Sen. Albert Kookesh as he introduced Sealaska Board Vice Chair and President of Sealaska Heritage Institute Rosita Worl â the final speaker in the Native American Heritage Month lecture series. âAnd she is very, very versed in that area,â Kookesh said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-11-30/native-culture-topic-last-lecture-shi-lecture-series">more</a>) (11-30-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>ANCSA: Assimilation or cultural survival?<br /></strong>Ed Schoenfeld<br />JUNEAU<br />Is the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act a path to assimilation or a means of cultural survival? Thatâs the question posed by Sealaska Heritage Institute President Rosita Worl. She spoke Monday (this week) as part of a Juneau lecture series focu
2039sing on ANCSA, which has its 40th anniversary next month…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/kfsk.org/modules/local_news/index.php?op=centerBlock&syndicated=true&ID=2077">more</a>) (11-29-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-11-22/sealaska-president-urges-unity-development-southeast-resources">Sealaska president urges unity in development of Southeast resources</a><br /></strong><em>McNeil featured at SHI brown bag lecture series<br /></em>By RUSSELL STIGALL<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Corp. President and CEO Chris McNeil told a full house in Sealaskaâs fourth floor conference room that Native corporations, tribes and villages must work together to manage the use of the regionâs natural resources over the long term. McNeil spoke on the legal status of Alaska Native corporations and economic self-determination during the latest in Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs noon lecture series…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-11-22/sealaska-president-urges-unity-development-southeast-resources">more</a>) (11-22-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-11-18/native-leader-seeks-stronger-ties-between-tribes-corps">Native leader seeks stronger ties between tribes, corps</a><br /></strong>By Russell Stigall<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The room on the fourth floor of Sealaska Plaza was packed with more than 30 people. Theyâd gathered as part of Native Alaskan Heritage Month to hear Edward Thomas, president, Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska and a director on Sealaska Corp.âs board speak about tribes and Native corporations…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-11-18/native-leader-seeks-stronger-ties-between-tribes-corps">more</a>) (11-18-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2011-11-03/shi-native-american-heritage-month-lecture-series-begins-friday">SHI Native American Heritage Month lecture series begins Friday</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The first lecture in Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs November noon lecture series will be held on Friday. âANCSA: Good or Bad?â led by First Alaskans Institute Fellow Byron Mallott begins at noon in the boardroom at Sealaska Plaza. The series, organized to celebrate Native American Heritage Month in November, focuses on the impact of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, passed by Congress 40 years ago…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2011-11-03/shi-native-american-heritage-month-lecture-series-begins-friday">more</a>) (11-3-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-10-27/shi-host-brown-bag-lecture-series-alaska-native-claims-settlement-act"><strong>SHI to host </strong><strong> brown-bag lecture series on Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act</strong></a><strong><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE STAFF REPORT<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor a noon lecture series to celebrate Native American Heritage Month in November. The series will focus on the impact of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, or ANSCA.Congress passed ANSCA 40 years ago…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-10-27/shi-host-brown-bag-lecture-series-alaska-native-claims-settlement-act">more</a>) (10-27-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Sealaska Heritage Institute to sponsor lecture series for Native American Heritage Month<br /></strong>ALASKA BUSINESS MONTHLY<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a noon lecture series to celebrate Native American Heritage Month in November.The brown-bag lunch series will focus on the impact of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) which was passed by Congress forty years ago, said SHI President Rosita Worl, adding Tlingit and Haida and Sealaska Corporation also will sponsor a November luncheon in recognition of ANCSA…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/akbizmag.com/alaska-news-list/15629-sealaska-heritage-institute-to-sponsor-lecture-series-for-native-american-heritage-month.html">more</a>) (10-25-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-10-23/worl-named-citizen-year-afn">Worl named Citizen of the Year by AFN</a><br /></strong>By Emily Russo Miller<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />
2039The Alaska Federation of Natives on Friday awarded its highest honor, the Citizen of the Year award, to Juneau Resident Rosita Worl, president of Sealaska Heritage Institute. AFN President Julie Kitka lauded Worl, an Eagle from the Shangukeidâ Clan and the House Lowered from the Sun in Klukwan whose Tlingit names are Yâidiklatsâokw and Kaahanâ, for her lifelong dedication to helping Native people throughout the state during the AFN annual convention in Anchorage…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-10-23/worl-named-citizen-year-afn">more</a>) (10-23-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-10-20/shi-receives-grant-study-historic-tlingit-recordings">SHI receives grant to study historic Tlingit recordings</a><br /></strong>By Russell Stigall<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />From the early 1900s to the present, audio recording technology has undergone several major advancements. From vinyl records to magnetic tape to optical disc and most recently magnetic disc drive and Flash memory…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-10-20/shi-receives-grant-study-historic-tlingit-recordings">more</a>) (10-20-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2011-10-20/shi-solicits-articles-box-knowledge">SHI solicits articles for Box of Knowledge</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The Sealaska Heritage Institute is soliciting essay-length articles for its new âBox of Knowledge Occasional Papersâ series. The institute welcomes submissions dealing with all aspects of Alaska Native life, including history, anthropology, archaeology, art history, political science, linguistics, sociology, and literature…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2011-10-20/shi-solicits-articles-box-knowledge">more</a>) (10-20-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.alaskadispatch.com/article/grant-allows-sealaska-heritage-digitize-historic-recordings">Grant allows Sealaska Heritage to digitize historic recordings</a><br /></strong>ALASKA DISPATCH<br />According to a press release, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/">Sealaska Heritage Institute</a> (SHI), a regional nonprofit representing the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people of Southeast Alaska, has received a federal grant to research and migrate old Tlingit language recordings to a format that will make them more accessible to modern-day Native language students and scholars…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.alaskadispatch.com/article/grant-allows-sealaska-heritage-digitize-historic-recordings">more</a>) (10-19-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Basketry-ascends-">Basketry’s renewed popularity seen at Indian Market</a><br /></strong>SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN<br />The Chippewa and Potawatomi use the bark and wood of black ash trees in southwest Michigan â the same tree that the Seneca and Onondaga Iroquois harvest in upstate New York. Navajo basketmakers in New Mexico and Arizona harvest sumac for their colorful flat vessels…Holly Churchill’s family has been part of the basket renaissance among the Haida people. She learned from her grandmother and from her mother, who taught uncountable others the traditional methods for collecting cedar and shaping it into baskets…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Basketry-ascends-">more</a>) (8-20-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-08-10/alaska-native-art-culture-be-showcased#comments">Alaska Native art, culture to be showcased</a><br /></strong>By Klas Stolpe<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />A group of Southeast Alaskan Native artists will be showcasing this region’s indigenous art and culture at New Mexico’s Santa Fe Indian Market in an effort to educate and attract art enthusiasts and collectors and develop a similar gathering in Juneau…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-08-10/alaska-native-art-culture-be-showcased#comments">more</a>) (8-11-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-08-01/teaching-vanishing-native-languages">Teaching vanishing Native languages</a><br /></strong>By Jonathan Grass<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />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. In fact, the Native institute has just introduced a new Tlingit language card program as part of this mission. The program is a set of flash cards and audio CDs to help gain efficie
2039ncy in the alphabet…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-08-01/teaching-vanishing-native-languages">more</a>) (8-1-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-07-30/former-kake-family-heirloom-ordinance-de-armed-deactivated">Former Kake family heirloom ordnance dearmed, deactivated</a><br /></strong>By Klas Stolpe<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The Organized Village of Kake (OVK) with the assistance of the Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) diffused the historic Civil War Parrott Shell ordnance that a Kake family had passed among family members for decades. âIt has been in our family over 100 years,â Kake elder Michael Jackson said when State Troopers and Elmendorf Air Force explosives experts had first traveled to Kake to investigate the shell on June 23, 2011…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-07-30/former-kake-family-heirloom-ordinance-de-armed-deactivated">more</a>) (7-30-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.alaskapublic.org/2011/07/26/language-tool-teaches-tlingit-alphabet/">Language tool teaches Tlingit alphabet</a><br /></strong>Ed Schoenfeld<br />Do you want to learn Tlingit? You could start with the 50 letters, including some sounds that are not found in other languages. A new online tool, plus a note-card-and-audio system, is aimed at children. But it can help students of any age…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.alaskapublic.org/2011/07/26/language-tool-teaches-tlingit-alphabet/">more</a>) (7-25-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2011-07-20/shi-releases-tlingit-alphabet-cards-online-tools">SHI releases Tlingit alphabet cards, online tools</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has released flash cards, an audio CD and an online interactive tool designed to teach the Tlingit alphabet to young people. The materials feature original, whimsical art and are meant to provide a fun way for kids to interact and become familiar with the Tlingit alphabet. Each card includes a character in the Tlingit alphabet, a Tlingit word that uses that character and an image depicting the Tlingit word, said Linda Belarde, who writes curriculum with a focus on the Tlingit language for the institute…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2011-07-20/shi-releases-tlingit-alphabet-cards-online-tools">more</a>) (7-21-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/07/sealaska-heritage-institute-awards-second-judson-l-brown-leadership-award/">Sealaska Heritage Institute awards second Judson L. Brown leadership award</a><br /></strong>INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY<br />SHI recently awarded a $5,000 scholarship to Helen Dianne Dangel to assist her in her pursuit of a masterâs degree in psychology at Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling…âI think my uncle would be very proud of Helen and her vision to serve Native people with her lifeâs work,â <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaska.com/page/chris_mcneil">Chris McNeil Jr.</a>, president and CEO of Sealaska Corporation, said in the release. He and his wife Mary established the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_mcneil_donation_2006.htm">Judson L. Brown Leadership Award</a> in 2006 with an endowment of $100,000…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/07/sealaska-heritage-institute-awards-second-judson-l-brown-leadership-award/">more</a>) (7-21-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/index.html">Ancient, moss-covered canoe found in Alaska forest</a></strong><br />By Yereth Rosen<br />Reuters<br />An unfinished Indian canoe, apparently abandoned 500 years ago, has been discovered in a remote section of an Alaska rain forest, according to officials. The canoe, carved from cedar, was discovered under a thick layer of moss and is surrounded by trees that are several hundred years old, Sealaska Corp., the Alaska Native corporation that owns the land, said in a statement…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/index.html">more</a>) (7-14-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2011/07/12/1964710/canoe-as-old-as-500-years-found.html">Canoe found in Southeast may be 500 years old</a><br /></strong><em>Ancient tools were used to hew wood in 34-foot craft<br /></em>By MIKE DUNHAM | ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS<br />A centuries-old Haida canoe has been discovered near the Prince of Wales Island village of Kasaan, Sealaska Corp. announced Tuesday. Work on the nearly 34-foot vessel may have stopped around the same time that Columbus sailed from Spain…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2011/07/12/1964710/canoe-as-old-as-500-years-found.html">more</a>) (7-13-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-07-12/foresters-find-historic-canoe-price-wales-island">Foresters find historic canoe on Prince of Wales Island</a><br /></strong><em>Partially-complete artifact could become model for modern craftsmen<br /></em>By Pat Forgey | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska foresters working on Prince of Wales Island have unearthed a partially complete Haida canoe from the forest floor, and are estimating its age at more than 100 years old. A Sealaska Timber Corp. surveyor working in the area during the winter discovered the canoe. Later, when snow melted, it was confirmed to be an ancient canoe, the company said. Several cedar trees in the area appear to have been felled with traditional tools, and the canoe was constructed with traditional tools, said Sealaska Heritage Institute officials…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-07-12/foresters-find-historic-canoe-price-wales-island">more</a>) (7-13-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-07-11/sealaska-heritage-institute-gets-support-legislature">Sealaska Heritage Institute gets support from Legislature</a><br /></strong><em>Additional fundraising needed to complete downtown center<br /></em>By Pat Forgey | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs Native cultural center, named after Dr. Walter Soboleff, is expected to give a big push to the study and preservation of Alaska Native history, culture, art and language. The centerâs building is located across from Sealaska Corp.âs headquarters on a
2039site that once was a downtown eyesore. It is also expected to give a boost to the cityâs center. Sealaska officials are showing off a new architectâs model of the $22.5 million building, as they continue fundraising to get it built…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-07-11/sealaska-heritage-institute-gets-support-legislature">more</a>) (7-12-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-06-23/aged-bomb-kake-gets-official-inspection">Aged bomb in Kake gets official inspection</a><br /></strong><em>Family heirloom a reminder of clashes with government<br /></em>By Klas Stolpe | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Della Cheney remembers playing with a family heirloom growing up, a rather strange looking metallic object that wasnât easily moved about. âIt was very heavy,â Cheney said. âAt least 25 pounds.â The heirloom? A roughly 12-inch long, 30-pound unexploded round of ammunition that struck the village more than 140 years ago. Or in the words of one of the descendants who found the shell resting on the other side of a hole in a Southeast rainforest soaked stump, âIt was an annoying object when you stubbed your toe on it but a great conversation piece…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-06-23/aged-bomb-kake-gets-official-inspection">more</a>) (6-23-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/062211/new_847585024.shtml">Students encouraged to sign up for STAR program</a><br /></strong><em>Capital City Weekly<br /></em>Summer is here and it is time to get those kids, grandkids, and neighbors signed up for Perseverance Theatre’s Summer Theatre Arts Rendezvous (STAR). Rehearsals and classes begin July 11. This five-week program is perfect for students ages 10-18 who are enthusiastic about theatre. A limited number of full scholarships for Alaska Native students are available thanks to the support of Sealaska Heritage Institute…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/062211/new_847585024.shtml">more</a>) (6-22-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-06-20/new-internship-seeks-get-native-students-involved-museums-preservation-work">New internship seeks to get Native students involved in museums, preservation work</a></strong><br />By Jonathan Grass | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has just joined with the University of Alaska Southeast in an internship program to encourage more Native archivists and museum curators. SHI archivist said that more Natives are needed in these fields that are devoted to the preservation of their cultures. âThis field certainly needs diversity. Especially with museum materials, itâs important to have Natives working in their museums…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-06-20/new-internship-seeks-get-native-students-involved-museums-preservation-work">more</a>) (6-21-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sitnews.us/0611News/061711/061711_first_intern.html">New internship program fosters more Native archivists</a><br /></strong>SitNews<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has joined with a state university in an internship program designed to foster more archivists and museum curators. SHIâs first Tlingit intern under the program, founded this year by the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS), was just accepted into graduate school to pursue a career in archives and given a full scholarship…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sitnews.us/0611News/061711/061711_first_intern.html">more</a>) (6-20-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-06-08/360-north-plans-soboleff-coverage-friday">
2039360 North plans Soboleff coverage Friday</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE STAFF REPORT<strong><br /></strong>360 North is planning an evening of programming dedicated to Walter Soboleff on Friday. The celebrated Tlingit elder, educator and Presbyterian minister died May 22 at the age of 102…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-06-08/360-north-plans-soboleff-coverage-friday">more</a>) (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/gavelalaska.org/media/?media_id=SPEC110528A">Web Link</a>) (6-8-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-05-25">SHI awards nearly $450K in scholarships</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE STAFF REPORT<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has awarded approximately $447,000 in scholarships to Sealaska shareholders and descendants and given a leadership award from a separate endowment to a student pursuing her masterâs degree. The awards, funded mostly by Sealaska Corporation, will help students pursuing graduate and undergraduate degrees and vo-tech training for the 2011-2012 school year. A portion also will fund heritage studies, language studies and culture camps. SHI President Rosita Worl said the scholarships for university and voc-tech studies went to 356 Alaska Natives…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-05-25">more</a>) (5-25-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/wasillaalaskaby300.squarespace.com/journal/2011/5/24/in-honor-of-dr-walter-soboleff-who-has-left-after-more-than.html">In honor of Dr. Walter Soboleff, who has left after more than 102 years amongst us</a></strong><br />By BILL HESS<strong><br /></strong>Yesterday afternoon I learned that Dr. Walter Soboleff <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/state/2011-05-22/noted-tlingit-elder-walter-soboleff-dies">had passed away in Juneau</a> Sunday at the age of 102. So I have postponed for tomorrow what I had planned for today in order to dedicate this post solely to his memory and honor. I am not going to write much about him right now, save to say that he was truly one of the most honorable, decent, and gentle men that I have ever met and that he was truly a giant in shaping those parts of modern-day Alaska that are good. It did not matter if one was Native, white, black, Asian or other – in the presence of Dr. Walter Soboleff, one felt only love and warmth – and this was true even if what Dr. Soboleff was doing was fighting for Native rights. I know, because I personally felt that warmth and love and I could see that all who came into his presence also felt it…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/wasillaalaskaby300.squarespace.com/journal/2011/5/24/in-honor-of-dr-walter-soboleff-who-has-left-after-more-than.html">more</a>) (5-24-11)</p><p><strong>Murkowski remembers reverend Dr. Walter Soboleff<br /></strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.akbizmag.com/">www.akbizmag.com</a><br />Mr. President, it was only a few short years ago, in October of 2008, that I stood before this body to honor one of Alaska’s most cherished elders, the Reverend Doctor Walter A. Soboleff, in commemoration of his 100<sup>th</sup> birthday. Today, I come before you with a heavy heart, to share with you news of the passing of that distinguished and revered Tlingit elder and leader. On this day I ask that we honor the life of an extraordinary man and remember his inspirational journey…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.akbizmag.com/more/11770-murkowski-remembers-reverend-doctor-walter-soboleff.html">more</a>)</p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2011/05/23/1877936/tlingit-leader-soboleff-dead-at.html">Tlingit leader Soboleff, dead at 102, celebrated tolerance</a><br /></strong>By KLAS STOLPE<br />Juneau Empire<br />JUNEAU — Longtime Juneau and Alaska Tlingit spiritual leader, elder statesman and Native icon Walter Soboleff died early Sunday in his home, surrounded by family. According to daughter Janet Burke, Soboleff died from bone cancer and prostate cancer. “Memorial services are pending,” Burke said. “No date is set yet. This very quickly can get out of our hands because we know the scope of our father’s influence on so many people. When we think of him we think of the knowledge he had, the knowledge of his culture and the love for his family. That was so important to him. …(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2011/05/23/1877936
