The Tlingit people have traditionally occupied and used that part of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in the vicinity of Icy Bay and Disenchantment Bay, the Malaspina Glacier and Forelands, and the present day community of Yakutat, but have a deeper history that includes other ...
“When I decided that I wanted the chin tattoo because I found enough information to be confident in saying ‘We did do this.’ I would ask people from around here, and they’d be like, ‘I’d never heard of that.’ It just wasn’t something that was in people’s memories, I gue...
families. This is a difficult world. In Lingít we might say «yatʼéexʼi át áyá yá k̲usti» (this life is hard, frozen). As a people, we are faced with linguistic extinction. As a world, we are faced with choices of what to let go of, often by doing nothing ...
It is our Tlingit Natives who define us as people and it is the unique beauty of our ancestral lands that hold much of our history. The 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)is the largest land settlement made by the US Government in US history. In accordance with ANSCA, the...
It is our Tlingit Natives who define us as people and it is the unique beauty of our ancestral lands that hold much of our history. The 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)is the largest land settlement made by the US Government in US history. In accordance with ANSCA, the...
The article highlights the Tlingits people of Alaska, a truly maritime people whose society mirrors some aspects of the Polynesian lifestyle like their highly decorative canoes. Topics discussed include the history ...