The Wooshkeetaan Kootéeyaa, meaning Wooshkeetaan totem pole, used to be located outside of Centennial Hall, but it was taken down in 2016 and put in a warehouse because of weather damage.
Lyndsey Brollini
Local News Reporter
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Masks will soon be optional in Juneau schools
The new policy is linked to Juneau’s community level and to CDC guidelines. If Juneau is at a medium or low risk level, masks will be optional.
Anchorage woman searches for family at former boarding school: ‘The rest of me is still in Pennsylvania’
Mary Kininnook’s family has been looking for her for decades.
Juneau police name the officer involved in a shooting in the Mendenhall Valley
Juneau resident Art Whitney said that he was on the phone, waiting for officers to arrive and wasn’t doing anything threatening. He said he gave his gun to his roommate before he went outside.
Haida artist TJ Young is carving a new totem pole that will go up in downtown Juneau
Most totem poles are carved on one side, but this one is carved on both. They’re calling it a 3-D totem pole, and it’s a lot more work.
Lingít activist recalls history of Indigenous women protecting the Tongass: ‘The momentum has only grown’
It has been 21 years since the 2001 Roadless Rule for the Tongass National Forest was first established. For the people involved in the battles between industry and subsistence, the tug-of-war over land use in the Tongass National Forest has been going on even longer.