Native American Heritage Month

November is Native American Heritage Month. Find the calendar of events at https://sitkatribe.org/native-american-heritage-month-events-calendar/ The entire community is invited to attend these cultural & community events!

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Call for Entries

The Sheldon Jackson Museum is accepting applications for its Solo Artist Exhibition Series. This series supports the work and development of Alaska Native artists, highlighting new bodies of work by individual artists. The call for submissions opens September 30, 2024 and closes November 15, 2024 on CaFÉ, callforentry.org. Enter the title “Sheldon Jackson Museum Solo…

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Art on the Wall at Xóots

Here is “Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Xóots Elementary School Mural: The “Brown Bear” logo is affectionately called “Buddy” and was designed by Charlie Skultka (who also helped collaborate on the initial mural concept). Courtney Lecrone designed the mural and “worked through making the mural sunrise/sunset amazing!!” Courtney, who is 28, was born…

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Evening at Egan Lectures

Join us for “Evening at Egan” – the annual UAS lecture series held each fall which welcomes the Juneau community to engage with leading scholars and experts as they delve into diverse topics, from the role of art in society to climate change, sparking thought-provoking conversations. Lectures will be in-person and also livestreamed from the…

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Denali Taniilux̂ McGlashan

The October 2024 Artist-in-Residence at the museum is Denali Taniilux̂ McGlashan, Unangax painter (Oct. 3-Oct. 24). October marks the beginning of museum Winter Hours:   Wed – Sat from 10am – 4pm, (Tuesdays by appt). McGlashan will be at the museum through Oct. 24 & available to chat with the public about her cultural & creative…

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Cruise Boom Film Now on PBS

Nestled between glacial mountains and an island-studded sea, Sitka, Alaska is home of the Lingit Aani (Tlingit) and a large small boat family fishery. In the face of a surge in global tourism, “Cruise Boom” follows residents grappling with benefits, impacts and what they can control, raising questions about who beneftis from tourism, how much…

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Filming Artist Delores Churchill

Ten years ago, Artchange, Inc. finished the film “Tracing Roots” with the amazing #DeloresChurchill. Our focus in that film was on Haida elder and master weaver Delores Churchill. “Tracing Roots” had an encore screening in Juneau Spring 2024 at the Gold Town Nickelodeon. A few weeks ago, Artchange, Inc. and 14milesalaska picked up the camera…

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Art Students Craft Xóots Piece

Students in Ms. Manewal’s Glass & Tile class and Advanced Formline students of Mr. Skultka’s collaborated to transform this red cedar brown bear into a work of art using glass and and tile. “Buddy” was originally carved on the SHS CNC router in 2018 during an open house. The bear will soon be located at…

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Online Dictionary: Three Languages

Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has launched a new online dictionary that allows users to search for words and phrases in Lingít (Tlingit language), X̱aad Kíl (Haida language), Shm’algyack (Tsimshian language) or English, and to browse words and phrases, and also to listen to heritage language speakers pronouncing the entries. You can hear a word pronounced…

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Celebration 2024 Design Winner

SHI announces winner of Celebration 2024 Art Contest. Five other entries were chosen for honorable mentions. An artist from Seattle has won Sealaska Heritage Institute’s (SHI) competition to visually represent this year’s Celebration, a huge, dance-and-culture festival held every even year in Juneau since 1982. The artist, G̱at X̱wéech (Nick Alan Foote), won with his…

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Xóots Elementary School

According to a March 8, 2024 article by KCAW’s Robert Woolsey, “Baranof Elementary School in Sitka has a new name. The Sitka School Board voted unanimously on Thursday (3-6-24) to make the change, culminating a lengthy discussion on a different-yet-related topic: The need to make cultural education a more immersive experience in Sitka for everyone.…

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Documenting Tlingit Gesture System

Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is launching a groundbreaking new program to document 100 gestures used in Tlingit communication identified nearly 40 years ago, to recover other gestures still known and used by Tlingit elders, and to investigate whether similar structures existed for Haida and Tsimshian languages. Documenting the practice, known as the Tlingit Gesture System…

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Native Pollinators, Plants & Gardening

Here is some valuable information from Yakutat Tlingit Tribe about pollinators, plants & gardening! What are Pollinators? Pollination is the first step that creates new generations of plants, and is the fertilization of a plant’s female organs. Pollinators are the agents which facilitate fertilization, moving pollen to the ovule of another plant. Common pollinators include…

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Traditional Foods & Seasonal Harvest

Seasonal harvest allows us to be active, learn about local flora/fauna, and obtain nutrient dense foods. There are numerous wild foods that we can harvest over the course of the year. Lingít X’áax’i (Crabapple) Harvesting:  Crabapple trees have reddish-green, oblong berries in the fall. Look for trees or shrubs along the coast. Preparing:  Crabapples can…

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Sitka Tribe’s Kayaaní Commission

Sitka Tribe of Alaska’s Kayaaní Commission meets the Last Monday of Every Month from 6:30-8:30pm. All are welcome to attend, including STA Tribal citizens, plant knowledge holders, and anyone who wants to learn about harvesting plants. The August meeting will be Monday August 28th – Join the meeting in person at the STA office at 204…

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