Native Issues Forum-Wednesday, March 9th
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Tlingit and Haida Tribes of Alaska Secures Land Lease with City & Borough of Juneau
The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Central Council) announced it was awarded a 35-year land lease from the City and Borough of Juneau’s (CBJ) Docks and Harbors Department for the 4400 Thane Road property—former location of the Thane Ore House. Central Council will utilize and manage the property to […]
SHI to Sponsor Two Lectures in August
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.” […]
Tlingits-Alutiiq Word of the Week-July 19
Swaaciit; Kulusut – TlingitsSwaaciit imasinam akiani et’ut. – Tlingits are across the big ocean. The Tlingit Indians of southeast Alaska are the Alutiiq people’s eastern neighbors. Their homeland extends from Yakutat Bay at the entrance to the Alaska Panhandle to northern coastal British Columbia. Like the traditional Alutiiq societies, Tlingit communities were once large and […]