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Anooshi Lingit Aanà KaÂ: Russians in Tlingit America: Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer, also with Lydia Black This major book on historic battles between the Russians and Tlingits in the early 19th century is the 4th volume in the award-winning series, Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, edited by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer….
Alaska Native elders remember wartime invasion, relocation, and land reclamation The US government justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense against Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally served to advance colonial expansion in relation to the geographically and culturally diverse Indigenous communities affected. Offering important Alaska Native experiences…
The Alaskan Haida Phrasebook was compiled over a four-year period as part of Sealaska Heritage s ongoing focus on indigenous language revitalization. The more than 4,000 sentences in this book cover some of the most common topics of Haida conversation, such as food, family, weather, health, traveling, fishing, working, music, and many others. It was…
A shaman had predicted that Howard Rock would become a great man. He was born in 1911 in Point Hope, an Inupiat village in northwest Alaska where the people had lived off the land and sea for centuries. Instead of following tradition, however, Howard elected to go to a government boarding school and became a…
This set combines a systematic introduction to Tlingit grammar with phrases and conversations for everyday use. Moving from the easiest and advancing to more complex, the book teaches students how to make new sentences of their own. The Fourth Edition came with CD set. Now audio is made available on our website, so students can…
In Being and Place among the Tlingit, anthropologist Thomas F. Thornton examines the concept of place in the language, social structure, economy, and ritual of southeast Alaska s Tlingit Indians. Place signifies not only a specific geographical location but also reveals the ways in which individuals and social groups define themselves. The notion of place…
From the giant cedar of the rainforest came a wealth of raw materials vital to the way of life, art and culture of the early First Nations people of the Northwest Coast. All parts of the cedar tree had many uses. From the wood, skilled men made ocean-going canoes, massive post-and- beam houses, monumental carved…
Celebration 2000: Restoring Balance Through Culture features 23 major contributions by traditional and academic scholars on Southeast Alaska topics, such as Alaska history, language, culture, arts, and literature, and includes essays by 13 Native authors. Celebration 2000 can be used as a textbook, a reference, or just for pleasurable reading. Edited by Susan W. Fair…
Celebration: Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian Dancing on the Land features the work of noted Alaska photographer Bill Hess and includes images from the first Celebrations to present-day festivals. It is both an introduction to Native cultures and a keepsake for the people who have participated in Celebration.
In this tender picture book, Sara Florence Davidson transports readers to the excitement of a potlatch in Hydaburg, Alaska—her last memory of dancing with her late brother. It feels like my brother and I have always known how to sing the songs and dance the dances of our Haida ancestors. Unlike our father, we were born after the…
Sealaska Heritage Institute s Dictionary of Alaskan Haida is the product of years of documentation of the Haida language with assistance from fluent Elders. It was edited by Dr. Jordan Lachler. (Download the .pdf)
This is a first edition compiled by Donna May Roberts for the Sealaska Heritage Institute. While this dictionary does not contain all words in the Shm algyack language, it covers the majority of common vocabulary, and as such will be of great vallue to beginning and intermediate students of the language. This is a spiral…
A true story for young teens on Alaska Civil Right hero Elizabeth Peratrovich Fighter In Velvet Gloves. Alaskans of all ages, Native and non-Native, stood shoulder to shoulder, some on chairs. It was only the second time in the history of America that a bill to end discrimination had come up for an official vote,…
Identity and understanding are fluid and plural, yet the histories of violence and oppression influence and shape everything in the world because the past, present, and future exist in the same plane and at the same time. G̱agaan X̱ʼusyee Below the Foot of the Sun is a unique collection of Indigenous cultural work and LingÃt…
This introduction to Tlingit social and political history features the biographies and life histories of more than 50 men and women, most born between 1880 and 1910, and includes a special section on the founders of the Alaska Native Brotherhood (ANB). The lives depicted in this volume show how individual Native people both shaped and…
Haa Shuka, Our Ancestors: Tlingit Oral Narratives features eleven classic stories by 13 elders, including Naatsilanei (the origin of the killer whale), The Strong Man, The Woman Who Married the Bear, Kaats (The Man Who Married the Bear), and two stories about the coming of the white man. Edited by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard…
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