Alaska Native Arts & Culture

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

The program is free, but limited to 15 participants age 8 and older. It’s geared toward families, and elementary and middle school students.

Bob Loescher was Sealaska’s CEO from 1997 to 2001. He headed up the Tlingit-Haida Central Council’s housing and electrical authorities and was a subsistence-rights activist.

“It was unreal. I remember standing in front of my print while people were approaching and talking to me, and I was just kind of like outside of my body watching myself, like, ‘Is this really happening?’”

Curators promise broad, honest representations of Alaska Native history and culture in new Juneau museum.

Juneau theater artist Frank Henry Kaash Katasse won a short play competition Sunday. The main characters in “Reeling” are two female cousins who lose the uncle who raised them.