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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ravens are so abundant that you might not see them unless you’re trying to, or unless one ... raven flies in the Spenard neighborhood of Anchorage with two black ravens. Tlingit stories ...

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 ...

According to Tlingit mythology ... But eventually they began to fight. Raven’s anger took hold and one day he hit Fog Woman on the shoulder with a piece of dried salmon. Fog Woman would not ...

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 ...