2039/tlingit-leader-soboleff-dead-at.html">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/thebristolbaytimes.com/article/1121soboleffs_efforts_for_natives_spanned_a">Soboleff’s efforts for Natives spanned a century</a><br /></strong>The Bristol Bay Times<br />A Tlingit elder known for his wisdom, attentive ear and reassuring smile – all underscored by deep faith – has died Sunday.The Rev. Walter A. Soboleff Sr. was 102. Soboleff was born on Nov. 14, 1908, in Killisnoo a village that once existed in Southeast Alaska. He attended two schools in Sitka before getting his attended the University of Dubuque in Iowa, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in divinity.He returned to Alaska, this time Juneau, where he began a career in ministry with messages that eventually reached Southeast villages and even small Yukon towns. “I sat in front of the radio and listened to Walter every Sunday,” said Bill Thomas, a state representative who grew up in Haines. “He always said, ‘I’m proud of you.’ He meant it”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/thebristolbaytimes.com/article/1121soboleffs_efforts_for_natives_spanned_a">more</a>) (5-23-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/state/2011-05-22/noted-tlingit-elder-walter-soboleff-dies">Noted Tlingit elder Walter Soboleff dies</a><br /></strong>By Klas Stolpe | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br /><em>Editor’s note: Information from the Empire’s archives contributed to this report.<br /></em>Long time Juneau and Alaska Tlingit spiritual leader, elder statesman, and native icon Walter Soboleff died early Sunday morning in his home, surrounded by family. According to daughter Janet Burke, Soboleff died from bone cancer and prostate cancer. âMemorial services are pending,â Burke said. âNo date is set yet. This very quickly can get out of our hands because we know the scope of our fatherâs influence on so many people. When we think of him we think of the knowledge he had, the knowledge of his culture and the love for his family. That was so important to him.â Soboleff had turned 102 years old on Nov. 14, 2010…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/state/2011-05-22/noted-tlingit-elder-walter-soboleff-dies">more</a>) (5-22-11)</p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2011-04-27/city-museum-offer-annual-workshops-local-history-and-culture">City museum to offer annual workshops on local history and culture</a></strong><strong><br /></strong><em>Contemporary Expressions of Traditional Tlingit Culture</em>: Learn about Tlingit culture, social structure and contemporary issues with culture and language specialist Linda Belarde from the Sealaska Heritage Institute. This workshop<em> </em>will be offered by the Juneau city museum from 6-8:30 p.m. on Monday, May 2, from and will be repeated at the same time on Tuesday, May 3…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/art/2011-04-27/city-museum-offer-annual-workshops-local-history-and-culture">more</a>) (4-27-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-04-13/worl-receives-lifetime-achievement-award">Worl receives lifetime achievement award</a><br /></strong>By Jonathan Grass | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute President Rosita Worl received the Lifetime Achievement Award at this yearâs Tlingit and Haida Tribal Assembly. Worl has a long and varied history as an authority in tribal matters.âItâs a great honor to be recognized by your tribe and your people,â said Worl. âMy mother always taught us that we donât need to speak about ourselves because if youâre worthy of being known, people who you are. I guess Iâve arrived at that point in my life”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/local/2011-04-13/worl-receives-lifetime-achievement-award">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/03/sealaska-heritage-institute-accepting-applications-for-latseen-leadership-academy/">Sealaska Heritage Institute Accepting Applications for Latseen Leadership Academy</a></strong><br />
2039INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY<br /><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/index.htm">Sealaska Heritage Institute</a> is accepting applications through June 10 to attend its <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/programs/latseen_summer_camps.htm">Latseen Leadership Academy</a> held in Juneau, Alaska.According to SealaskaHeritage.org, the academy âis designed to provide engaging culturally-based education and activities for youth in support of their future academic and personal success with a focus on rigor, relevance, and relationships.â Participants can make traditional drums, learn how to fillet salmon and prepare traditional foods, as well as learn Native languages.The academy is for Sealaska shareholders or shareholder descendants entering sixth, seventh and eighth grades…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/03/sealaska-heritage-institute-accepting-applications-for-latseen-leadership-academy/">more</a>) 3-17-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/031711/loc_800867895.shtml">Sealaska Heritage Institute opens applications for academy</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute is accepting applications to attend its annual Latseen Leadership Academy in Juneau. This yearâs camp is for incoming sixth- to eighth-grade students who are Sealaska shareholders or shareholder descendants. Full scholarships are available…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/031711/loc_800867895.shtml">more</a>) (3-17-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/020811/loc_782430748.shtml">Cultural objects returning to Hoonah after 80 years</a><br /></strong>By Jonathan Grass | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Eight Native cultural objects are returning home after a long struggle following an even longer absence. The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has sent a letter to the Tâakdeintaan Clan, Snail House, of Hoonah, saying it plans to return eight objects the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review Committee recently deemed the rightful property of the clan under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGRA. The clan has been trying to reclaim 50 objects from the museum for 16 years…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/020811/loc_782430748.shtml">more</a>) (2-8-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/community.adn.com/adn/node/155400">Sealaska buys 100-year-old Haida mat using PFD donations</a></strong><br />Anchorage Daily News<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has acquired a rare, cedar-bark Haida mat traditionally used as bedding or as room dividers in clan houses plus two old halibut hooks…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/community.adn.com/adn/node/155400">more</a>) (1-4-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/krbd.org/modules/local_news/index.php?op=sideBlock&syndicated=true&ID=1580">Sealaska scholarship program goes online</a><br /></strong>Ed Schoenfeld<br />Applications are now available for Sealaska’s college scholarship program. For the first time, shareholders and lineal descendants can apply online…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/krbd.org/modules/local_news/index.php?op=sideBlock&syndicated=true&ID=1580">more</a>) (1-4-11)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Anonymous donor gives collection of Native objects to Sealaska Heritage Institute<br /></strong>INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY<br />An anonymous donor who wanted his collection of Native cultural objects to go home has given 15 pieces that date at least to the early 1900s to Sealaska Heritage Institute. The collection includes some very important ceremonial pieces, said SHI President Rosita Worl…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/Anonymous-donor-gives-collection-of-Native-objects-to-Sealaska-Heritage-Institute-112083524.html">more</a>) (12-22-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/121410/loc_756389469.shtml#mdw-comments">Angoon leader concludes Sealaska lecture series with historical bombardment account</a><br /></strong>By Jonathan Grass | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />As Native American Heritage Month has come to a close, Sealaska Heritage Institute concluded its lecture series Monday with a lecture on the importance of Tlingit communications and understanding. Cyril George Sr. spoke to a packed room on how failure to communicate led to problems between Angoon Natives and the federal government that last to this day. George is a clan leader of Deisheetaan of Angoon and Kaakâak’w Hât. He spoke on how proper communications and cultural understandings are integral to Tlingit relations, both in the past and today…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/121410/loc_756389469.shtml#mdw-comments">more</a>) (12-14-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/120810/loc_751695776.shtml">Some Native donations may not be so Native</a><br /></strong>By Jonathan Grass | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute received a collection of 18 Native cultural objects and tourist items from an anonymous donor last month. However, studies on these objects have led SHI researchers to believe three of them may not be Native made. SHI President Rosita Worl said a beaver crest clan hat and two rattles among the collection may have been made by a non-commissioned non-Native. Worl said the researchers came to this conclusion because, while the items look old, the wear and tear on them was not consistent with the apparent age…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/120810/loc_751695776.shtml">more</a>) (12-8-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/120710/loc_746903841.shtml">Native leader explains Tlingit education’s relevance for all societies</a><br /></strong>By Jonathan Grass | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Tlingit educational values have kept its clans alive since before European contact in Alaska, and Tlingit leaders recognize how the pillars of that education are important to Native and non-Native students alike, a speaker discussing Native education said Monday. David Katzeek, who goes by Kingeisti, is a leader of the Eagle Thun
2039derbird Clan of Klukwan. He’s spent years discussing education with students across Alaska for years, and shared the insights of that journey as part of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_nov_lecture_series_2010.htm">Sealaska Heritage Institute’s lecture series</a>…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/120710/loc_746903841.shtml">more</a>) (12-7-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.philly.com/inquirer/health_science/daily/20101206_Alaskan_clan_says_it_will_sue_University_of_Pennsylvania_to_get_items_back.html?viewAll=y">Alaskan clan says it may sue University of Pennsylvania to get items back</a><br /></strong>By Tom Avril | Inquirer Staff Writer<br />PHILADELPHIA – A federal advisory committee has recommended that the University of Pennsylvania return a trove of native artifacts it acquired nearly 90 years ago from a clan of Tlingit people in southeast Alaska. The recommendation last month regarding the collection of more than 40 items, among them headdresses, carved masks, and ceremonial horns, is not binding on Penn’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The museum has offered instead to turn over eight of the objects, allowing the clan to serve as cocurator of the rest…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.philly.com/inquirer/health_science/daily/20101206_Alaskan_clan_says_it_will_sue_University_of_Pennsylvania_to_get_items_back.html?viewAll=y">more</a>) (12-6-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/120110/loc_743989279.shtml">
2039Spokesman: ‘We proved … that we owned it’</a><br /></strong>By Jonathan Grass | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Years ago, two different Native clans made claims for the ownership of certain objects in museums in Alaska and Pennsylvania. Those claims are now one step closer to fulfillment, and the clans couldn’t be happier about it. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGRA, Review Committee in Washington, D.C. found a Native object in the Alaska State Museum and several in the University of Pennsylvania Museum are actually the property of the Teeyhâttaan Clan of Wrangell and T’akdeintaan Clan of Hoonah, respectively…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/120110/loc_743989279.shtml">more</a>) (12-1-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2010/11/28/1577430/museum-told-to-return-tlingit.html">Pennsylvania museum told to return Alaska Tlingit artifacts</a></strong><br />A shaman’s owl mask. A brass Loon Spirit hat. A faded hide robe that memorializes ancestors of the<br />Hoonah T’akdeintaan clan wiped out by a tidal wave in Lituya Bay. These items and dozens more belong to clan members, not the Pennsylvania museum where they’ve been stored for decades, a federal committee ruled recently. Marlene Johnson, a T’akdeintaan elder, has been trying to return the objects to Alaska ever since watching a slideshow of the collection in the mid-1990s. As long as there’s one of us around, it belongs to us,” she said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2010/11/28/1577430/museum-told-to-return-tlingit.html">more</a>) (11-29-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2010/11/27/1575552/native-medical-center-auxiliary.html">Anonymous donor returns Tlingit treasures to Heritage Institute</a><br /></strong>Speaking of museum quality art, the Sealaska Heritage Institute in Juneau is walking in the clouds over the recent gift of 18 Native cultural objects dating at least to the early 1900s. The unnamed donor, from Michigan, gave the collection to a Native woman in the Lower 48 with instructions to send it home — to the Native people of Southeast Alaska, according to a press release…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2010/11/27/1575552/native-medical-center-auxiliary.html">more</a>) (11-27-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/112410/new_741007235.shtml">An interview with Southeast writer Vivian Faith Prescott</a>*<br /></strong>By Katie Spielberger | Capital City Weekly<br />“I come from many generations of storytellers. Poetry is the medium I use to tell our stories.” So Vivian Faith Prescott introduces Slick, her collection of prose poetry recently published as a digital chapbook by White Knuckle Press…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/112410/new_741007235.shtml">more</a>) (11-24-10)<br />(*<em>This story touches on work by Vivian Mork, a Tlingit woman who had participated in SHI’s language program and is now teaching Tlingit in Wrangell</em>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/112410/loc_740984031.shtml">Mystery donor bestows new cultural objects to Sealaska</a><br /></strong>By Jonathan Grass | JUNEAU EMPIRE<strong><br /></strong>Folks at the Sealaska Heritage Institute may not know the person’s name, but are grateful for his or her philanthropic spirit. An anonymous donor has given the institute 18 Native cultural objects and tourist items. SHI President Rosita Worl said the collection contained sign<<Selection in Document>>ificant ceremonial pieces and would provide important research opportunities. Worl said such donations are unusual. Those who part with such collections most often do s
2039o for a price. “What I was most amazed about the donor is he wanted it to return home,” said Worl, noting she was only assuming the donor was a “he”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/112410/loc_740984031.shtml">more</a>) (11-24-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/111610/loc_736990493.shtml">A new look at an old battle</a><br /></strong>By Pat Forgey | JUNEAU EMPIRE<strong><br /></strong>“It was called the “Kake War” of 1869 but few people today know of it, said Zachary Jones, archivist with the Sealaska Heritage Institute. Among those who are aware of it are the Kâex’ Kwaan Tlingit of the Kake area, as well as other areas where related battles were fought, including Sitka, Wrangell and Cape Fox. Jones spoke of his research as part of a series of talks held at the Sealaska Building during Native American Heritage Month. He’s been using Tlingit oral histories to add to the official record of the clashes, and has been filling in a picture that’s been bases mostly on Caucasian written records…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/111610/loc_736990493.shtml">more</a>) (11-16-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/111410/nei_736112521.shtml">Thanks for making way for dancers</a><br /></strong>On Nov. 5, the Git-Hoan Dance Group traveled to Juneau for special performances to honor Native American Heritage Month. Auke Bay Elementary School is grateful and honored by the help and willingness of the Sealaska Heritage Institute and the Git-Hoan dancers to provide an opportunity for Auke Bay students to experience this extraordinary performance…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/111410/nei_736112521.shtml">more</a>) (11-14-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/111010/new_733946666.shtml">Archeologist discusses pre-contact Tlingit warfare as part of Native American Heritage Month lecture series</a><br /></strong>When Sealaska Heritage Institute invited anthropologist Madonna Moss to speak during the Native American Heritage Month lecture series, she didn’t want to talk about war. “I wanted to talk about herring and herring bones!” she told the several dozen people filling the Sealaska boardroom last Friday…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/111010/new_733946666.shtml">more</a>) (11-10-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/111010/new_733946706.shtml">Sealaska Heritage Institute among Alaskan recipients of Native Arts and Cultures Foundation grants</a><br /></strong>The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) recently awarded its first grants to 26 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian artists and organizations. This year’s recipients include three Alaska Native artists and three Alaska Native arts and cultural organizations…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/111010/new_733946706.shtml">more</a>) (11-10-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/110710/loc_732536278.shtml">National Heritage Month: Professor discusses warfare in ancient Tlingit times</a><br /></strong>By Jonathan Grass | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The Sealaska Heritage Institute’s second annual lecture series for Native American Heritage Month opened Friday with an in-depth look at what warfare meant to ancient Tlingit cultures. Madonna Moss, a professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon, brought her studies of Tlingit warfare to Juneau. She said her purpose was to expose locals to the differences between researched data and preconceived notions of Tlingit warfare, since it’s quite a sensitive topic…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/110710/loc_732536278.shtml">more</a>) (11-7-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/110410/art_730867960.shtml">Heritage Month gets off to a busy start</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<strong><br /></strong>November is Native American Heritage Month, and here in Juneau there’s plenty of opportunities to honor, celebrate, and learn more about the rich Native cultures of Southeast Alaska. The month gets off to a busy start Friday, with a full schedule of activities planned by Sealaska Heritage Institute, including a lunchtime lecture, dance performances and a Native artists market…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/110410/art_730867960.shtml">more</a>) (11-4-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/102110/art_723848839.shtml">Local lectures, dances, artist market scheduled for Native American Heritage Month</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor a noon lecture series, dance performances, and a Native art market to celebrate Native American Heritage Month in November. The brown-bag lunch series will focus on topics such as Tlingits and combat and Native history and language. The program this year will include dance performances at the Juneau-Douglas High School, plus a Native artist market, which will be set up in the commons of the school during the afternoon of the performances…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/102110/art_723848839.shtml">more</a>) (10-21-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/100710/loc_717052659.shtml">Sealaska Heritage Institute receives donation of recordings of Native elders</a></strong><br />Local radio host Cy Peck, Jr., has donated to Sealaska Heritage Institute a major collection of recordings capturing the words of Native Elders and leaders. The recordings, which have been digitized, include interviews with many Native Elders and leaders, including Cy Peck, Sr., Matthew Fred, Austin Hammond, Charlie Jimmie and Walter Williams to name a few. “I think it’s found a home here,” said Peck at a recent ceremony in Juneau where the collection was formally presented to the institute. “I want everyone to know where to come and hear the Elders speak in their original way they spoke at potlatches and ceremonies and honoring people”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/100710/loc_717052659.shtml">more</a>) (10-07-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/083110/loc_702538786.shtml">Photo: Native ‘Jam Session’ </a></strong>(08-31-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150119043722/http://www.adn.com/article/20100609/shocking-story-behind-sealaska-art-show-winner">Shocking story behind Sealaska art show winner</a></strong><br /><em>Powerful start: Alder left Juneau in dark; war helmet proved its mettle<br /></em>By Mike Dunham<br />The “Best of Show” piece in the traditional category at the fifth Sealaska Juried Art Competition, a Tlingit war helmet by carver Wayne Price, came with an electrifying back story. The wood came from an alder tree that knocked out the power in Juneau for half a day when it came down, the artist said. “That wood has had twenty-five thousand volts go through it,” Price said, “and it didn’t crack when I carved it. So it really had a really good startâ…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2010/06/09/1316009/shocking-story-behind-sealaska.html">more</a>) (06-09-10)</p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/060410/loc_648857412.shtml">Grand Entrance</a> </strong>(06-04-10)<br />JUNEAU EMPIRE</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/060310/loc_648334008.shtml">Finding Long Lost Relatives</a><br /></strong>By Kim Marquis | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Many people have some idea where they come from, but Brian Kemp’s research branches out much further than any family tree. The anthropologist used DNA samples he collected in Juneau two years ago to draw genetic connections not only among Native Southeast Alaskans but also to regions in other parts of the Americas. Kemp foun
