Raven is white, one marker of his supernatural status. Tlingit scholar and professor Maria Williams wrote in her children’s book “How Raven Stole the Sun (Tales of the People)” that Raven ...

Tlingit stories ... become the best-known legend in Southeast Alaska. The story begins in 1900, when Colp, then 19 years old, was living in a shack with three other prospectors in the village of ...

Reluctantly, McKenna accepts the role of chosen one. With the amulet and after the rigors of the ritual, she takes on the spirit and powers of the raven, the good forces in the battle against evil ...

THE STORY OF Raven releasing, or “stealing,” the daylight is one of the most iconic stories of the Tlingit People of Southeast Alaska. The Tlingit name for Raven is Yéil. Many people know the ...

Tlingit art depicting Raven stealing the sun. Credit: Israel Shotridge Hayes became intrigued by the story when she worked as a summer naturalist for the Alaska State Ferry, one of the first jobs ...

A depiction of Raven freeing the sun, stars and moon will appear on U.S. Postal Service Forever stamps in the near future thanks to a Juneau-based Tlingit ... of climax in one of his heists.

The priest recalled one moment particularly vividly: The Denver museum officials, as they were discussing the raven screen, cited Hopi law for why they could keep the Tlingit object. (The Hopi ...

One would think a movie starring a "Baywatch ... McKenna awakens with paranormal "powers of the raven." Nora also revives, transformed by evil forces. After some resistance, McKenna gives in ...