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, ...

I was afraid. I sat down in the small chair, my knees bent upward. I set a few stuffed animals, a set of color cards, and a cheat sheet on the round table in front of me. I cleared my throat. Four ...

JUNEAU — The Tlingit language is still changing, as new words are coined for the modern, technological age. The Capital City Weekly reports that newly coined words need to be spread and catch on to be ...

A fish doesn’t jump in Tlingit, the native language of indigenous people of Southeast Alaska. It performs a feat no word in English can adequately express. The verb in Tlingit captures the instant ...

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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 : ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Tlingit language is still changing, as new words are coined for the modern, technological age. The Capital City Weekly reports that newly coined words need to be spread and ...