2039d maternal lineages to Southern California and, surprisingly to him, a high frequency of genetic connections to the American Southwest…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/060310/loc_648334008.shtml">more</a>) (06-03-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/053110/loc_647098288.shtml">Celebration 2010 begins Wednesday</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />It’s time to Celebrate. Celebration, Southeast Alaska’s largest cultural event, is expected to draw 5,000 people when registration starts here Wednesday. The biennial gathering, held June 2-5, will include 51 dance groups and more than 2,000 dancers from Alaska, Canada and the Lower 48 states, according to Sealaska. The Sealaska Heritage Institute started the popular dance-and-culture festival in 1982 to celebrate Tlinit, Haida and Tsimshian cultures…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/053110/loc_647098288.shtml">more</a>) (05-31-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Southeast languages focus of books</strong><br /><em>NATIVE: Haida, Tlingit and Tsimshian words, phrases are included<br /></em>BY MIKE DUNHAM<br /><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has published a new series of learners’ dictionaries for the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian languages and the first-ever Alaska Haida phrasebook. “We’ve been working on language restoration for nearly 10 to 12 years, and I would say for a greater part of this we’ve been working on these dictionaries,” institute president Rosita Worl said in a press release. The new books incorporate some important innovations…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.thenewstribune.com/2010/05/29/1206065/southeast-languages-focus-of-books.html">more</a>) (05-29-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Sealaska Heritage Institute releases dictionaries for Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian </strong><br />for the juneau empire<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has published a new series of learners’ dictionaries for the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian languages and the first-ever Alaskan Haida phrasebook. The dictionaries are the product of years of documentation with assistance from Elders fluent in Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian. The phrasebook was written by Dr. Erma Lawrence, one of the few remaining fluent speakers of Alaskan Haida. “We’ve been working on language restoration for nearly 10 to 12 years, and I would say for a greater part of this we’ve been working on these dictionaries. So, they’re pretty broad in scope, and to have three of them released all at the same time I think is fairly significant,” said SHI President Rosita Worl…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/052710/art_645327139.shtml">more</a>) (05-27-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>“All Things Eagle and Raven” exhibit opens<br /></strong>CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY<br />The Juneau-Douglas City Museum will open its summer exhibit, “All Things Eagle & Raven,” on Juneau Museum Day, May 15 with a free public reception from noon to 5 p.m. This exhibit is a celebration of these two birds and their connection to our lives…A life-size replica of an eagle and raven’s nest will be on exhibit with information about mating, nesting and parenting habits. Eagle and Raven Tlingit phrases supplied by Sealaska Heritage Institute will also be displayed…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/051210/ae_637840104.shtml">more</a>) (05-12-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center restores pieces of the Alaska Native story<br /></strong>By Fran Golden<br />Special to The Washington Post<br />A $40 million Alaska Native collection is debuting in Anchorage this month, representing a homecoming for 600 rare objects, most of which have never before been seen in public, much less touched. Paul Ongtooguk, an Iâupiag from the north of Alaska, said in an interview at the Anchorage Museum that he is looking forward to the “family reunion…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/06/AR2010050605690.html">more</a>) (05-09-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Sealaska institute awards scholarships<br /></strong>The Associated Press<br />JUNEAU, Alaska – The Sealaska Heritage Institute has awarded about $356,000 in scholarships to Sealaska shareholders and desce
2039ndants. Institute President Rosita Worl says scholarships for university and vocational studies went to 386 Alaska Native students. The scholarships will aid students for the 2010-2011 school year…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/2010/04/27/1251734/sealaska-institute-awards-scholarships.html">more</a>) (04-27-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/042510/loc_622621975.shtml">Eagle totem brings ‘balance’ to UAS campus</a></strong><br />By Klas Stolpe | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Native legends say that forever ago, long before their ancestors walked, the Raven and the Eagle shared the skies, forests and streams of Alaska, bringing a balance to the world as they would jest, joust and shout above the winds and sun. That balance was brought to the University of Alaska Southeast campus Saturday with an Eagle pole-raising ceremony. It came 18 years after a Raven pole was erected there. The Eagle totem symbolizes a school united with the community, Native peoples and their ancestors. “We have been looking forward to this for a while,” Hydaburg’s TJ Young said. “We hope everybody is proud of it”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/042510/loc_622621975.shtml">more</a>) (04-25-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="http://\https://web.archive.org/web/20131018123723/http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/national/89788202.html" data-wplink-url-error="true">33 cultural objects repatriated</a></strong><br />INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY<br />Sealaska Corporation has repatriated 33 cultural objects from a Massachusetts museum on behalf of Tlingit clans in southeast Alaska. Most of the objects were repatriated on behalf of the Yakutat Tlingit Tribe and title will be officially transferred to them at a future ceremony, said Sealaska Heritage Institute President Rosita Worl, an anthropologist who assisted in the repatriation. The collection underscores the creativity and talent of our ancestors, Worl said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/89788202.html">more</a>) (04-06-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/040110/art_599096066.shtml">33 Native cultural objects repatriated through Sealaska</a></strong><br /><em>For the Juneau Empire</em><br />Sealaska Corp. has repatriated 33 cultural objects from a Massachusetts museum on behalf of Tlingit clans in Southeast Alaska. Most of the objects were repatriated on behalf of the Yakutat Tlingit and title will be officially transferred to them at a future ceremony, said SHI President Rosita Worl, an anthropologist who assisted in the repatriation. The collection underscores the creativity and talent of Tlingit ancestors, Worl said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/040110/art_599096066.shtml">more</a>) (04-01-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/011410/art_549048410.shtml">Preserving cultural knowledge</a></strong><br /><em>Tlingit carver Rick Beasley releases step-by-step guides to a traditional art form</em><br />By Amy Fletcher | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />A new series of books on traditional Tlingit carving offers an innovative approach to learning the art, by providing a detailed description of the techniques in printed form. Traditionally, the cultural knowledge inherent in the creation of the artwork has been passed down through master-apprentice relationships and workshops, and the books’ introduction makes clear this is still the best way to learn. But for those without access to a teacher or a class, and for those who live outside Southeast Alaska, the series offers a way in…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/011410/art_549048410.shtml">more</a>) (01-14-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>(Listen to a radio story about SHI’s books on the Developmental Language Process)<br /></strong>A Southeast Alaska cultural organization is releasing a series of books it hopes will increase students’ success rates. Sealaska Heritage Institute is presenting the books on what’s called the Developmental Language Process to educators in four of the region’s communities. CoastAlaska’s Ed Schoenfeld reports from Juneau…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/media.aprn.org/2010/ann-20100105-07.MP3">more</a>) (01-05-09)</p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/010310/nei_542281201.shtml">Sealaska Heritage Institute implements book series on language development</a><br /></strong><em>Staff holds training sessions across Southeast, works on new middle school set</em><strong><br /></strong>By Kim Andree | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />“A child who is language-delayed is going to fail. He or she does not have a chance to succeed in academics. They can succeed elsewhere, but not in academics. … My heart goes out to anyone who is in high school and who is language delayed, because they face failure everyday. And we wonder why they drop out of school. … This sense of failure due to language delay is incredibly powerful”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/010310/nei_542281201.shtml">more</a>) (01-03-10)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a id="2009" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/121609/new_536268293.shtml"><strong>SHI releases book series on language development</strong></a><br />Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has released a series of books to help students overcome a common problem in schools today: a delay in academic language development. The series was funded through a grant from the Alaska Native Education Program and includes books on science, math and literature for high school students, plus books on Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian for all grades. The books outline a method called the Developmental Language Process, which was pioneered by SHI Curriculum Director Jim MacDiarmid, a longtime educator in Canada and Alaska and author of “Replacing Thinga-ma-jig: the Developmental Language Process.”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/121609/new_536268293.shtml">more</a>) (12-16-09)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/111309/loc_516060703.shtml">Celebrating 101 Years</a><br /></strong><em>Tlingit elder’s wishlist includes world peace and the wild game stews of his youth<br /></em>By Klas Stolpe | JUNEAU EMPIRE<strong><br /></strong>Walter Soboleff has done a lot in his 100-plus years on Earth, but his family’s gift of a cruise through the Panama Canal is something new. “I’ve never been on a vacation cruise,” Soboleff said last week before leaving town for the trip. “Never out on the ocean in warm weather. I think I will just be taking a rest, seeing the canal and the gates open and the ships passing through. I know I will be leaving my wool shirt at home.”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/111309/loc_516060703.shtml">more</a>) (11-13-09)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/110509/loc_512948627.shtml">Professor says most Natives supported statehood in 50s</a></strong><br /><em>History lecture highlights contrast in state vs. federal subsistence debate</em><br />By Klas Stolpe | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />From the days before statehood, Native elders passed down stories of “being able to walk across rivers on the backs of salmon,” which seafood suppliers for large out-of-state companies devastated by using fish traps. At the time, most Natives believed that statehood would protect their fishing rights and their way of life from outsiders who they watched discard less desirable species and overharvest top dollar species, University of Alaska Anchorage associate professor Jeane Breinig said Wednesday…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/110509/loc_512948627.shtml">more</a>) (11-4-09)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/080609/loc_478368007.shtml">A potato revival</a></strong><br /><em>Tuber cropping up in community gardens probably several hundred years old<br /></em>A potato that Native Alaskan communities grew hundreds of years ago is making a reappearance in Juneau. The heirloom Tlingit potato takes almost too well to Southeast Alaska’s moist climate, said Merrill Jensen, manager of the Jensen-Olson Arboretum. He expects as many as 1,500 pounds of the vegetable to be harvested next month from four rows of plants sprouting in the city-owned garden…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/080609/loc_478368007.shtml">more</a>) (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/flash/my_house.swf">Click here</a> to hear the Tlingit word for potato and other items) (08-06-09)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/071909/nei_465731089.shtml">Sealaska announces first youth board advisor position</a><br /></strong><em>Juneau’s Megan Gregory, originally from Kake, to serve for a year in inaugural position<br /></em>By Kim Andree  <em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Sealaska’s Board of Directors recently elected 22-year-old Megan Gregory, originally from Kake, to serve in its inaugural youth board advisory position. The new year-long position was announced during Sealaska’s 2009 Annual Meeting on June 27 in Sitka. As youth advisor, Gregory will provide input on youth perspectives and gain board membership training…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/071909/nei_465731089.shtml">more</a>) (07-19-09)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/071509/new_463969199.shtml">Sealaska Heritage Institute acquires photo collections</a></strong><br />
2039CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has acquired two photograph collections documenting Southeast Alaska Native cultures from circa 1883 to the 1990s…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/071509/new_463969199.shtml">more</a>) (07-15-09)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/071309/loc_462725863.shtml">Sealaska institute acquires photography collections</a></strong><br /><em>Empire photographer donates hundreds of ANB/ANS images</em><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has acquired two photographs documenting Southeast Alaska Native cultures from circa 1883 to the 1990s. Longtime photojournalist Brian Wallace donated several hundred images, including photos of the founding fathers of the Alaska Native Brotherhood (circa 1912) and past Alaska Native Sisterhood presidents…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/071309/loc_462725863.shtml">more</a>) (07-13-09)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/070809/new_461132038.shtml">Inland Tlingit Celebration to be held July 22-28</a></strong><br />By Katie Spielberger | CCW Editor<br />TESLIN, Yukon – Just because there’s no Celebration in Juneau this year doesn’t mean there’s no Celebration this year. The Teslin Tlingit Council is planning the first ever Ha Kus Teyea Celebration in the small community of Teslin, Yukon Territory, for July 22-28. “Has Kus Teyea” means “our culture” or “the Tlingit way.” The event will be the largest Inland Tlingit gathering ever held in Canada…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/070809/new_461132038.shtml">more</a>) (07-08-09)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/070209/ent_458203977.shtml">Summer Theater: Where STARs are Born</a><br /></strong>By Amy Fletcher | Juneau Empire<br />The only prerequisite for participating in Perseverance Theatre’s Summer Theatre Arts Rendezvous (STAR) program is a willingness to put your heart into the experience, says Director of Education Shona Strauser. Shy kids, gregarious kids, inexperienced and experienced, all can – and do – find their place and flourish…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/070209/ent_458203977.shtml">more</a>) (<strong>Sponsored by SHI</strong>) (07-02-09)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/070109/new_457427176.shtml">Unique Haida curriculum series distributed</a></strong><br /><em>Sealaska Heritage Institute hopes curriculum will help weave more Native lessons into schools<br /></em>By Sealaska Heritage Institute | For the CCW<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has produced a unique collection of Haida curriculum for distribution to schools with Haida language programs, in hopes of weaving more Native lessons into the public school system…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/070109/new_457427176.shtml">more</a>) (07-01-09)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/062809/nei_455546205.shtml">Unique Haida Curriculum Series Distributed</a></strong><br />JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has produced a unique collection of Haida curriculum with audio CDs for distribution to schools with Haida language programs in hopes of weaving more Native lessons into the public school system…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/062809/nei_455546205.shtml">more</a>) (06-28-09)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/061609/loc_451477160.shtml">Photo: Uncovering an eagle</a><br /></strong>See a photo in the Juneau Empire of Joe Young and his brother TJ working on an Eagle totem pole at the University of Alaska Southeast. (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/061609/loc_451477160.shtml">News Photo</a>) (06-16-09)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/051009/nei_438341513.shtml">Artists chosen to carve Sealaska Heritage Institute, university</a></strong><em><br />Traditional welcoming ceremony to be held Thursday at UAS<br /></em>For the Juneau Empire<br />Artists Joe and TJ Young, residents of Hydaburg on Prince of Wales Island, recently won a contract to carve a totem pole for Sealaska Heritage Institute on behalf of the University of Alaska Southeast. A selection committee comprised of SHI and UAS representatives chose the brothers from a pool of applicants last week…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/051009/nei_438341513.shtml">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sitnews.us/0409news/042909/042909_language.html">Ketchikan Indian Community Partners with Sealaska Heritage Institute to Provide Language Workshop</a><br /></strong>SitNews<strong><br /></strong>Ketchikan Indian Community (KIC) has partnered with Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) to present a Heritage Language Development Workshop for language teachers and curriculum developers on April 30 and May 1, 2009. The language workshop is one example of the kinds of efforts the Tribe is making to ensure the survival of the Haida, Tlingit, and Tsimshian languages…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sitnews.us/0409news/042909/042909_language.html">more</a>) (04-29-09)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/042409/nei_432476333.shtml">Sealaska Heritage awards $446,000 in scholarships</a><br /></strong>JUNEAU EMPIRE<strong><br /></strong>JUNEAU – Sealaska Heritage Institute has awarded approximately $446,000 in scholarships to Sealaska shareholders and desce
