Haa Tuwaanagu Yis, Woo.Cheen | For Healing Our Spirit, Together
The Sealaska Heritage Institute Youtube channel has several playlists for local languages including Lingít. This video series is a language resource for learners of the Tlingit language Lingít and will feature Lance X̱’unei Twitchell as well as people on various
These words of thanks, and more language revitalization resources are available from the Sealaska Heritage Institute Youtube channel!
February 2020: (8) A land acknowledgement is given before a Rotary Club meeting, and shared later in a follow-up email. A first in Sitka! A land acknowledgment is a respectful and accurate way to start a gathering and it shows
February 16, 2020: (10) ANB hosted a celebration of civil rights leader Elizabeth Peratrovich, with speakers, a shared meal and Native dance groups.
February 13, 2020: (11) Thank you, Sitka Sentinel, for celebrating Indigenous cultures and people! Modern, accurate and honoring images of Indigenous people in the media are not common. The Sentinel and all media outlets that work to change this deserve
June 29, 2020: (34) Outer Coast is offers the first of it’s FREE Tlingit Language Massive Open Online Course!
January 2020: The City Assembly unanimously voted to get a new city seal. The existing seal was created In 1971 and feature a cannon that is pointed at the location of the Tlingit fort that was actually shelled by
June 2020: (30) AC Lakeside grocery store is posting pandemic information in Tagalog, Tlingit and English. Colonized communities feature one language and one strategy – assimilate. We thank you, Lakeside for your effort to change this!
June 19, 2020: (35) Around 200 Sitkans cross the Harbor Drive and Lincoln Street intersection as part of a commemoration of the day that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were informed that the Civil War had ended and that they
March 7, 2020: (18) After a land acknowledgement, the dancing started at the Filipino celebration at Keet. Thanks to Kari Sagel, Rebecca Himschoot and all the teachers and staff at Keet and those in attendance. Decolonized communities celebrate people and