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 ...

A three-year language mentorship program beginning in Southeast Alaska in August hopes to help revitalize the Tlingit language, classified as on the edge of extinction, by pairing fluent elders with ...

In the last several years, there has been a steady stream of Indigenous fantasy novels on the mainstream book market. One of these is “The Raven and Eagle” trilogy by Caskey Russell, who takes readers ...

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 : ...

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 ...

X‘unei Lance Twitchell stood at a podium in Los Angeles in mid-March doing something he’d never imagined would be possible. Speaking his native Tlingit language, Twitchell accepted an Emmy Award for ...

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 ...