2039ndants. The awards, funded by Sealaska Corporation, will help students pursuing graduate and undergraduate degrees and voc-tech training for the 2009-2010 school year. A portion also will fund heritage studies, language studies and culture camps…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/042409/nei_432476333.shtml">more</a>) (04-24-09)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.newsminer.com/news/2009/apr/22/sealaska-seeks-proposals-totem-pole/">Sealaska seeks proposals for totem pole</a><br />T</strong>he Associated Press<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute is seeking proposals for the creation of a traditional-style totem pole. Sealaska has extended the deadline to Friday for proposals for the 36-foot pole. Officials say the pole is to include the Eagle crests of Eagle, Shark, Wolf and thunderbird…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.newsminer.com/news/2009/apr/22/sealaska-seeks-proposals-totem-pole/">more</a>) (04-22-09)</p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/020509/loc_385027774.shtml">Workshop aims to boost Native languages</a><br /></strong><em>Education director says new process will provide framework for teachers<br /></em>By Eric Morrison | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute is looking to reinvent the wheel of how the indigenous languages of Southeast Alaska are taught. New education director Jim MacDiarmid is hosting a two-day workshop Wednesday and today on a developmental language process he has created to help educators instill the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian languages into the long-term memories of their students. The nonprofit educational and cultural arm of Sealaska Corp. has been at the forefront of Alaska Native language curriculum development in recent years, but MacDiarmid said incorporating this new process will help provide a better framework for teachers to present the languages to the students…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/020509/loc_385027774.shtml">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/011409/loc_377249463.shtml">Sealaska posts collections database online</a></strong><em><br />Holdings include about 25,000 photos, 1,000 cultural objects</em><br />By Eric Morrison | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute is hoping a newly posted searchable catalog on its Web site will help spur more research on the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian cultures. SHI, a Native nonprofit that administers educational and cultural programs for Sealaska Corp., says it is a “major breakthrough” that will give researchers a better understanding of the many thousands of objects the institute houses…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/011409/loc_377249463.shtml">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>DNA tracks ancient Alaskan’s descendants</strong><em><br />10,300 YEARS OLD: Tests of Southeast Natives challenge prior anthropological results<br /></em>By GEORGE BRYSON<br />An ancient mariner who lived and died 10,000 years ago on an island west of Ketchikan probably doesn’t have any close relatives left in Alaska. But some of them migrated south and their descendents can be found today in coastal Native American populations in California, Mexico, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.adn.com/news/alaska/rural/southeast/story/636254.html">more</a>)</p><p><strong><a id="2008" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/122508/loc_371061037.shtml">Book on Tlingit battle wins national award</a></strong><br />By Kim Andree | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Among the 14 winners of the Before Columbus Foundation’s 28th annual American Book Awards was “Anâoshi Lingât Aanâ Kâ: Russians in Tlingit America, The Battles of Sitka 1802 and 1804” – a book by Juneau residents Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer and the late Lydia Black, of Fairbanks. The fourth volume in the award-winning series “Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature,” jointly published by Sealaska Heritage Institute and the University of Washington Press, this book describes the historic battles between the Russians and Tlingits in the early 19th century…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/122508/loc_371061037.shtml">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/120308/ae_363164556.shtml">Annual Native Arts and Crafts Fair</a></strong><br />Capital City Weekly<br />JUNEAU – The annual Native Arts & Crafts Fair will be held at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum on Dec. 5 from 4:30-8 p.m. and Dec. 6 from 12-4 p.m. . Meet local Alaska Native artists and learn as they demonstrate techniques and sell their wares…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/120308/ae_363164556.shtml">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/111408/loc_355997761.shtml">Celebrating An Alaska original</a><br /></strong><em>Native leader Walter Soboleff marks 100th birthday today<br /></em>By Jeremy Hsieh | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />One day when Bill Martin was 14 and working at a grocery store in Juneau, a man he knew for his Tlingit radio broadcasts spotted him and said, “Tell your father I said, ‘Hi.'” Martin had never met the man and wondered how he’d made the connection. “All he had to do was see you, and he knew,” Martin recalled his father telling him. Martin, now 65, is president of the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/111408/loc_355997761.shtml">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/100208/spo_339470157.shtml">Historic perspective: ‘Russians in Tlingit America’
2039 book sheds new light on Sitka battles of 1802 and 1804</a></strong><br />By Eric Morrison | JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />The historical battles between Tlingits and Russians near present day Sitka at the dawn of the 19th century were more significant than most people likely acknowledge, linguist and author Richard Dauenhauer said. “I think the battles of 1802 and 1804 are part of that history that ultimately shaped the entire American map of the United States in later years,” he said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.juneauempire.com/stories/100208/spo_339470157.shtml">more</a>)</p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/hawaiialaska/27130254.html">Juneau home to southeast Alaska Native research center</a></strong><br />INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY<br />The Sealaska Heritage Institute in Juneau recently opened its doors to the redesigned and expanded Special Collections Research Center. The center holds extensive archival recordings of traditional Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian ceremonies as well as historical documents, photographs and cultural objects. Renewed interest in the facility has brought with it an increase in donations. ”We have a small but growing ethnographic and archaeological collection. Now that we have the facility to care for these objects, we have noticed that more people are starting to come to us with donations,” said Rosita Worl, SHI president…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/hawaiialaska/27130254.html">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.indiancountrytoday.com/content.cfm?id=1096417647">Tlingit canoe makes maiden voyage … to the Smithsonian</a><br /></strong>
2039by: Rob Capriccioso<br />WASHINGTON – A traditional Tlingit dugout canoe made by contemporary Indians sailed grandly through gleaming Potomac waters in a ceremony celebrating its forthcoming inclusion in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. The June 19 event was attended by a group of Tlingit tribal members young and old who were overjoyed to explain the significance of their contribution…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.indiancountrytoday.com/content.cfm?id=1096417647">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/062708/nei_296263914.shtml">Sealaska looks to educate future leaders</a></strong><br /><em>Twelve days of classes include physical fitness training, Tlingit, Haida language instruction, etc.</em><br />By Erik Stimpfle | For the Juneau Empire<br />High school students from communities throughout Alaska have converged in Juneau to participate in the Lasteen Leadership Training Program, which blends the study of western subjects such as math and science with the study of traditional Native ways…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/062708/nei_296263914.shtml">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Whipping up soapberries</strong><br />John Ryan, KTOO-FM<br />The translucent red berries known as soapberries… are tiny, bitter, and soapy to the touch. But in the right hands, soapberries can be whipped into a frothy treat. At Southeast Alaska’s largest Native gathering, women from Alaska and northern Canada competed to make the tastiest version of the rare delicacy. John Ryan reports from the first-ever soapberry contest at Celebration…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.ktoo.org/audiofile.cfm?clip=3164">Listen</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>News Articles and photos of Celebration 2008<br /></strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/060808/loc_288002266.shtml">Native women whip up soapberries, fond memories</a><strong><br /></strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/060808/loc_288002195.shtml">Youth light up cultural festival</a><strong><br /></strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/060608/loc_287117061.shtml">Photos: Celebration 2008</a><strong><br /></strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/060608/loc_287112768.shtml">Natives give DNA samples to see if they match ancient remains</a><strong><br /></strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/060608/loc_287112704.shtml">Photo: Grand entrance</a><strong><br /></strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/060608/loc_287112641.shtml">Lead group unveils new dance today</a><strong><br /></strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/060608/loc_287112331.shtml">Photo: Carving culture</a><strong><br /></strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/060508/loc_286670587.shtml">Artist weaves Native values into baskets</a><strong><br /></strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/060508/loc_286670373.shtml">Photo: Traditional display</a><strong><br /></strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/060508/art_286683569.shtml">Celebrate award-winning Native artists on First Friday</a><strong><br /></strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/juneauempire.com/stories/060408/loc_286196833.shtml">Juneau’s Natives Welcome Guests</a></p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_dna_testing_adn_2008.htm">Saliva samples could reveal ancient Alaskan’s descendants</a><br /></strong><em>Natives’ DNA may match cave man’s<br /></em>By GEORGE BRYSON<br />[email protected]<br />Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian Indians gathering in Juneau today will get a chance to prove they’re directly related to one of the very first Alaskans — a 10,300-year-old mariner whose bear-chewed bones were discovered a decade ago in a cave on Prince of Wales Island. In return, molecular anthropologists collecting the participants’ DNA hope to add to their knowledge about how the earliest Americans spread across the western hemisphere — possibly along a coastal sea route — in spite of the ice-choked plains…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_dna_testing_adn_2008.htm">more</a>) (06-06-08)</p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_Tlingit_warrior_helmet_auctioned_2008.htm">Rare Tlingit warrior’
2039s helmet captures $2 million at auction</a></strong><br />By Eric Morrison l JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />A Tlingit warrior’s helmet previously unknown to exist was recently sold to a private collector for what is believed to be a record amount for a Native American artifact at an auction. On May 18, Fairfield Auction of Newton, Conn., hosted an auction that fetched $2,185,000 for the helmet that experts believe originated in the late 18th or early 19th century. An anonymous woman brought the piece to the company during an appraisal clinic several months ago, not realizing the value of the artifact, auction house owner Jack DeStories said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_Tlingit_warrior_helmet_auctioned_2008.htm">more</a>) (06-02-08)</p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/AUDIO/story_coastalaska_dna_study_oykc_2008.mp3">Sealaska searches for descendants of 10,000 year old man</a><br /></strong>Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska – Juneau<br />A Southeast cultural organization is looking for relatives of a 10,300-year-old man whose remains were found in a remote cave. The Sealaska Heritage Institute plans to collect DNA samples from Southeast Natives. They will be compared to DNA from the ancient manâs bones, found in Prince of Wales Islandâs On Your Knees Cave in 1996.  (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/AUDIO/story_coastalaska_dna_study_oykc_2008.mp3">Listen</a>) (05-23-08 )</p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_DNA_LADailyNews_2008.htm">Canyon Country family linked to iceman</a><br /></strong>By Jerry Berrios, Staff Writer<br />LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS<br />CANYON COUNTRY_Dorothy Rosenberg’s sister called her recently to give her some news about a long-lost relative – a really, really long-ago-lost relative. Rosenberg, 80, who belongs to the Alaskan Tlingit tribe, learned through DNA testing that an iceman who died 200 to 300 years ago in the wilds of British Columbia is one of her ancestors…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_DNA_LADailyNews_2008.htm">more</a>) (05-06-08)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_DNA_LongAPF_2008_empire.htm">DNA link answers life’s big question for Juneau man</a></strong><br />By Kim Marquis l JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Fernando Rado’s family got a whole lot bigger Thursday, when he found out through the results of DNA testing that he is a descendant of an ancient man whose remains were found in a glacier nearly 10 years ago. The news also answered a question many people ponder throughout their lives: Where am I from? “There’s a globe of the Earth and there’s a point right there where you come from … it’s a lock in the picture for me,” Rado said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_DNA_LongAPF_2008_empire.htm">more</a>) (05-4-08)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/AUDIO/story_coastalaska_0508_eschoenfeld.mp3">DNA tests support Alaska-Yukon tribal connections</a></strong><br />Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska – Juneau<br />JUNEAU, ALASKA Remains of a centuries-old man found in a receding Canadian icefield have been linked to Southeast Alaska Natives. Organizations based in the Yukon and Juneau say DNA testing demonstrates the close historic connections between tribal groups on both sides of the border…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/AUDIO/story_coastalaska_0508_eschoenfeld.mp3">Listen</a>) (04-30-08)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_first_canoe_practice_2008_empire.htm">Smithsonian Bound</a></strong><br />By Eric Morrison<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />The copper sun embedded in the mouth of the raven carved into the canoe’s prow glistened Wednesday as the paddles from nine men rhythmically sliced through the water of Twin Lakes. Observing from the dock on the lake’s edge, lead artist Doug Chilton noted that many of the men testing the unnamed 26-foot canoe bound for the Smithsonian Museum had never paddled before…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_first_canoe_practice_2008_empire.htm">more</a>) (05-01-08)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_worl_talk_2008.htm">Acknowledging differences creates accepting society</a></strong><br /><em>Speaker explains misconceptions about Alaska Natives</em><br />Mary Lochner<br />THE NORTHERN LIGHT (University of Alaska Anchorage)<br />Issue date: 2/19/08 Section: Features<br />Sealaska Heritage Institute president Rosita Worl gave a talk about the history and reconstruction of Alaska Native identity Feb. 13 in the Student Union. She spoke of the need for Natives and non-Natives to understand cultural differences in order to promote understanding and harmony, rather than
2039ignoring differences and allowing misunderstandings to fester.</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_soboleff_donation_2008_empire.htm">Institute posts Soboleff documents online</a></strong><br />By Eric Morrison | <em>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br /></em>More than 1,000 papers documenting Alaska Native history by Tlingit elder Walter Soboleff have been posted on the Internet by Sealaska Heritage Institute in what officials are calling a unique and priceless collection. Running from 1929 to 1995, the documents provide insight into the Native land claims struggle and the Alaska Native Brotherhood, institute President Rosita Worl said. The ANB was a key player in the land claims fight…(more) (02-07-08)</p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_archives_donations_2008_empire.htm">Sealaska’s historical photo collection grows </a><br /></strong><em>Newest donation from Juneau architectural firm includes 150 pictures from the 1930s<br /></em>KIM MARQUIS<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />While Southeast Alaska Natives traditionally passed history down by sharing elaborate stories, the Sealaska Heritage Institute is finding out that handing on the culture these days requires more than just a good ear. Artifacts are being donated with increasing frequency to the Juneau-based institute, and floor plans are under review for a new storage space, reading room and office that will be dedicated to making historical items and information available to the public…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_archives_donations_2008_empire.htm">more</a>) (01-16-08)</p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_haida_web_instruction_2008_empire.htm">Web-based class to offer Haida instruction</a></strong><br /><em>Course aims to help resurrect language </em><strong><br /></strong>ALAN SUDERMAN<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br /></em>The area’s first Web-based Native language course is scheduled to start later this month. The Sealaska Heritage Institute will offer an elementary Haida class to interested participants solely on the Internet. The idea, said Dr. Rosita Worl, president of SHI, is to use the Internet’s ease and availability to help resurrect a dying language. She said previous attempts using a traveling teacher or video conferencing had been too cumbersome…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_haida_web_instruction_2008_empire.htm">more</a>) (01-14-08)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/AUDIO/southeast_natives_vie_for_scholarships_aprn_2008.mp3">Southeast Native students vie for Sealaska scholarships</a></strong><br />Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska – Juneau<br />January 7, 2008<br />Alaska Native students with roots in Southeast have another chance to get financial assistance for their studies. The Sealaska Heritage Institute is taking applications for its annual scholarship program…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/AUDIO/southeast_natives_vie_for_scholarships_aprn_2008.mp3">Listen</a>) (01-07-08)</p><p><strong><a id="2007" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_haffner_donation_2007_sitnews.htm">Ancient stone objects donated by Juneau man</a></strong><br /><em>SitNews</em><br />A Juneau man has donated four ancient stone objects to Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI), marking one of the most significant donations of cultural items received by the nonprofit in recent years…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_haffner_donation_2007_sitnews.htm">more</a>) (12-26-07)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/AUDIO/story_ktoo_language_tools_2007.mp3">New online venture strives to preserve Tlingit language</a></strong><br />JOHN RYAN<br /><em>KTOO-FM<br /></em>Everybody talks about the weather, but not many people do it in Tlingit. That could change a bit with some new online learning tools produced in Juneau…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/AUDIO/story_ktoo_language_tools_2007.mp3">Listen</a>) (11-26-07)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_new_language_tools_2007_empire.htm"><strong>Sealaska releases new language tools</strong></a><br /><em>Interactive Web program helps teach Tlingit skills </em><br />ERIC MORRISON<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Seventy-year-old Tlingit teacher Ruth Demmert has seen firsthand how the Internet and computer technology can inspire the younger generation of Alaska Natives to embrace its culture. “I believe it sparks the interest of the younger people, and I know there’s a lot more younger people out there showing pride in the language,” she said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_new_language_tools_2007_empire.htm">more</a>) (11-22-07)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_ancient_remains_returned_2007_empire.htm">Forest Service returns ancient human remains to Tlingit tribes</a></strong><br />RACHEL D’ORO<br /><em>The Associated Press</em><br />ANCHORAGE – Human remains estimated to be more than 10,000 years old that were found in a cave in the Tongass National Forest rightfully belong to the southeast Alaska Tlingit tribes, the federal government said. Now, 11 years after they were found during a U.S. Forest Service archaeological survey, the remains will be returned to the tribe, agency officials announced Frid
2039ay. It will be the first time a federal agency has handed custody of such ancient finds over to an indigenous group under the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, they said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_ancient_remains_returned_2007_empire.htm">more</a>) (10-21-07)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/AUDIO/Story%20by%20Ed%20Schoenfeld%20on%202007%20Latseen%20Basketball%20Camps/01_TlingitBB.mp3">SHI Sponsors Latseen Basketball Camps</a></strong><br />Some Southeast students are learning to play basketball in Tlingit. Sport camps sponsored this summer by the Sealaska Heritage Institute are mixing language skills and court time. More camps may be offered next year. CoastAlaskaâs Ed Schoenfeld reports…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/AUDIO/Story%20by%20Ed%20Schoenfeld%20on%202007%20Latseen%20Basketball%20Camps/01_TlingitBB.mp3">Listen</a>) (08-02-07)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_nagpra_museum_2007_empire.htm">Office closure could halt return of artifacts</a></strong><br /><em>Southeast Native groups join protest against university’s decision </em><br />KORRY KEEKER<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Groups around the country, including some in Southeast Alaska, are protesting the University of California-Berkeley’s decision to eliminate the unit that restores Native artifacts to their original owners…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_nagpra_museum_2007_empire.htm">more</a>) (07-27-07)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_canoe_smithsonian_2007_empire.htm">Sealaska begins national canoe project for Smithsonian Institute</a></strong><br />By Abby LaForce<br />For CCW<br />Juneau’s own Sealaska Heritage Institute will be providing a special addition to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. In renovating a hall at the National Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian is creating a new permanent exhibition on the ocean. Featured in the exhibit will be a 26-feet long traditional wood canoe, commissioned by Sealaska. “It’s going to be called Oceans Hall. I just visited it last week (and) it’s going to be phenomenal,” said Rosita Worl, president of Sealaska Heritage Institute…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_canoe_smithsonian_2007_empire.htm">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_tlingit_curriculum_2007_empire.htm">District sets Tlingit curriculum</a></strong><br /><em>Plan provides resources to teach Native language, culture to Southeast students </em><br />ERIC MORRISON<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Sealaska Heritage Institute and the Juneau School District have co-produced what they say is the first broad-scale Tlingit language and culture curriculum that meets state academic and cultural standards. The curriculum, composed of 18 units, has been distributed to every public school district in Southeast Alaska with the intent of providing more tools to teach the Native language at a time when the number of fluent speakers is dwindling, said Yarrow Vaara, Tlingit language specialist for the institute…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_tlingit_curriculum_2007_empire.htm">more</a>) (07-16-07)</p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_tlingit_macbeth_washington_post.htm">‘Macbeth,’ North by Northwest</a></strong><em><br />By Nelson Pressley</em><br />Special To The Washington Post<br />Monday, March 12, 2007; Page C01<br />The Southeastern Alaskan language Tlingit — pronounced “klinkit” — isn’t especially full of sound and fury in the “Macbeth” of Juneau’s Perseverance Theatre. But that’s because in this production, which has been carefully imbued with Tlingit symmetry and ceremony by director Anita Maynard-Losh, the most bloody-minded speeches are rendered in English…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_tlingit_macbeth_washington_post.htm">more</a>) <strong>(Sponsored by SHI)</strong></p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/radio_story_tlingit_macbeth.mp3">Tlingit Macbeth in Washington, D.C.</a></strong><br />By WAMU-FM (public radio in Washington D.C.) <strong>(Sponsored by SHI)</strong><br />(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/radio_story_tlingit_macbeth.mp3">Listen</a>) (03-16-07)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_tlingit_macbeth_2_2007.htm">Perseverance to Do ‘Macbeth’ in Tlingit</a></strong><br />By STEVE QUINN<br />Associated Press Writer<br />JUNEAU, Alaska â Jake Waid rubbed his bloodshot eyes, blankly stared at a script for Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” then resumed an unfamiliar struggle with a set of lines. “Tleil tsu tlax yei l kusheek’eiyi ye yageeyi kwasatinch, ch’a aan yak’ei,” he read slowly of what would normally be, “So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_tlingit_macbeth_2_2007.htm">more</a>) <strong>(Sponsored by SHI)</strong></p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_tlingit_macbeth_1.htm">Exploring Cultural Ties </a></strong><br /><em>Perseverance Theatre’s Tlingit version of ‘Macbeth’ to open in Washington, D.C.<br /></em>By ANNE SUTTON<br /><em>The Associated Press</em><br />Battles are waged to the beat of drums, witches slink across the stage as land otters, and Banquo’s ghost dons a raven mask in a Tlingit language adaptation of Shakespeare’s brutal and bloody tale of a murderous Scottish lord. Sprung from the rain forests of Southeast Alaska, this Was
