Alaska Native Arts & Culture

Alaska Airlines use of the phrase “Meet our Eskimo” in its rebranding campaign has sparked a controversy and new conversation about what “Eskimo” means to Alaska Natives.

Alaskans may know Iñupiaq artist Holly Nordlum as a graphic designer, jewelry maker and creator of art that provokes conversations about the painful history of organized religion’s impacts on Native people.

The Portland Art Museum in Oregon has commissioned a Tlingit Chilkat robe from a Juneau weaver–adding a fourth generation to a lineage of weaving students and teachers.

The National Park Service is proposing a regulatory change that would allow subsistence users to collect animal parts and plants for use in arts and crafts.

Set in a fictional Tlingit village in the late 19th century, “Our Voices Will Be Heard” is Vera Starbard’s semi-autobiographical story of a mother whose daughter is sexually abused by a relative.

Starring will continue for the next several days. The holiday season runs through the Orthodox New Year on January 14th.