Big changes are on the horizon for a once small optional Tlingit language and culture program offered by the Juneau School District and Sealaska Heritage Institute. Each year for more than 20 years, ...

Whether you think artificial intelligence is the future or the destruction of mankind, AI is making global headlines as its development and investments continue to boom — and its reach isn’t as far ...

X’unei Lance Twitchell teaches an advanced Tlingít course at University of Alaska Southeast on April 29, 2024. (Photo by Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon) Before Monday evening’s advanced Tlingít ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hometown: I am Tlingit Indian from Southeast Alaska. I belong to the Dakl'aweidi Clan (killer whale). I was born and raised in ...

Vol. 1. 1st plenary session -- Vol. 2. 2nd plenary session -- Vol. 3. The reincarnation of stories -- Vol. 4. Retelling our stories: using writing as resistance to inaccurate historical perspectives - ...

Introduction / Sergei Kan -- Part 1. Our Elders and Teachers. 1. Shotridge in Philadelphia : representing Native Alaskan peoples to East Coast audiences / Robert W. Preucel ; 2. Louis Shotridge : ...

What does it mean to lose your land, your language, and your heritage? For Alaska Natives, these are existential threats. On a trip to Southeast Alaska, I traveled to one village that is finding new ...

Klukwan is home to about 100 people, most of them from the Tlingit tribe. Once their land reached to the mountains. Today, the village is... A Native Village In Alaska Where The Past Is Key To The ...

Growing up in Juneau, Alaska, Tlingit artist James Johnson uses his art as a means to connect with his cultural heritage, while combating the effects of colonization. As a self-taught artist, he is ...