2039hington, D.C., bound production of “Macbeth” marries the Elizabethan tragedy with an ancient indigenous culture – an elaborate conceit that its players say brings new life to both worlds…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_tlingit_macbeth_1.htm">more</a>) <strong>(Sponsored by SHI)</strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_hoonah_art_program_2007_empire.htm">Hoonah Artists</a></strong><br /><em>Linking to their past, providing for the future; 15 students learn Tlingit weaving and carving </em><strong><br /></strong>By BRITTANY RETHERFORD<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Fifteen Hoonah residents have been busy honing skills that not only connect them to their past, but also help ensure their financial futures. They have been learning Tlingit weaving and carving as part of a three-year art program under the auspices of the Sealaska Heritage Institute, the nonprofit arm of the Juneau-based regional Native corporation, Sealaska…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_hoonah_art_program_2007_empire.htm">more</a>) (01-07)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a id="2006" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_celebration_2008_dates_set.htm">’08 Celebration days announced</a><br /></strong>By BRITTANY RETHERFORD<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Juneau residents and business owners, prepare to mark your 2008 calendars – the Sealaska Heritage Institute has set the dates for its biennial bash, Celebration, for June 5-7. The three-day cultural event will take place in Juneau, as it has since it was first kicked off in 1982, Institute President Rosita Worl said. The board of trustees officially set the dates in a meeting last week…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_celebration_2008_dates_set.htm">more</a>) (10-06)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_latseen_camp_2006_empire.htm">Young Natives go to culture ‘boot camp’ </a></strong><br /><em>Sharing Heritage </em><br />By ELIZABETH BLUEMINK<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />About 40 young Alaska Native recruits are finishing up an intense, two-week leadership camp in Juneau this week. The students – all descendants of Sealaska Corp. shareholders – stretched their knowledge with rigorous lectures about Native heritage…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_latseen_camp_2006_empire.htm">more</a>) (08-06)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/story_radio_03NativeArtLong.mp3">SHI Announces Juried Art Competition Winners</a></strong><br />A former Juneau weaver now living in Colorado has won a major Southeast Alaska Native art contest. Clarissa Hudsonâs âCopper Man,â a set of regalia including a Ravenstail robe, earned Best of Show in the third Sealaska Juried Art Competition. Other winners include David Boxley of Washington State and Lani Hotch of Klukwan. CoastAlaskaâs Ed Schoenfeld attended the competitionâs awards ceremony, spoke with the artists and filed this report. (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/story_radio_03NativeArtLong.mp3">Listen</a>) (6-06)</p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/radio_coastalaska_seaweed_2006.mp3">Williams Wins Seaweed Contest</a></strong><br />Who makes the best dried black seaweed in Southeast Alaska? Ivan Williams of Angoon, according to a panel of traditional food experts. Williams won the third biennial black seaweed contest sponsored by the Sealaska Heritage Institute as part of Celebration â06, which wrapped up over the weekend. Karen Bernhardt of Hydaburg placed second, Peggy Williams of Angoon won third place and Katherine Smith of Kake was given an honorable mention. CoastAlaskaâs Ed Schoenfeld attended the judging and prepared this report on what the experts say makes the best dried black seaweed. (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/radio_coastalaska_seaweed_2006.mp3">Listen</a>) (6-06)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/radio_coastalaska_celebration2006_2.mp3">Celebration 2006 Kicks Off</a></strong><br />By Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska Radio<br />(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/radio_coastalaska_celebration2006_2.mp3">Listen</a>) (6-06)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/radio_coastalaska_celebration2006_1.mp3">Celebration 2006 to Start</a></strong><br />By Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska Radio<br />(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/radio_coastalaska_celebration2006_1.mp3">Listen</a>) (6-06)</p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_celebration_photos_2006_empire.htm">Time for Celebration</a></strong><br />Making a grand entrance…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_celebration_photos_2006_empire.htm">more</a>) (06-02-06)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_celebration_2006_begins.htm">Welcoming the Celebration</a></strong><br />A few minutes after 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, four canoes swung around the hulking hull of the Veendam and came into view of Marine Park, passing the boat ramp before circling wide to their left…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_celebration_2006_begins.htm">more</a>) (06-01-06)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_flash_movies_2006_empire.htm">New movies bolster Native language</a></strong><br /><em>Seven films allow students to hear, se</em><em>e and interact in Tlingit<br /></em>By ERIC MORRISON<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has created seven interactive Tlingit-language movies with Flash Media software to help engage students at a critical time for the Native culture, officials said. “It’s kind of taking this old knowledge and using the modern technology to pass it on,” said Daphne Wright, a Tlingit-language teacher for the Hoonah School District…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_flash_movies_2006_empire.htm">more</a>) (4-16-06)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_education_april_2006.htm">Efforts to aid Native students succeeding </a></strong><br /><em>Forum note</em><em>s need to still raise retention rates, reduce dropouts and increase test scores<br /></em>By ERIC MORRISON<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />It may be a long road to travel to reach its destination, but the University of Alaska Southeast Native Education Working Group is heading in the right direction, said Joe Nelson. “When you look at the statistics, the retention rates, the dropout rates and performance on tests, there is a long way to go still,” said Nelson, the director of Preparing Indigenous Teachers and Administrators for Alaska Schools (PITAAS) program at UAS. “But, the good thing here is that there is discussion among key entities that are committed to improving to making progress….(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_education_april_2006.htm">more</a>) (4-9-06)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/radio_story_aprn_tlingit_exhibit_2006.mp3">New exhibit in Washington includes Tlingit and Haida objects</a></strong><br />By Joel Southern, APRN<br />WASHINGTON, DC (2006-02-03) Tlingit and Haida objects are part of “Listening to Our Ancestors,” an exhibit of art by North Pacific Coast tribes that opened Friday at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. â Copyright 2006 APRN (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/radio_story_aprn_tlingit_exhibit_2006.mp3">Listen</a>) (2-7-06)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_tlingit_exhibit_washington_2006.htm">Kake fisherman curates for Museum of the American Indian</a></strong><br /><em>‘Listening to Our Ancestors’
2039 exhibit will include more than 400 items from Alaska </em><br />By KORRY KEEKER<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Longtime Kake fisherman Clarence Jackson, 71, has served on the board of Sealaska Heritage Institute for almost 20 years and is a respected elder and oral historian. But he was humbled when the National Museum of the American Indian invited him to curate the Tlingit section of “Listening to Our Ancestors: The Art of Native Life along the North Pacific Coast,” an 11-community exhibit that opens at noon Friday in Washington, D.C…  (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_tlingit_exhibit_washington_2006.htm">more</a>) (1-30-06)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_fish_trap_replica_empire.htm">TRAPPED: Juneau residents build a replica of a centuries-old fish trap found in 1989</a></strong><br />By KORRY KEEKER<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br /></em>Basket-type fish traps played a crucial role in the foundation of Northwest Coast culture. They allowed people to gather pounds and pounds of fish for the winter, and therefore, establish semipermanent villages. This was hundreds of years ago, and most of the traditional knowledge it took to construct such a trap is long since gone. Nevertheless, Steve Henrikson, the curator of collections at the Alaska State Museum, and Jan Criswell, an experienced weaver of spruce-root and cedar-bark baskets, are creating a replica this month at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum of a basket-style trap found in Montana Creek in 1989. That trap, 500 to 700 years old, was painstakingly restored and now sits in its own display case at the City Museum…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_fish_trap_replica_empire.htm">more</a>) (1-19-06)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a id="2005" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_art_class_dec2005_empire.htm">Dancing in honor</a></strong><br />Miranda Worl, 8, a member of the Auke Bay and Mendenhall River Tlingit Dancers performs on Saturday during a ceremony to present two painted Tlingit panels that will be hung at the Auke Bay Shelter next summer…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_art_class_dec2005_empire.htm">more</a>) (12-11-05) (<em>Photo of art project sponsored by SHI</em>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_christmas_gallery_walk_2005_empire.htm">Native art shines at Ninth Annual Arts and Crafts Fair </a></strong><br />By ERIC MORRISON<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Chilkat blanket weaver Anna Brown Ehlers understands the true meaning of patience. One of several artists at the Ninth Annual Arts and Crafts Fair at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum, Brown Ehlers spent Saturday putting the finishing touches on a commissioned blanket that has taken her a year and a half to complete…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_christmas_gallery_walk_2005_empire.htm">more</a>) (12-4-05)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_haida_courses_uas_2005_empire.htm">Sealaska, UAS join to shore up Haida language</a></strong><br /><em>Many agree existing number of fluent speakers is very low </em><strong><br /></strong>By ERIC MORRISON<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />The survival of a language needs your help. A free Haida language course, sponsored by Sealaska Heritage Institute and the University of Alaska Southeast, will begin Monday at 6 p.m. in the fourth-floor conference room at the Sealaska building downtown. The 52.5-hour course will be split up over a three-week period – Oct. 17-21, Nov. 7-11 and Dec. 12-16 – with three-and-a-half-hour classes each night. “The whole goal of the classes is to really get the people who are interested in the language and to give them a grounding in the language – to give them enough ability … that they can begin to use it on a daily basis,” said Jordan Lachler, a linguist for Sealaska Heritage Institute who will be teaching the course̷
20390;(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_haida_courses_uas_2005_empire.htm">more</a>) (10-16-05)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_tunic_comes_home_2005_cvn.htm">Prized tunic on its way home to Chilkat Valley</a><br /></strong>By TOM MORPHET<br /><em>CHILKAT VALLEY NEWS<br /></em>A Chilkat Brown Bear tunic is scheduled to arrive in Klukwan Friday, brought by clan leader and former village council president Joe Hotch. When it arrives here, the woven, full-length garment will be only the ninth tunic in Tlingit possession, said Harold Jacobs, cultural resource specialist for Tlingit-Haida Central Council in Juneau. “Itâs a beautiful tunic,” said Jacobs. Ceremonial tunics are considerably rarer than Chilkat blankets, as not as many were made, he said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_tunic_comes_home_2005_cvn.htm">more</a>) (October 2005)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_tunic_comes_home_2005_empire.htm">Bringing history home </a></strong><br /><em>Historic Klukwan tunic repatriated to clan </em><br />By ERIC MORRISON<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />The spirit of Kudeinahaa has come home to Alaska. The Kaagwaantaan Clan and Sealaska Heritage Institute celebrated the repatriation of a Chilkat Brown Bear tunic and its return to Alaska Thursday morning at the Sealaska Building in Juneau. In accordance with the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act of 1990, the ceremonial property, or at.âow, was returned by the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in Berkeley, Calif. “It’s a really joyous occasion for us whenever we can bring any of our at.âow home, and usually it is followed with great celebration,” SHI President Rosita Worl said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_tunic_comes_home_2005_empire.htm">more</a>) (10-07-05)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_klawock_totem_raising_2005_empire.htm">Klawock raises seven totem poles</a><br /></strong>By LEILA KHEIRY<strong><br /></strong><em>KETCHIKAN DAILY NEWS</em><br />KLAWOCK – Even with about 60 people working together, 2,000 or more pounds of carved wood is really heavy, especially when it has to be carried uphill, carefully lowered, spun, pulled upright, readjusted and then held steady as it’s bolted into place. Even so, citizens of Klawock and visitors from all over Alaska, the Lower 48 and even a few from overseas were on hand for the raising of seven totem poles over a three-day period…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_klawock_totem_raising_2005_empire.htm">more</a>) (08-23-05)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_photo_totem_webcam_2005_empire.htm">Photo: Start of a totem pole</a></strong><br />Brian Wallace<br /><em>Juneau Empire</em><br />Juneau carver Jim Markes uses an adze to carve a rough form of a seven-foot-long totem Tuesday at Sealaska Plaza…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_photo_totem_webcam_2005_empire.htm">more</a>) (08-17-05)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_totem_webcam_2005_empire.htm">Carving of totem focus of Web cam</a></strong><br />JUNEAU – Sealaska Heritage Institute is hosting a live camera on its Web site showing master carvers Ray Peck and Jim Marks carving a totem pole at Sealaska Plaza. The Web site is <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/">www.sealaskaheritage.org</a>. The Web venture marks the first time the institute has broadcast a Native art project live on the Internet, said Dr. Rosita Worl, president of the institute…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_totem_webcam_2005_empire.htm">more</a>) (08-12-05)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_latseen_camp_uas_2005_empire.htm">Strength of mind, body, spirit </a></strong><br /><em>Sealaska presents Latseen Leadership Training to bring students to culture </em><br />By I-CHUN CHE<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Jamie McDonald considers herself an Alaska Native. But she didn’t speak Tlingit and knew little about the culture until she participated in the Latseen Leadership Training at the University of Alaska Southeast. Between Aug. 3 and Aug. 13, McDonald will learn topics from Tlingit language to Tlingit law to Tlingit history. “For me, the most important part of the program is to know other kids are in the same situation, just getting started to learn the language and heritage,” McDonald, 20, said. Sealaska Heritage Institute, the cultural arm of Sealaska Corp., is offering the program for the first time. “Latseen” means “strength of mind, body and spirit” in Tlingit. Sealaska Corp. is the regional for-profit Native corporation for Southeast Alaska…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_latseen_camp_uas_2005_empire.htm">more</a>) (08-10-05)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_juneau_tlingit_camp_2005_empire.htm">Learning Tlingit language is challenge and joy for children </a></strong><br /><em>Camp weaves education with whale and animal activities </em><br />By ANDREW PETTY<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />On a clear Friday afternoon, third-grader Michaela Martin told her camp teacher “it’s sunny outside” in Tlingit. Children, who are learning how to speak the Native tongue, really shine at the Juneau School District’s summer culture camp, said parent Mariana Goodwin. “We’ve got books at home,” Goodwin said. “But kids seem to listen more to strangers.” The camp is funded by a federal grant to Sealaska Heritage Institute and passed on to the school district…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_juneau_tlingit_camp_2005_empire.htm">more</a>) (07-24-05)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_migration_grant_hp_2005_empire.htm">Sealaska Heritage to collect migration stories, songs of Tlingits </a></strong><br />By ERIC FRY<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />When Clarence Jackson Sr. is alone at the wheel of his seiner, he sometimes turns on a recording of his grandfather’s voice and listens once again to stories about Tlingits returning to Southeast Alaska after an absence. Jackson’s great-grandfather, who was 100 in 1948, also talked about migrations down the Taku, Stikine and Nass rivers. One story speaks of elders rafting on a river under a glacier to get to the coast. “As they went, they sang a mourning song for themselves as they disappeared under the ice,” Jackson said…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_migration_grant_hp_2005_empire.htm">more</a>) (07-08-05)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/story_TalkingCircle_coastalaska.mp3">
2039Shim-al-gyack (Tsimshian) Talking Circle</a><br /></strong><em>(Radio story by Coast Alaska reporter Ed Schoenfeld)</em><br />Nancy Barnes stands in her living room holding a Shim-al-gyack language book. A pot of stew bubbles in the kitchen behind her as she leads the Tsimshian language talking circle she helped organize. The group uses a technique called total physical reponse…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/story_TalkingCircle_coastalaska.mp3">more</a>) (06-28-05)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_migration_grant_hp_2005.htm">Study to focus on migration of eight Southeast clans </a></strong><br /><em>Songs, dances, oral histories to be collected from elders with $40,000 from federal grant</em><em><br />THE ASSOCIATED PRESS</em><br />The migration of eight Southeast Alaska clans will be documented through a federally funded project planned by Sealaska Heritage Institute. A $40,000 grant from the National Park Service will pay for collecting clan songs, dances and oral histories from elders and other clan members…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_migration_grant_hp_2005.htm">more</a>) (06-28-05)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_haida_dictionary_2005.htm">Dictionary preserves language of the Haida </a></strong><br />By ERIC FRY<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Scholar John Enrico has compiled the first comprehensive Haida dictionary, the fruit of years of living among the last generation of people who spoke the language regularly at home. About 40 people speak Haida today, not all fluently, Enrico said. The Haida Dictionary was recently published by Sealaska Heritage Institute in Juneau and the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_haida_dictionary_2005.htm">more</a>) (06-26-05)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_kusteeyi_2005.htm">Program is ‘nest’ for Native languages </a><br /></strong>By ERIC FRY<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Learning Tlingit has changed the lives of the 10 or so young adults in Juneau who have dedicated themselves to the language, one student says. “We had fairly life-changing experiences when we took it to heart to keep the language going, because of the Tlingit concept of respect,” Vivian Mork said. Mork said Tlingit wasn’t spoken fluently in Wrangell when she grew up there. She began to study Tlingit after moving to Juneau in 2002 to enroll in a summer language program, Kusteeyâ, sponsored by Sealaska Heritage Institute. She also enrolled at the University of Alaska Southeast, which has a Tlingit program…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_kusteeyi_2005.htm">more</a>) (06-16-05)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_meet_lydia_kiny.htm"> <strong>“Meet Lydia” now available at local bookstores</strong></a><br />The author of new book about a native girl from Southeast Alaska and her subject were guests on KINY’s Capital Chat this morning. (Wednesday) Miranda Belarde-Lewis wrote the book about her cousin Lydia Mills…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_meet_lydia_kiny.htm">more</a>) (04-06-05)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_food_publication.htm">Elders help USFS make over book on Tlingit food</a></strong><br /><em>Publication features recipes, preparation, detailed descriptions of how to dry fish</em><strong><br /></strong>By ERIC FRY<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />When the U.S. Forest Service approached Southeast Alaska elders about how to revise a booklet on Tlingit food, the elders asked that “subsistence” not appear in the title. “Subsistence” connotes handouts, but putting up food isn’t an easy job, elder Ray Wilson said Tuesday. The word seemed to be a regulatory term and didn’t convey Native respect for nature and food, elders told the agency…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_food_publication.htm">more</a>) (03-23-05)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_celebration_venue_decided.htm">
