Haa Tuwaanagu Yis, Woo.Cheen | For Healing Our Spirit, Together
Tlingit and Haida and others join in solidarity to support communities in need due to the ferry crisis. A town hall meeting was organized by the Sheet’ka’ Alaska Native Brotherhood and Alaska Native Sisterhood (ANB/ANS) camps to discuss ferry system
February 13, 2020: (9) Nick ‘Iligutchiak’ Hanson, aka The Eskimo Ninja, spoke to the entire Sitka High student body, sharing his positive message of overcoming adversity and loss.
February 3, 2020: The Sitka Decolonization group has its biggest meeting yet (21 people) and teach-in on the elements of White Supremacy Culture (maybe a first in Sitka’s history.)
Renaming Baranof Elementary School is submitted to the school district’s Leave Your Footprint site. In a healthy community public places, spaces, and buildings are welcoming and inclusive for everyone. In the 1940s the Sitka School District decided that the name
2020: Youth Advocates of Sitka starts a new teen club to celebrate Native culture.