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speakers were much fewer at the time, maybe 20. And studies have shown there are about 20 advanced Klingon speakers in the world as well. It depends on the popularity of the show at the time. If another season of “Star Trek: Discovery” comes out, you will have more people learning...
This word, popular among bootleggers during Prohibition, first came into use duringthe late 1860s, shortly after the land that is now Alaska was sold from Russia to the U.S. It is short for hoochinoo, a word used by the Tlingit (an indigenous people from Alaska) to refer to a fermen...
“calving,” these icefalls tend to be spectacular. Glacier Bay National Park shelters the world’s largest concentration of actively calving tidewater glaciers, which remain the park’s biggest draw. Stop and listen to the roar of icebergs being born, which the Tlingit people call “white ...
In fact, in such art it is often important that the creatures depicted are not too realistic, so that they can have a quality of strangeness about them that marks them out as supernatural beings. For this is no ordinary raven – Tlingit myth credits this creature with the creation (or ...
of a youth, also anonymous, as he launches an arrow toward the sun. According to “tradition,” if the elder loses sight of the arrow, the boy will have come of age—except, as Tlingit artist Jackson Polys notes in the wall label for the ...