2039Juneau wins bid to keep Celebration </a></strong><br /><em>City’s pledge of $10,000 swayed board to choose capital city for biennial event<br /></em>By I-CHUN CHE<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Celebration is coming back to Juneau in 2006. After reviewing offers from Ketchikan and Juneau, Sealaska Heritage Institute, the event’s organizer, has decided to keep it in Juneau. This was the first time the institute solicited bids outside of Juneau, and Ketchikan made a play for it. The capital has hosted the biennial Native cultural event since its inception in 1982. Rosita Worl, president of the institute, said the board of trustees chose Juneau for the city’s financial contribution…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_celebration_venue_decided.htm">more</a>) (03-11-05)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/31NativeArchiveLong.mp3">Sealaska Heritage considers archival center</a></strong><strong><br /></strong><em>(Radio story by Coast Alaska reporter Ed Schoenfeld)</em><br />A Juneau-based cultural organization wants to create a home for historic and traditional items belonging to tribal groups. CoastAlaskaâs Ed Schoenfeld reports on the Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs plans for an archive and cultural center…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/31NativeArchiveLong.mp3">more</a>) (02-07-05)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_curriculum_program.htm">Heritage Institute seeks to connect education to Native experience</a></strong><br />The Associated Press<br />JUNEAU (AP) – When Amelia Rivera attended high school, she didn’t hear much about her Native heritage from her teachers. “It’s something that I never studied. To be honest, it was something that I was taught to be ashamed of,” she said. “It was just a little while ago that I started learning about my culture.”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_curriculum_program.htm">more</a>) (02-04-05)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a id="2004" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_book.htm">Institute says book teaches language, values </a></strong><br /><em>Sealaska linguist: children’s book not like ‘Dick and Jane’ </em><strong><br /></strong>By ERIC FRY<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE </em><br />When a Tlingit boy is rude to his mother and contemptuous of a piece of salmon, it’s an opportunity to teach respect. A new illustrated book published by Sealaska Heritage Institute tells a shortened version of an old story as a way to teach the Tlingit language and Tlingit values to young children…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_book.htm">more</a>) (12-24-04)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/radio_story_curriculum_2004.mp3">Sealaska Heritage Develops Culturally-Relevant High School Curriculum</a></strong><em><br />(Radio story by CoastAlaska reporter Ed Schoenfeld)</em><br />Tlingit language expert Nora Marks Dauenhauer shares a table with about a dozen teenagers in Juneauâs alternative high school. While discussing the history of Glacier Bay, the storyteller, poet and author talks about sub, migration, alienation and respect for elders…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/radio_story_curriculum_2004.mp3">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_art_workshop_2004.htm">Artists learn to engrave</a></strong><br /><em>Master carver teaches locals about traditional NW form line</em><br />By ERIC FRY<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE </em><br />In short, confident strokes of pencil on paper, master carver Steven Brown drew a killer whale design for Steve Griffin. “Just make that kind of a broad bevel,” Brown said Saturday of one line that would become an engraved notch on a silver bracelet. “The dorsal fin is up and bend it back, like that. This OK?” Griffin was one of several students who took a six-day course last week in silver engraving at the Riverbend Housing community center. Brown also taught a three-day class in Northwest Coast form line for Sealaska shareholders the previous week at the Tlingit-Haida Regional Housing Authority offices. A $3,000 grant from the Alaska Native Arts Foundation, and help with travel expenses from Sealaska Heritage Institute, made the classes possible…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_art_workshop_2004.htm">more</a>) (12-05-04)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_celebration_venue.htm">Celebration up for grabs</a></strong><br /><em>Sealaska Heritage Institute will consider other communities </em><strong><br /></strong>By ELIZABETH BLUEMINK<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Celebration – one of Juneau’s largest and most lucrative events – may be leaving town. Juneau’s Sealaska Heritage Institute, which sponsors Native cultural programs throughout Southeast Alaska, has hosted the cultural festival in Juneau since 1986. But this winter the institute will solicit competitive bid proposals for Celebration 2006 from other Alaska communities such as Ketchikan, Sitka and Anchorage. A decision will be announced in February, said Rosita Worl, the institute’s president..(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_celebration_venue.htm">more</a>) (12-02-04)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_national_register_designation.htm">Indian Point may be listed on National Historic Register</a></strong><em><br /></em><em>Area would be first traditional cultural site in Alaska on list</em><strong><br /></strong>By ERIC FRY<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />The state will ask the federal government to list Indian Point on the National Register of Historic Places, officials said. The roughly 78-acre site, just north of Juneau’s state ferry terminal, is considered sacred by Tlingits, said Rosita Worl, president of Sealaska Heritage Institute, which prepared the application for listing…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_national_register_designation.htm">more</a>) (11-19-04)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/story_Bear_Play.mp3">Sealaska Heritage develops Woman Who Married a Bear</a><br /></strong><em>(Radio story by Coast Alaska reporter Ed Schoenfeld)</em><em><br /></em>David Katzeek heard about the Woman Who Married a Bear when he was a child. The traditional Tlingit tale was fam
2039iliar to families headed out to the woods and fields looking for food…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/story_Bear_Play.mp3">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_dauenhauer_award_2.htm">Juneau scholar, poet wins award from First Peoples fund </a></strong><br /><em>Nora Marks Dauenhauer is one of five recipients nationwide of 2005 Community Spirit Award </em><strong><br /></strong>By ERIC FRY<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />One day, subway riders in New York City, looking up from their tabloids and reading the ads that run above the cars’ windows, saw this poem: “Granddaughters dancing,/ blossoms / swaying in the wind.” The Streetfare Journal, which places poems in streetcars and subways, wasn’t the only anthologizer of Nora Marks Dauenhauer, but it may be the oddest. Dauenhauer, a scholar and poet in Juneau, has won a 2005 Community Spirit Award from the First Peoples Fund, a Native American organization that supports the arts. She is one of five recipients of the award, which includes a $5,000 stipend…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_dauenhauer_award_2.htm">more</a>) (11-14-04)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_language_resources.htm">Web site offers Tlingit language pronunciation</a></strong><br />By TONY CARROLL<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Hearing accurately spoken Tlingit is now just a matter of going to the Internet. On Thursday, Sealaska Heritage Institute launched a new audio language resource on its Web site to help people learn Tlingit sounds. “There are a lot of sounds in Tlingit that aren’t present in English,” said Rosita Worl, president of the institute…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_language_resources.htm">more</a>) (11-08-04)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_language_award.htm">Sealaska Heritage lauded for language program</a></strong><br />Sealaska Heritage Institute is one of two organizations to receive the Governorâs Humanities Distinguished Cultural Service Award this year for its Native language program. The award recognizes organizations for making significant contributions to the cultural heritage in Alaska through their efforts in revitalization of Alaska Native languages, according to the Alaska Humanities Forum, which sponsors the program with the Alaska State Council on the Arts…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_language_award.htm">more</a>) (10-27-04)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/article_newsletter_hoonah_retreat.pdf">Sealaska Heritage Institute Holds Tlingit Immersion Retreat in Hoonah</a></strong><br /><em>HOONAH SCHOOLS NEWSLETTER</em><br />During the month of August, Sealaska Heritage Institute sponsored a ten-day Tlingit Immersion Retreat in Hoonah. Out-of-town retreat participants stayed at the Icy Strait Lodge, where daily classes in Intermediate and Conversational Tlingit were held…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/article_newsletter_hoonah_retreat.pdf">more</a>) (October 2004)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_nmai_opening.htm">Alaskans stand out in crowd for museum’s opening</a></strong><br />By SEAN COCKERHAM<br />Anchorage Daily News<br />WASHINGTON — The Yup’ik funk harmonies of Pamyua flowed between the U.S. Capitol and the Washington Monument on Tuesday. Tens of thousands, including Robert Redford and Teresa Heinz Kerry, bopped to the unique Alaska beat that began the opening celebration of the National Museum of the American Indian…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_nmai_opening.htm">more</a>) (09-22-04)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_play_2004.htm">Playwright adapts Native story for kids </a></strong><br /><em>Summer Theatre Arts Rendezvous performances conclude today, Saturday </em><br />This March, Perseverance Theatre and Sealaska Heritage Institute invited local playwright Merry Ellefson to adapt the Native story “The Woman Who Married The Bear” for its Summer Theatre Arts Rendezvous children’s program. Ellefson had never adapted a play before, nor was she very familiar with the mores and history of Tlingit culture…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_play_2004.htm">more</a>) (08-06-04)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_DOE_grant_2004.htm">Sealaska Heritage looks to HS curriculum</a></strong><br />By ERIC FRY<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has received an $850,000 federal grant to develop a Native-oriented high school curriculum in math, science and history. The institute is a private nonprofit founded in 1981 to administer cultural and educational programs for Sealaska Corp., the Southeast regional Native corporation…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_DOE_grant_2004.htm">more</a>) (08-02-04)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/07ClanHats.mp3">Sealaska Heritage gets grant to identify Native clan hats</a><br /></strong>A Juneau-based cultural group wants to identify Southeast Native clan hats in museums across the country. The goal is to repatriate the hats to the descendents of the people who created them. CoastAlaska’s Ed Schoenfeld reports…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/07ClanHats.mp3">Radio Story</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_nagpra_grant_2004.htm">Sealaska Heritage gets federal grant to help reclaim clan hats</a></strong><strong><br /></strong><em>$71,000 will go to document, establish ownership of cultural treasures<br /></em>By TARA SIDOR<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br /></em>The Sealaska Heritage Institute in Juneau can reclaim culturally significant Tlingit clan hats from museums in the Lower 48 with the help of a new federal grant. The National Park Service awarded the institute a $71,000 grant to document and establish ownership of Southeast Alaska clan hats held by museums outside of the state…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_nagpra_grant_2004.htm">more</a>) (07-07-04)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_sitka_immersion_2004.htm">Immersion retreat helps students learn Tlingit language</a></strong><br />By Vanessa Orr<br />
2039CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY<br />A century ago, it would not have seemed strange to hear Native Alaskans speaking in Tlingit as they went about their daily chores. Now an endangered language, it is rarely spoken by anyone other than elders, or those who have chosen to study and learn this unique mode of communication…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_sitka_immersion_2004.htm">more</a>) (06-22-04)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_native_education_forum.htm">Group wants plan for Native students </a><br /></strong>By ERIC FRY<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Local educators and Native organizations are working on a plan to improve Native achievement in the Juneau schools. The group met for the first time Tuesday at ANB Hall. The effort is sponsored by the Sealaska Heritage Institute, the Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp 70 and the Tlingit-Haida Central Council…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_native_education_forum.htm">more</a>) (06-07-04)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_nmai_director.htm">Director of Native museum visits Southeast</a><br /></strong>By KORRY KEEKER<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Rick West had been invited to Celebration before. But his day job, as director of the National Museum of the American Indian, had always kept him preoccupied. This year, he made Celebration a priority. West participated in Thursday’s opening ceremonies, offering remarks and a brief speech about the museum’s upcoming grand opening…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_nmai_director.htm">more</a>) (06-06-04)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_documentary.htm">Documentary film to preserve oral traditions<br />Former Juneau residents produce Dance Regalia Documentary Project</a></strong><br />By KORRY KEEKER<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Under a white tent Saturday afternoon in front of Centennial Hall, Ken Hoff, a raven of the Tongass Tribe, shared the story of his Uncle Sonny…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_documentary.htm">more</a>) (06-06-04)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_celebration_2004.htm">It’s time to celebrate tradition<br />Event expected to draw more than 5,000 people across the country </a></strong><br />THE JUNEAU EMPIRE<br />Forty-seven dance groups, five more than in 2002, will star in Celebration 2004, Thursday-Sunday at Centennial Hall, the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall, Sealaska Plaza, the Mount Roberts Tramway and Marine Park.</p><p style="font-weight: 400;">The Sealaska Heritage Institute expects the biennial Native dance-and-culture festival, conceived in 1980, to draw more than 5,000 people from Alaska, the Lower 48 and Canada…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_celebration_2004.htm">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_canoe_races_2004.htm">Canoe races could be competitive</a><br /></strong>By KORRY KEEKER<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Respect will be the name of the game when five canoe teams compete at Sunday’s 2 p.m. Gathering of the Canoes at Sandy Beach. The traditional races, with canoes of 10 paddlers and a rudderman, are held in conjunction with the biennial Celebration…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_canoe_races_2004.htm">more</a>) (06-04-04)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_rangimarie_2004.htm">Rangimarie brings ‘peace and harmony’</a></strong><br />By KORRY KEEKER<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />The 14 members of Maori singing and dancing group Rangimarie walked about 100 feet from their arrival gate Wednesday at Juneau Airport, before they had their first experience with Alaska Natives…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_rangimarie_2004.htm">more</a>) (06-04-04)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_black_seaweed_contest_2004.htm">Contest celebrates food from the sea</a><br /></strong>By CATHY BROWN, Associated Press Writer<br />JUNEAU (June 4, 5:24 pm ADT) – Rose Gerber tastes black seaweed the way some people taste wine. “Relaxing,” she says after savoring an entry in Sealaska Heritage Institute’s black seaweed contest. “That one’s good for boiled fish,” she declares of entry No. 2. And No. 4 is “like eating chips.”…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_black_seaweed_contest_2004.htm">more</a>) (06-05-04)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_sitka_group_leads_2004.htm">Sitka Kaagwaantaan to lead this morning’s grand parade</a><br /></strong>By KORRY KEEKER<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Ed Mercer and the Sitka Kaagwaantaan are honored to be the lead dance group for today’s 8 a.m. Grand Entrance and Saturday’s 8 a.m. parade in Celebration 2004. The group, formed by Mercer and Naomi Kanosh 10 years ago, is expecting 90 to 95 members to
2039show up this year. The Kaagwaantaan is one of a record 47 dance groups performing at Celebration…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_sitka_group_leads_2004.htm">more</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_seaweed_contest_rules_2004.htm">Seaweed contest to feature new rules<br />Elders will be able to vote for their favorite varieties; results to be tallied Friday </a><br /></strong>By KORRY KEEKER<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />On the rocks of Cone Island and Hole-in-Wall, due west of Craig, Klawock’s Henrietta Kato finds what she’s looking for. Those are good spots for black seaweed – often called laak’ask, wild celery or yanaide. It’s a shimmery green in the water, a rich black when dry. It grows in clumpy blades, two inches wide and sometimes 20 inches long. During minus tides, often in early May, it’s time to pick…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_seaweed_contest_rules_2004.htm">more</a>) (06-02-04)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_jennie_thlunaut.htm">Preserving the Tlingit ‘fringe about the body’ </a></strong><br /><em>Jennie Thlunaut was entrusted with Chilkat weaving technology, and she was prolific</em><strong><br /></strong>By ANN CHANDONNET<strong><br /></strong><em>FOR THE JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Jennie Thlunaut may be not a household name, but if she had lived in Japan she would probably have been declared a national treasure…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_jennie_thlunaut.htm">more</a>) 04-21-04 (<em>This article was derived from materials produced by Sealaska Heritage Institute, including the video âJennie Thlunaut, Chilkat weaverâ and “Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing Our Spirit,” Vol. 2.</em>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/press/radio_story_CELEBRATION_KTOO.mp3">“SHI Prepares for Celebration 2004”</a></strong><br />(Radio story by Coast Alaska reporter Ed Schoenfeld)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>SHI Posts Job Announcement in Tlingit</strong><br />by Dixie Hutchinson, KNBA-FM<br />The Sealaska Heritage Institute would like to see the Tlingit language used every day. The regional non-profit is backing that initiative by posting a job announcement for a language specialist in Tlingit. Sociolinguist for the Institute Roy Mitchell says there are a number of Tlingit speakers but finding people who are literate in both Tlingit and English is challenging. Mitchell says part of the message is that there are employment opportunities for people who have those abilities…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/news_article_tlingit_job_announcement.htm">more</a>) (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/20_mitchell_1.mp3">Audio</a>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;">(<strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/radio%20story%20HAIDALANGUAGE.mp3">KRBD-FM story on SHI’s new office</a></strong>)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;">(<strong>KTUU-TV story about SHI’s new Native art web,  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.alaskanativeartists.com/">www.alaskanativeartists.com</a></strong>)<br />l  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/ktuu_story_art_web.wmv">Windows Media</a> or <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/ktuu_story_art_web.rm">RealOne</a></p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a id="2003" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_meet_the_tlingit.htm">Meet the Tlingit</a></strong><br />By Pat Chargot<br /><em>YAK’S CORNER<br /></em>(SHI President Rosita Worl helped a reporter write about the Tlingit for <
