Federal investigators have found that an East Coast school which had planned to sell Native objects in its possession is subject to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and is not in compliance with the law. The U.S. Department of the Interior has given the Andover Newton Theological School (ANTS) of Massachusetts […]
Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is bringing Washington-based Tsimshian master artist David A. Boxley to Juneau to teach formline design to inmates at the local prison. Boxley, an advanced Tsimshian language student, also will teach language mini-immersion classes in the evenings at the Walter Soboleff Building. A masterpiece by Boxley was unveiled during the grand opening […]
Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor two free lectures during the first two weeks of August. On Friday, Aug. 7, Michael Taylor, a Ph.D. candidate in English and First Nations Studies at the University of British Columbia, will present “Onward Christian Soldiers: Situating the Writings of the Alaska Native Brotherhood/Sisterhood within a Longstanding Indigenous Literary Tradition.” […]
Applications are now available for Sealaska Heritage Institute’s annual Latseen Leadership Academy program. This year’s academy for high school students will be held July 6-19 at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau. The academy will serve 40 high school students from Angoon, Prince of Wales, Klukwan and Juneau. Travel scholarships are available. Yées Sháade […]