Alaska Native Arts & Culture

The tribe’s main reason for buying the inn is for the Hoonah Lingít to have a physical presence in their homelands once again.

The song titles grab your attention, but guitarist Jacob Tix̂lax̂ Stepetin says the point is to create an opportunity to talk about Indigenous issues.

The 20-foot-long sculpture was made by Lingít artist Robert Mills last year during the pandemic

The Molly of Denali project is just one effort of Doyon Foundation’s language revitalization program, which works to preserve the ancestral languages of the Doyon region.

Zachary James of the Haines Sheldon Museum says the recovered images are important for local Lingít artists to study the art form.

Helen Dick, a Dena’ina elder, learned to make birch bark baskets from her grandmother. Now, she’s teaching others to make them, too.