2039a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150516095142/http://nieonline.com/detroit/yak.cfm">Yak’s Corner</a>, a newsmagazine for kids)…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_meet_the_tlingit.htm">more</a>) 11-09-03</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_native_art_website.htm">Web site works to promote Native artists</a><br /></strong>By TARA SIDOR<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE â 2003</em><br />Tommy Jimmie Sr. put away his wood-carving tools more than 15 years ago, but he is coming out of retirement thanks to a new Web site that markets Native art. “I just want to get back to carving,” said Jimmie, 75. “I figure I’m just as good an artist as those other guys out there.” Sealaska Heritage Institute recently launched the Web site, www.alaskanativeartists.com, to help Natives such as Jimmie, who is Tlingit, capitalize on the tourism market…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_native_art_website.htm">more</a>) 10-21-03</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_Tlingit_promoted_Washington.htm">Kanen accepts job in Washington, D.C.</a><br /></strong>Dale Kanen, U.S. Forest Service district ranger for Craig, has been selected to oversee the agencyâs national Office of Tribal Relations in Washington, D.C…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_Tlingit_promoted_Washington.htm">more</a>) 10-01-03</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_Alaska_Native_corps_1.htm">Corporations: Alaska Natives exert control</a></strong><br /><em>Part one (Indian Country Today)<br /></em>A camel is a horse designed by committee. Thatâs how a modern-day proverb puts it. To listen to Rosita Worl, the Alaska Native corporation is a similar animal, drafted by Congressional committees to reinvent Native life in our largest state…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_Alaska_Native_corps_1.htm">more</a>)  10-01-03</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_education_funds.htm">$14.5 million in federal funds to boost Native school programs across the state</a></strong><strong><br /></strong>By ERIC FRY<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE â 2003</em><br />The office of Sen. Ted Stevens announced this week that $14.5 million in federal funds will go to Native education programs in Alaska. In Juneau, the money will help expand a Tlingit-oriented elementary school program, continue a popular science summer camp that has a Native focus and provide home educational and social services to preschoolers…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_education_funds.htm">more</a>) 10-01-03</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_IMLS_grant_2.htm">Grant helps Sealaska Heritage go digital with photo archive</a></strong><br />By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE â 2003</em><br />Sealaska Heritage Institute, a nonprofit organization that promotes Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian culture, is set to digitize and post thousands of historical photos on the Internet. The Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency that invests in libraries and museums, awarded Sealaska Heritage a $147,639 grant to post photos owned by Sealaska Heritage and the regional Native organization Sealaska Corp…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_IMLS_grant_2.htm">more</a>) 09-29-03</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_Tlingit_immersion_retreat_2003.htm">Hear our words</a></strong><br /><em>Language retreat at Glacier Bay Lodge affords an opportunity to speak Tlingit 24 hours a day<br /></em>By SCOTT FOSTER<br /><em>For the Juneau Empire â 2003</em><br />Study German or French in school and you can look forward to a European trip as a reward and an opportunity to further develop language skills in the real world. “Unfortunately, there’s not a Tlingit-speaking world for us to go to,” said Roy Mitchell, a sociolinguist at the Sealaska Heritage Institute. “We’re trying to do the next best thing, which is make one ourselves.” That next best thing was a 10-day Tlingit language immersion retreat…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_Tlingit_immersion_retreat_2003.htm">more</a>) 09-28-03)</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_K3_summer_camp.htm">Tlingit culture camp prepares kids for school </a></strong><br />By ERIC FRY<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE â 2003</em><br />The young children, led by teacher Kitty Eddy’s voice and her fingers, chanted in unison as they counted in English from one to 100, pausing to stretch out the nines – “thirty-niiiiine” – before gathering speed on the next set of numbers. Then they counted, with the same vigor, the numbers in Tlingit…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_K3_summer_camp.htm">more</a>)  08-17-03</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_SKP_2003_.htm">Learning by doing </a></strong><br /><em>Native language institute works to stave off decline of traditional tongues</em><strong><br /></strong>By ERIC FRY <strong><br /></strong><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE â 2003</em><br />Students in Donna May Roberts’ class in Shim-al-gyack, the language of the Tsimshian Indians, point to the ground in unison, walk in place, rub their stomachs, make kissy sounds and generally do whatever she says. It looks like an aerobics class, but that’s the way Roberts teaches language, and it’s becoming an important element in the Native language courses at Sealaska Heritage Institute’s Kusteeyi program…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_SKP_2003_.htm">more</a>) 08-14-03</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/press/KTOO_PITAS_story.mp3">(KTOO-FM story about P.I.T.A.S.)</a></strong><br />Reporter intro: “Thirty-five Alaska Native students â fourteen of them freshmen – will be at the University of Alaska this fall working towards education degrees under full federal scholarships. Itâs the fourth year of a program that aims to get more native teachers into rural schools. As Anne Sutton reports, incoming students gathered on campus last week for prep classes and orientation.” (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/press/KTOO_PITAS_story.mp3">Click here to listen to a story about P.I.T.A.S. by KTOO-FM reporter Anne Sutton</a>) 08-12-03</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_Tlingit_K3_success.htm">Tlingit classrooms – a good report card </a></strong><br /><em>Emphasis is on English, Tlingit language instruction, Native culture </em><br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE â 2003</em><br />Students in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/programs/tlingit_k-3.html">Tlingit-oriented classrooms at Harborview Elementary</a> generally perform as well as other students in the school district, and do better than Native students on average, a recent study shows…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_Tlingit_K3_success.htm">more</a>) 08-11-03</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_award_courage.htm">Native leader wins Women of Courage Award</a></strong></p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em></p><p style="font-weight: 400;">Rosita Worl of Juneau, comedian Rosie O’Donnell and former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno were among nine women awarded the 2003 Women of Courage Award on June 14 in Washington, D.C. …(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_award_courage.htm">more</a>) 06-20-03</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_scholarships_awarded_2003.htm"><strong>Heritage Institute awards more than $1 million in scholarships</strong></a><br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Sealaska Heritage Institute will award $1.013 million in scholarships to 678 Sealaska shareholders and desce
2039ndants. The awards, funded by Sealaska Corp. and by grants, will go to Southeast Alaska Natives pursuing educational opportunities during the 2003-04 school year…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_scholarships_awarded_2003.htm">more</a>)  05-02-03</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_oratory.htm"><strong>A forum for Native voices</strong></a><br /><em>Oratory society presents a new generation of speakers</em><br />By ERIC FRY<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Ernestine Hayes, who was raised by her grandmother in Juneau while her mother was hospitalized, said she never doubted her mother missed her. When she gave an oration recently, she linked her story with that of people who have been separated from the land, “and the land still misses them.” An Alaska Native oratory society founded last year is providing an audience for a new generation of speakers, say local educators and students…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_oratory.htm">more</a>) 04-28-03</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/news_article_tsimshian_materials.htm"><strong>User-friendly Tsimshian-language curriculum is basis for courses</strong></a><br /><em>Perhaps only a few dozen in Alaska can speak fluent Shim-al-gyack</em><br />By ERIC FRY<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br /></em>Debi White, a Tsimshian Indian in Ketchikan, said her mother remembered elders speaking their Native language when they didn’t want the children to understand what they were saying. “So when I was growing up, a few words were spoken but not the language,” said White, who runs a cultural program in the schools for the Ketchikan Indian Community…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/news_article_tsimshian_materials.htm">more</a>)  04-21-03</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/bessie_cooley_honored.htm"><strong>Queen honors Sealaska employee</strong></a><br />By CHRISTINE SCHMID<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE<br /></em>Bessie Cooley used to get punished for speaking Tlingit. Now, she’s receiving an award from the queen of England for using her Native language…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/bessie_cooley_honored.htm">more</a>) 01-24-03</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a id="2002" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/jim_dixon_lecture.htm"><strong>Cave reveals 10,500 year old remains</strong></a><br />By KRISTIN PRICE<br /><em>CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY</em><br />Anthropologist Jim Dixon believes that the first humans in North America populated the continent via the Northwest Coast. Dixon, author of <em>Bones, Boats and Bison,</em> and the principle investigator on an excavation project on Prince of Wales Island, spoke December 18 at the Sealaska Building in Juneau…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/jim_dixon_lecture.htm">more</a>) 12-25-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/nagpra_seminar.htm"><strong>Repatriation conference helps clans learn about bringing their past home</strong></a><br />By RILEY WOODFORD<br /><em>JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Thousands of objects made by Tlingit and Haida people – artwork, tools and sacred religious items – were taken from Southeast Alaska during the past 200 years. Some of these artifacts will remain in private collections and public museums. Others may be returning to Alaska, thanks to a federal law that allows Native Americans to reclaim cultural objects and even human remains… (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/nagpra_seminar.htm">more</a>) 12-09-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/lecture_dr_leer.htm"><strong>Sealaska to kick off new lecture series in Juneau</strong></a><br /><em>FOR THE JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Distinguished Tlingit linguist Jeff Leer will be the inaugural speaker featured at the new Sealaska Heritage Lecture Series, scheduled Tuesday, Nov. 12. The lecture series is a new project by Sealaska Heritage Institute meant to tap expertise of Alaska Native language and culture scholars for the benefit of the public, said SHI President Rosita Worl…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/lecture_dr_leer.htm">more</a>) 11-08-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/shi_wins_doe_grant.htm"><strong>More funds for Tlingit language immersion</strong></a><br /><em>THE JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />An ongoing Tlingit language immersion effort run by a Juneau-based nonprofit group has won another large federal grant. The Sealaska Heritage Institute program is receiving $864,000 from the U.S. Department of Education’s Alaska Native Education Program. The institute was awarded a $446,000 grant from the federal Administration for Native Americans in September…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/shi_wins_doe_grant.htm">more</a>) 10-10-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/new_page_11.htm"><strong>Sealaska Heritage Institute wins $600,000 for language programs</strong></a><br /><em>FOR THE JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />The Administration for Native Americans has awarded a grant to Sealaska Heritage Institute for Native language immersion programs in Southeast Alaska. The funding bodes a major step forward for SHI’s Tlingit language program, said SHI President Rosita Worl…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/new_page_11.htm">more</a>) 9-18-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/stella_martin.htm"><strong>Empire editorial: Remembering Stella Martin</strong></a><br />The measure of a community is more its people than scenery or commerce. For all its beauty, a forested mountain does not bestow dignity on the residents below; trade may create jobs and generate wealth, but it does not of itself address the problems of human relationships. People extend dignity and respect to one another. People resolve conflicts among those with differing interests, values and cultures. Or they don’t. Because we all depend on good people to help make us better people, Stella Martin will be missed…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/stella_martin.htm">more</a>) 9-1-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/stella_martin_passes.htm"><strong>SE loses Native leader</strong></a><br /><em>Stella Martin remembered for community activism</em><br />By KRISTAN HUTCHISON<br /><em>THE JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Stella Martin is being remembered today by the community she dedicated her life to helping. Martin, who died Monday at age 79, had been active in Native and civic organizations for most of her life, including the Alaska Native Sisterhood and Alaska Native Brotherhood, Tlingit and Haida Community Council, and the Salvation Army…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/stella_martin_passes.htm">more</a>) (See also <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/obituary_stella.htm">Obituary</a>)  8-30-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/tlingit_immersion.htm"><strong>Creating a habitat for Tlingit</strong></a><br /><em>Total immersion language camp puts students in touch with another time </em><br />By KRISTAN HUTCHISON<br /><em>THE JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Last week Tlingit language students made the equivalent of a trip abroad, or back in time, to a place where only Tlingit was spoken. While students of French would fly to Paris, the seven Tlingit-language students and five fluent speakers spent a week at a camp near Berners Bay. There they created what they couldn’t find elsewhere, a community where they would hear and speak only Tlingit…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/tlingit_immersion.htm">more</a>)  8-25-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/ski_2002.htm"><strong>Juneau Tlingit institute expands to Ketchikan, Sitka</strong></a><br />By KRISTAN HUTCHISON<br /><em>THE JUNEAU EMPIRE â 2002</em><br />It’s the first year for Sealaska’s Tlingit immersion retreat, but the fourth for the annual summer Tlingit institute. The Sealaska Kusteeyi Institute teaches Tlingit-language students and their teachers. Shirley Kendall came down from Anchorage for the two-week program in Juneau. As a Tlingit-language teacher, she found the teaching-methods class useful…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/ski_2002.htm">more</a>)  8-25-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/article_bowlsby.htm"><strong>Sealaska receives artifact gift</strong></a><br /><em>Donation is largest from private collector</em><br />By GENEVIEVE GAGNE-HAWES<br /><em>THE JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Sealaska Heritage Institute has received a gift of more than 50 N
2039ative artifacts from an Oregon businessman, its largest donation by a private collector to date. Bob Bowlsby, chief executive officer for Oregon’s Spacesaver Specialists, said he received the objects 35 years ago from an 80-year-old woman who traveled throughout Alaska as a teacher in the early 1900s…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/article_bowlsby.htm">more</a>) (Click <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/collection/collection.htm">here</a> for photos!)  7-28-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/ketchikan_ski1.htm"><strong>Institute works to preserve Native languages</strong></a><br />By LEILA KHEIRY<br /><em>Daily News Staff Writer</em><br />Ketchikan recently was host to an annual program that aims to preserve Native Alaska languages by increasing the number of fluent speakers. On Friday, the Sealaska Heritage Instituteâs annual Native Language Institute wrapped up two weeks of intensive classes during which students learned the basics of Haida, Tlingit and Shim-al-gyack â the Tsimshian language… (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/ketchikan_ski1.htm">more</a>)  7-22-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/free_classes.htm"><strong>Free Tlingit language class offered every week</strong></a><br /><em>THE JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Hans Chester, a language student and assistant instructor of Tlingit at the University of Alaska Southeast, is offering a Tlingit language class from 2:30 to 4 p.m. every Saturday in the Naa Kaani Room at the Goldbelt Hotel… (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/free_classes.htm">more</a>)  7-5-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/article_juried_art.htm"><strong>Inspired by tradition</strong></a><br /><em>The state museum’s juried art show includes traditional Native art and new interpretations of ancient forms</em><br />By RILEY WOODFORD<br /><em>THE JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Native artist Clarissa Hudson took influences from Hawaii and Jamaica, the Seminole and her own Tlingit heritage to create “Copper Woman,” a regalia dance outfit that won Best of Show at the Sealaska Juried Art Show…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/article_juried_art.htm">more</a>) 5-30-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/new_page_16.htm"><strong>Traditional rattle seized, returned to Southeast</strong></a><br /><em>Raven rattle was confiscated in undercover operation by the National Park Service</em><br />By BEN MURRAY<br /><em>SITKA SENTINEL</em><br />SITKA – After 200 years and an extraordinary journey, a piece of Alaska Native heritage came home last weekend. A traditional Raven rattle, or Yeil Sheishoox, dating back to the early 1800s, returned to Southeast several years after being seized in an undercover operation by the National Park Service. The ceremonial rattle was repatriated under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 and was unveiled Saturday in Juneau as part of Celebration 2002, a biennial gathering of Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian tribes…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/new_page_16.htm">more</a>)  6-11-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/article_celebration.htm"><strong>Celebration: Making the connections</strong></a><br /><em>Event’s cultural resources, performances revive individual ties to tribal communities</em><br />By RILEY WOODFORD<br /><em>THE JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Toni Welch experienced an epiphany at her first Celebration in 1998. “Coming and seeing the dancers, the pride and traditions and togetherness, I was just overwhelmed,” she said. “You can be brought up totally aside from the tradition and you come to this and it reaches down so deep inside you – and it’s there.” Welch is a Tlingit from Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. She returned to Celebration this year with her parents. She said she grew up with some elements of her Tlingit traditions, but not a lot. Her mother and grandmother had been distanced from their heritage. Celebration is part of a process in recent years that has reconnected them…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/article_celebration.htm">more</a>) 6-9-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/article_seaweed_contest.htm"><strong>Celebration seaweed contest highlights traditional food</strong></a><br />By RILEY WOODFORD<br /><em>THE JUNEAU EMPIRE<br /></em>Black seaweed – laak’ask – has been a valuable resource for the Native people of Southeast Alaska for thousands of years. Alaska families have developed their own methods for drying and flavoring the nutritious wild food. Friday afternoon, it will prove to be a particularly valuable resource for three people who provide three judges with the tastiest sample of laak’ask…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/article_seaweed_contest.htm">more</a>) 6-6-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/article_celebration_book.htm"><strong>New book documents Celebration</strong></a><br /><em>Juneau-raised photographer captures Celebration moments since 1982 </em><br />By RILEY WOODFORD<br /><em>THE JUNEAU EMPIRE<br /></em>As a child in Juneau in the 1960s, Samuella Samaniego pored over art books in the Juneau Public Library. Now a fine-art and commercial photographer, she’s about to see a book of her own work on the shelves of Alaska’s libraries. “Celebration,” a 50-page volume of black and white photographs, documents the dancing and ceremony of Sealaska Heritage Institute’s biennial culture gathering…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/article_celebration_book.htm">more</a>) 5-30-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/article_tlingit_class.htm"><strong>Tlingit classroom increases enthusiasm</strong></a><br /><em>Harborview students perform ‘The Great Tâay’ </em><br />By GENEVIEVE GAGNE-HAWES<br /><em>THE JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Students dressed as flowers, birds and berries filled Harborview Elementary School’s Tlingit Language and Culture Classroom on Tuesday night. The classroom’s year-end play, “The Great Tâay (Garden) Party,” told the story of a girl named Amy who journeyed through the forest and across the beach searching for food. The children mixed Tlingit and English easily, counting, singing and dancing with enthusiasm…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/article_tlingit_class.htm">more</a>) 5-29-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/new_page_3.htm"><strong>Haines: Chilkoot association hosts Harvard visitors</strong></a><br /><em>CHILKAT VALLEY NEWS</em><br />The Chilkoot Indian Association showed off its assets last week to a group from Harvard University School of Government. The tribe was recently nominated for one of Harvard’
