Our Tlingit people reside in Southeast Alaska and Canada. We have existed in Alaska for about 15,000 years, or approximately 750 family generations. Our Tlingit traditions have been the cornerstone of ...

The Sealaska Heritage Institute unveiled its newest exhibit, War and Peace, Friday for Gallery Walk. “The Tlingit word for war was also the Tlingit word for law,” said Chuck Smythe, the history and ...

WRANGELL — As voices became hushed and the crowd waited for the ceremony to begin, a toddler mumbled an inaudible question to their mother. Amid a sea of people packed into Wrangell’s Nolan Center, ...

Like many other indigenous languages, Tlingit is in survival mode. Revitalizing the language was the focus of this year’s Tlingit Tribes and Clans Conference held in Juneau last week. A Juneau ...

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 - ...

The Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska no longer practice shamanism, but elements of it still exist in their culture today. That’s according to Anthropologist and Sealaska Heritage Institute President ...

Over 200 years ago, the Tlingit clan clashed with Russians, battling over a slice of land that now falls within the Sitka National Historical Park. Since then, the exact location of a fort that served ...

Researchers from Cornell University and the National Park Service have pinpointed and confirmed the location of the remnants of a wooden fort in Alaska—the Tlingit people's last physical bulwark ...

Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions grew so dire in the following months that ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A tribal house years in the making will be dedicated on the shores of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve on Thursday, a physical acknowledgment that the area known for its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tlingit dancers with the Kuteeyaa dance group from the Pacific Northwest joined more than 1,800 dancers in the Grand Entrance of ...

History books describe the Battle of Sitka that took place in 1804 as the last major battle between Russians and Alaskan Natives, the Tinglit nation, initiated in response to the destruction of a ...