Six traditional canoes have retraced a historic Tsimshian route from British Columbia’s northern coast to southern Southeast Alaska.
Alaska Native Arts & Culture
Groundbreaking held for Walter Soboleff Center
Building will fill vacant lot and be devoted to the research and study of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures
Contractor hired for Walter Soboleff Center
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.
Jones, Brown reappointed to state boards
Governor Sean Parnell has reappointed two Juneau residents to state boards. Zachary Jones will continue serving on the State Historical Records Advisory Board; and Ben Brown has been reappointed to the Alaska State Council on the Arts.
With representation on decline, voting rights decision worries Native districts
Under federal law, Alaska was required to have five House and three Senate districts with large Native populations. With the Supreme Court striking down part of the Voting Rights Act, that requirement is gone.
Alaska Native canoe paddles lost in storm return home
Remember the Southeast Alaska Native paddlers who lost their canoes on a recent journey through Southeast? Some of the lost paddles had a homecoming of sorts a few weeks ago in Yakutat.