2039s 16 tribal nation-building awards for community development…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/new_page_3.htm">more</a>) 5-26-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/tlingit_immersion_success.htm"><strong>Tlingit immersion students making the grade at Harborview</strong></a><br />By MARY LOU BERRY<br /><em>CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY</em><br />When Harborview Elementary first grader Bradley Wright started kindergarten in 2000, he was virtually unaware of his heritage. âMy boy didnât know he was an Indian!â says his father, Richard Wright, of Juneau. “Well, he knew, but he wasnât knowledgeable.” Bradleyâs perception was soon to change, however, because the class Richard had enrolled him in was Kitty Eddyâs Tlingit immersion class, in which students learn both academics, and the culture and language of the Tlingit people…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/tlingit_immersion_success.htm">more</a>) 4-17-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/article_spirit_of_celebration.htm"><strong>Cards encourage Gold Medal fans to cheer in Tlingit style</strong></a><br />By ANDREW KRUEGER<br /><em>THE JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />Basketball fans attending Gold Medal Tournament games this week can urge their favorite teams to <em>Gashâat wâ kooch’âit’aa</em> – get the rebound – and play tough <em>Yan yeenâ</em> – defense – with the help of a pocket-sized listing of Tlingit yells. Sealaska Heritage Institute has printed 2,000 copies of the list, which includes 17 basketball-related Tlingit cheers and their English translations, to distribute to spectators…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/article_spirit_of_celebration.htm">more</a>) 3-28-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/horn_spoons_studied.htm"><strong>Native spoons draw anthropologist to Southeast</strong></a><br /><em>Harvard scientist seeks out elders to learn history, rituals linked to elaborately carved utensils</em><br />By RILEY WOODFORD<br /><em>THE JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />A bear cradles an otter in one carving. In another, a mysterious beast rests head-to-head with a human, their tongues connected. The elaborate Tlingit, Tsimshian and Haida carvings decorate the handles of 40 antique ceremonial spoons. The spoons were carved from goat and sheep horn, probably between 100 and 200 years ago. They have been in the collection of Harvard University’s Peabody Museum for decades, but virtually nothing was known about them…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/horn_spoons_studied.htm">more</a>)  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/publication/horn_spoon_collection.html">(Photos)</a>  3-22-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/new_page_2.htm"><strong>Class to provide Native language overview</strong></a><br />By ANDREW KRUEGER<br /><em>THE JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />A new summer course at the University of Alaska Southeast will offer a wide-ranging overview of Alaska’s indigenous languages. The three-credit class, Anthropology 393: Alaska Native Languages, is being offered as a cooperative effort between the university and the Sealaska Heritage Institute…(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/new_page_2.htm">more</a>) 3-21-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/article_native_names.htm"><strong>Native place Names</strong></a><br /><em>Offering clues to Juneau’s past </em><br />By ANN CHANDONNET<br /><em>THE JUNEAU EMPIRE</em><br />The city of Juneau is fortunate to have retained some of its Tlingit place names, and, in certain cases, to have revived others. Newcomers soon master the pronunciation of “Dzantik’i Heeni” or “Kowee” and come to relish each syllable as proof they’re not just passing through, but settling in… (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/article_native_names.htm">more</a>)  3-3-02</p><p style="font-weight: 400;">Click <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150425012133/http:/www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/articles/other1.htm"><strong>here</strong></a> to see news articles prior to 2002 </p> </div>
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2830 2831transform: translate3d(-350px,0,0) !important; 2832 2833} 2834 2835 2836 2837.sfm-sub-swipe.sfm-view-pushed-1 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-scroll-main, 2838 2839.sfm-sub-swipe.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-scroll-main, 2840 2841.sfm-sub-dropdown.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-scroll-main { 2842 2843-webkit-transform: translate3d(-100%,0,0) !important; 2844 2845transform: translate3d(-100%,0,0) !important; 2846 2847} 2848 2849 2850 2851.sfm-sub-swipe.sfm-view-pushed-2 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-1, 2852 2853.sfm-sub-swipe.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-1, 2854 2855.sfm-sub-swipe.sfm-view-pushed-3 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-2, 2856 2857.sfm-sub-swipe.sfm-view-pushed-custom.sfm-view-pushed-2 #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-2 { 2858 2859-webkit-transform: translate3d(-200%,0,0) !important; 2860 2861transform: translate3d(-200%,0,0) !important; 2862 2863} 2864 2865 2866 2867/* custom content */ 2868 2869 2870 2871.sfm-pos-left .sfm-view-pushed-1.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom { 2872 2873right: -280px; 2874 2875} 2876 2877.sfm-pos-left .sfm-view-pushed-2.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom { 2878 2879right: -560px; 2880 2881} 2882 2883.sfm-pos-left .sfm-view-pushed-3.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom { 2884 2885right: -760px; 2886 2887} 2888 2889 2890 2891.sfm-sub-swipe.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom, 2892 2893.sfm-sub-dropdown.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom { 2894 2895right: 0; 2896 2897} 2898 2899.sfm-pos-right .sfm-view-pushed-1.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar.sfm-sub-flyout .sfm-view-level-custom { 2900 2901left: -280px; 2902 2903} 2904 2905.sfm-pos-right .sfm-view-pushed-2.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar.sfm-sub-flyout .sfm-view-level-custom { 2906 2907left: -560px; 2908 2909} 2910 2911.sfm-pos-right .sfm-view-pushed-3.sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar.sfm-sub-flyout .sfm-view-level-custom { 2912 2913left: -760px; 2914 2915} 2916 2917 2918 2919.sfm-pos-left .sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom { 2920 2921transform: translate3d(100%,0,0); 2922 2923} 2924 2925.sfm-pos-right .sfm-view-pushed-custom #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-custom { 2926 2927transform: translate3d(-100%,0,0); 2928 2929} 2930 2931 2932 2933 2934 2935#sfm-sidebar { 2936 2937/*z-index: 1;*/ 2938 2939} 2940 2941#sfm-sidebar .sfm-sidebar-bg, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-social { 2942 2943background-color: transparent !important; 2944 2945} 2946 2947/*#sfm-sidebar .sfm-sidebar-bg, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-scroll-wrapper { 2948 2949opacity: 0 !important; 2950 2951} 2952 2953#sfm-sidebar.sfm-video-bg .sfm-sidebar-bg, #sfm-sidebar.sfm-sidebar-exposed .sfm-scroll-wrapper { 2954 2955opacity: 1 !important; 2956 2957}*/ 2958 2959 2960 2961#sfm-sidebar .sfm-social { 2962 2963background-color: transparent !important; 2964 2965} 2966 2967 2968 2969#sfm-sidebar .sfm-widget, 2970 2971.sfm-menu li a{ 2972 2973text-align: left !important; 2974 2975} 2976 2977 2978 2979.sfm-nav form, .sfm-menu li img, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-chapter, .sfm-menu li br,#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li:after { 2980 2981display: none !important; 2982 2983} 2984 2985 2986 2987#sfm-sidebar.sfm-sidebar-exposed, .sfm-sidebar-bg, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-nav, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-logo, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-social, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-widget { 2988 2989width: 100%; 2990 2991} 2992 2993.sfm-rollback { 2994 2995/*z-index: 3000002;*/ 2996 2997} 2998 2999.sfm-sidebar-close:before, .sfm-sidebar-close:after { 3000 3001background-color: #D92A2F; 3002 3003} 3004 3005 3006 3007#sfm-sidebar { 3008 3009opacity: 0 !important; 3010 3011visibility: hidden; 3012 3013width: 100% !important; 3014 3015} 3016 3017 3018 3019.sfm-body-pushed #sfm-sidebar, .sfm-ui-shown #sfm-sidebar { 3020 3021opacity: 1 !important; 3022 3023visibility: visible; 3024 3025} 3026 3027 3028 3029.sfm-pos-left .sfm-rollback { 3030 3031left: 0; 3032 3033right: auto; 3034 3035} 3036 3037 3038 3039.sfm-pos-right .sfm-rollback { 3040 3041left: auto; 3042 3043right: 0; 3044 3045} 3046 3047 3048 3049#sfm-overlay { 3050 3051display: none; 3052 3053} 3054 3055 3056 3057.sfm-body-pushed #sfm-overlay, body[class*="sfm-view-pushed"] #sfm-overlay { 3058 3059opacity: 1 !important; 3060 3061background: transparent !important; 3062 3063} 3064 3065.sfm-nav-bg_item { 3066 3067background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7) !important; 3068 3069} 3070 3071.sfm-style-full #sfm-sidebar .sfm-logo:before { 3072 3073background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7) !important; 3074 3075} 3076 3077.sfm-style-full #sfm-sidebar .sfm-fs-bottom-box:before { 3078 3079background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); 3080 3081} 3082 3083 3084 3085.sfm-style-full #sfm-sidebar .sfm-sidebar-close:before, 3086 3087.sfm-style-full #sfm-sidebar .sfm-sidebar-close:after { 3088 3089background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 3090 3091} 3092 3093 3094 3095#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li > a:before { 3096 3097/*-webkit-transition: none; 3098 3099transition: none; 3100 3101background: #D92A2F;*/ 3102 3103} 3104 3105 3106 3107#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li a { 3108 3109padding-left: 15px !important; 3110 3111padding-right: 15px !important; 3112 3113} 3114 3115 3116 3117#sfm-sidebar.sfm-hl-line .sfm-menu li a, 3118 3119#sfm-sidebar.sfm-hl-text .sfm-menu li a { 3120 3121padding-left: 0px !important; 3122 3123padding-right: 0px !important; 3124 3125} 3126 3127 3128 3129 3130 3131#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu a img{ 3132 3133max-width: 40px; 3134 3135max-height: 40px; 3136 3137} 3138 3139#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu .la_icon{ 3140 3141font-size: 40px; 3142 3143min-width: 40px; 3144 3145min-height: 40px; 3146 3147} 3148 3149 3150 3151#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li > a span:before { 3152 3153content: "0" attr(data-index); 3154 3155display: inline-block; 3156 3157vertical-align: super; 3158 3159font-size: 55%; 3160 3161opacity: 0.4; 3162 3163margin-right: 5px; 3164 3165} 3166 3167@media only screen and (min-width: 800px) { 3168 3169#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li.sfm-active-class > a:before { 3170 3171width: 100%; 3172 3173} 3174 3175} 3176 3177#sfm-sidebar.sfm-hl-line .sfm-menu li.sfm-active-class > a { 3178 3179background: rgba(225, 225, 225, 0.7); 3180 3181} 3182 3183 3184 3185#sfm-sidebar .sfm-back-parent { 3186 3187background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7) !important; 3188 3189} 3190 3191 3192 3193#sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-1, #sfm-sidebar ul.sfm-menu-level-1 { 3194 3195background: #767676; 3196 3197} 3198 3199 3200 3201#sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-2, #sfm-sidebar ul.sfm-menu-level-2 { 3202 3203background: #9e466b; 3204 3205} 3206 3207 3208 3209#sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-3, #sfm-sidebar ul.sfm-menu-level-3 { 3210 3211background: #36939e; 3212 3213} 3214 3215 3216 3217#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-0 li, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-0 li a, .sfm-title h3, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-back-parent { 3218 3219color: #D92A2F; 3220 3221} 3222 3223 3224 3225#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li a, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-chapter, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-back-parent { 3226 3227padding: 15px 0; 3228 3229text-transform: capitalize; 3230 3231} 3232 3233.sfm-style-full #sfm-sidebar.sfm-hl-line .sfm-menu li > a:before { 3234 3235bottom: 10px 3236 3237} 3238 3239 3240 3241#sfm-sidebar .sfm-search-form input[type=text] { 3242 3243padding-top:15px; 3244 3245padding-bottom:15px; 3246 3247} 3248 3249 3250 3251.sfm-sub-swipe #sfm-sidebar .sfm-view .sfm-menu, 3252 3253.sfm-sub-swipe .sfm-custom-content, 3254 3255.sfm-sub-dropdown .sfm-custom-content { 3256 3257padding-top: 70px; 3258 3259} 3260 3261 3262 3263#sfm-sidebar .sfm-search-form span { 3264 3265top: 29px; 3266 3267font-size: 37px; 3268
3269font-weight: bold; 3270 3271} 3272 3273 3274 3275#sfm-sidebar { 3276 3277font-family: inherit; 3278 3279} 3280 3281 3282 3283#sfm-sidebar .sfm-sm-indicator { 3284 3285line-height: 25.6px; 3286 3287} 3288 3289 3290 3291#sfm-sidebar.sfm-indicators .sfm-sm-indicator i { 3292 3293width: 18px; 3294 3295height: 18px; 3296 3297border-top-width: 8px; 3298 3299border-right-width: 8px; 3300 3301margin: -12px 0 0 -12px; 3302 3303} 3304 3305 3306 3307#sfm-sidebar .sfm-search-form input { 3308 3309font-size: 25.6px; 3310 3311} 3312 3313 3314 3315#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu li a, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu .sfm-chapter, #sfm-sidebar .sfm-back-parent { 3316 3317font-family: inherit; 3318 3319font-weight: bold; 3320 3321font-size: 20.6px; 3322 3323letter-spacing: 0px; 3324 3325text-align: left; 3326 3327-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 3328 3329text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; 3330 3331} 3332 3333 3334 3335#sfm-sidebar .sfm-social-abbr a { 3336 3337font-family: inherit; 3338 3339} 3340 3341#sfm-sidebar .sfm-widget, 3342 3343#sfm-sidebar .widget-area { 3344 3345text-align: left; 3346 3347} 3348 3349 3350 3351#sfm-sidebar .sfm-social { 3352 3353text-align: center !important; 3354 3355} 3356 3357 3358 3359#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu .sfm-chapter { 3360 3361font-size: 15px; 3362 3363margin-top: 15px; 3364 3365font-weight: bold; 3366 3367text-transform: uppercase; 3368 3369} 3370 3371#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu .sfm-chapter div{ 3372 3373font-family: inherit; 3374 3375font-size: 15px; 3376 3377} 3378 3379.sfm-rollback a { 3380 3381font-family: inherit; 3382 3383} 3384 3385#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu .la_icon{ 3386 3387color: #000000; 3388 3389} 3390 3391 3392 3393#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-0 li .sfm-sm-indicator i { 3394 3395border-color: #D92A2F; 3396 3397} 3398 3399#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-0 .sfm-sl, .sfm-title h2, .sfm-social:after { 3400 3401color: #D92B2E; 3402 3403} 3404 3405#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-1 li .sfm-sm-indicator i { 3406 3407border-color: #ffffff; 3408 3409} 3410 3411#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-1 .sfm-sl { 3412 3413color: #eeeeee; 3414 3415} 3416 3417#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-2 li .sfm-sm-indicator i { 3418 3419border-color: #ffffff; 3420 3421} 3422 3423#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-2 .sfm-sl { 3424 3425color: #eeeeee; 3426 3427} 3428 3429#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-3 li .sfm-sm-indicator i { 3430 3431border-color: #ffffff; 3432 3433} 3434 3435#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-3 .sfm-sl { 3436 3437color: #eeeeee; 3438 3439} 3440 3441.sfm-menu-level-0 .sfm-chapter { 3442 3443color: #00ffb8 !important; 3444 3445} 3446 3447.sfm-menu-level-1 .sfm-chapter { 3448 3449color: #ffffff !important; 3450 3451} 3452 3453.sfm-menu-level-2 .sfm-chapter { 3454 3455color: #FFA9AD !important; 3456 3457} 3458 3459.sfm-menu-level-3 .sfm-chapter { 3460 3461color: #FFE5C5 !important; 3462 3463} 3464 3465#sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-1 li a, 3466 3467#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-1 li a{ 3468 3469color: #ffffff; 3470 3471border-color: #ffffff; 3472 3473} 3474 3475 3476 3477#sfm-sidebar:after { 3478 3479background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 3480 3481} 3482 3483 3484 3485#sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-2 li a, 3486 3487#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-2 li a{ 3488 3489color: #FFA9AD; 3490 3491border-color: #ffffff; 3492 3493} 3494 3495 3496 3497#sfm-sidebar .sfm-view-level-3 li a, 3498 3499#sfm-sidebar .sfm-menu-level-3 li a { 3500 3501color: #FFE5C5; 3502 3503border-color: #ffffff; 3504 3505} 3506 3507 3508 3509.sfm-navicon-button { 3510 3511top: 0px; 3512 3513} 3514 3515@media only screen and (max-width: 800px) { 3516 3517.sfm-navicon-button { 3518 3519top: 0px; 3520 3521} 3522 3523} 3524 3525 3526 3527.sfm-navicon-button { 3528 3529left: 0px !important; 3530 3531} 3532 3533@media only screen and (max-width: 800px) { 3534 3535.sfm-navicon-button { 3536 3537left: 0px !important; 3538 3539} 3540 3541} 3542 3543 3544 3545@media only screen and (min-width: 800px) { 3546 3547.sfm-pos-left.sfm-bar body, .sfm-pos-left.sfm-bar #wpadminbar { 3548 3549padding-left: 350px !important; 3550 3551} 3552 3553.sfm-pos-right.sfm-bar body, .sfm-pos-right.sfm-bar #wpadminbar { 3554 3555padding-right: 350px !important; 3556 3557} 3558 3559} 3560 3561.sfm-navicon:after, 3562 3563.sfm-label-text .sfm-navicon:after, 3564 3565.sfm-label-none .sfm-navicon:after { 3566 3567top: -8px; 3568 3569} 3570 3571.sfm-navicon:before, 3572 3573.sfm-label-text .sfm-navicon:before, 3574 3575.sfm-label-none .sfm-navicon:before { 3576 3577top: 8px; 3578 3579} 3580 3581 3582 3583.sfm-body-pushed #sfm-overlay, body[class*="sfm-view-pushed"] #sfm-overlay { 3584 3585opacity: 0.9; 3586 3587} 3588 3589.sfm-body-pushed #sfm-overlay, body[class*="sfm-view-pushed"] #sfm-overlay { 3590 3591cursor: url("https://sealaskaheritage.org/wp-content/plugins/superfly-menu/img/close3.png") 16 16,pointer; 3592 3593} 3594 3595 3596 3597 3598 3599 3600 3601.sfm-style-skew #sfm-sidebar .sfm-social{ 3602 3603height: auto; 3604 3605/*min-height: 75px;*/ 3606 3607} 3608 3609.sfm-theme-top .sfm-sidebar-bg, 3610 3611.sfm-theme-bottom .sfm-sidebar-bg{ 3612 3613width: 700px; 3614 3615} 3616 3617/* Pos left */ 3618 3619.sfm-theme-top .sfm-sidebar-bg{ 3620 3621-webkit-transform: translate3d(-350px,0,0) skewX(-12.05deg); 3622 3623transform: translate3d(-350px,0,0) skewX(-12.05deg); 3624 3625} 3626 3627.sfm-theme-bottom .sfm-sidebar-bg{ 3628 3629-webkit-transform: translate3d(-700px,0,0) skewX(12.05deg); 3630 3631transform: translate3d(-350px,0,0) skewX(12.05deg); 3632 3633} 3634 3635/* Pos right */ 3636 3637.sfm-pos-right .sfm-theme-top .sfm-sidebar-bg{ 3638 3639-webkit-transform: translate3d(-0px,0,0) skewX(12.05deg); 3640 3641transform: translate3d(-0px,0,0) skewX(12.05deg); 3642 3643} 3644 3645.sfm-pos-right .sfm-theme-bottom .sfm-sidebar-bg{ 3646 3647-webkit-transform: translate3d(-0px,0,0) skewX(-12.05deg); 3648 3649transform: translate3d(-0px,0,0) skewX(-12.05deg); 3650 3651} 3652 3653/* exposed */ 3654 3655.sfm-sidebar-exposed.sfm-theme-top .sfm-sidebar-bg, 3656 3657.sfm-sidebar-always .sfm-theme-top .sfm-sidebar-bg{ 3658 3659-webkit-transform: translate3d(-116.66666666667px,0,0) skewX(-12.05deg); 3660 3661transform: translate3d(-116.66666666667px,0,0) skewX(-12.05deg); 3662 3663} 3664 3665.sfm-pos-right .sfm-sidebar-exposed.sfm-theme-top .sfm-sidebar-bg, 3666 3667.sfm-pos-right .sfm-sidebar-always .sfm-theme-top .sfm-sidebar-bg{ 3668 3669-webkit-transform: translate3d(-350px,0,0) skewX(12.05deg); 3670 3671transform: translate3d(-175px,0,0) skewX(12.05deg); 3672 3673} 3674 3675.sfm-sidebar-exposed.sfm-theme-bottom .sfm-sidebar-bg, 3676 3677.sfm-sidebar-always .sfm-theme-bottom .sfm-sidebar-bg{ 3678 3679-webkit-transform: translate3d(-233.33333333333px,0,0) skewX(12.05deg); 3680 3681transform: translate3d(-233.33333333333px,0,0) skewX(12.05deg); 3682 3683} 3684 3685.sfm-pos-right .sfm-sidebar-exposed.sfm-theme-bottom .sfm-sidebar-bg, 3686 3687.sfm-pos-right .sfm-sidebar-always .sfm-theme-bottom .sfm-sidebar-bg{ 3688 3689-webkit-transform: translate3d(-233.33333333333px,0,0) skewX(-12.05deg); 3690 3691transform: translate3d(-233.33333333333px,0,0) skewX(-12.05deg); 3692 3693} 3694 3695 3696 3697/* Always visible */ 3698 3699.sfm-sidebar-always.sfm-theme-top .sfm-sidebar-bg{ 3700 3701-webkit-transform: skewX(-12.05deg); 3702 3703transform: skewX(-12.05deg); 3704 3705} 3706 3707.sfm-pos-right .sfm-sidebar-always.sfm-theme-top .sfm-sidebar-bg{ 3708 3709-webkit-transform: skewX(12.05deg); 3710 3711transform: skewX(12.05deg); 3712 3713} 3714 3715.sfm-sidebar-always.sfm-theme-bottom .sfm-sidebar-bg{ 3716 3717-webkit-transform: skewX(-160.65deg); 3718 3719transform: skewX(-160.65deg); 3720 3721} 3722 3723.sfm-pos-right .sfm-sidebar-always.sfm-theme-bottom .sfm-sidebar-bg{ 3724 3725-webkit-transform: skewX(160.65deg); 3726 3727transform: skewX(160.65deg); 3728 3729} 3730 3731 3732 3733.sfm-navicon, 3734 3735.sfm-navicon:after, 3736 3737.sfm-navicon:before, 3738 3739.sfm-label-metro .sfm-navicon-button, 3740 3741#sfm-mob-navbar { 3742 3743background-color: #000000; 3744 3745} 3746 3747 3748 3749.sfm-label-metro .sfm-navicon, 3750 3751#sfm-mob-navbar .sfm-navicon, 3752 3753.sfm-label-metro .sfm-navicon:after, 3754 3755#sfm-mob-navbar .sfm-navicon:after, 3756 3757.sfm-label-metro .sfm-navicon:before, 3758 3759#sfm-mob-navbar .sfm-navicon:before { 3760 3761background-color: #ffffff; 3762 3763} 3764 3765.sfm-navicon-button .sf_label_icon{ 3766 3767color: #ffffff; 3768 3769} 3770 3771 3772 3773.sfm-label-square .sfm-navicon-button, 3774 3775.sfm-label-rsquare .sfm-navicon-button, 3776 3777.sfm-label-circle .sfm-navicon-button { 3778 3779color: #ffffff; 3780 3781} 3782 3783 3784 3785.sfm-navicon-button .sf_label_icon{ 3786 3787width: 100px; 3788 3789height: 100px; 3790 3791font-size: calc(100px * .6); 3792 3793} 3794 3795.sfm-navicon-button .sf_label_icon.la_icon_manager_custom{ 3796 3797width: 100px; 3798 3799height: 100px; 3800 3801} 3802 3803.sfm-navicon-button.sf_label_default{ 3804 3805width: 100px; 3806 3807height: 100px; 3808 3809} 3810 3811 3812 3813#sfm-sidebar [class*="sfm-icon-"] { 3814 3815color: #aaaaaa; 3816 3817} 3818 3819 3820 3821#sfm-sidebar .sfm-social li { 3822 3823border-color: #aaaaaa; 3824 3825} 3826 3827 3828 3829#sfm-sidebar .sfm-social a:before { 3830 3831color: #aaaaaa; 3832 3833} 3834 3835 3836 3837#sfm-sidebar .sfm-search-form { 3838 3839background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); 3840 3841} 3842 3843 3844 3845#sfm-sidebar li:hover span[class*='fa-'] { 3846 3847opacity: 1 !important; 3848 3849} 3850 3851@media screen and (max-width: 586px) { 3852 3853#sfm-mob-navbar { 3854 3855display: none; 3856 3857height: 62px; 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