Sealaska Supports Construction of the Walter Soboleff Center
The Sealaska board of directors authorized a $1 million contribution to Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) for the Walter Soboleff Center. SHI established a capital campaign committee to help raise the $20 million needed to construct the facility. The center will provide economic, educational and cultural benefits to the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people and the Southeast Alaska region.
The Walter Soboleff center Front St. Juneau Alaska
Rev. Dr. Walter A. Soboleff addresses Alaska GOP Convention
Rev. Dr. Walter A. Soboleff addresses the Alaska GOP Convention in Juneau, Alaska April 17, 2010.
Tsimshian carvers David A Boxley and David R Boxley Discuss Monumental House Front in Juneau
This presentation by master carver David A. Boxley and his son David R. Boxley was given prior to the unveiling of their monumental Tsimshian house front at SHI's Walter Soboleff Building in downtown Juneau, Alaska. The house front tells the Tsimshian story Am’ala: Wil Mangaa da Ha’lidzogat (Am’ala: He Who Holds up the Earth). At almost 40 feet wide by 15 feet high, it is thought to be the largest, carved-and-painted Tsimshian house front in the world. In the video, the Boxleys describe the house front and talk about the rules of formline, an art form shared by Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian people.
Sealaska Juneau Meeting 2018 | Candidates
Independent Candidate Speeches:
0:07 Edwell John, Jr.
5:40 Nicole Hallingstad
11:58 Karen Taug
Board Endorsed Nominees:
17:58 Tate London
22:21 Barbara Cadiente- Nelson
29:30 Albert Kookesh
36:02 Joe Nelson
42:53 Bill Thomas
Native Fashion Show, Celebration 2016
Sealaska Heritage Institute's inaugural Native Fashion Show was held during Celebration 2016, on June 10 in the clan house at the Walter Soboleff Building, The show featured contemporary fashions by nearly 20 designers from across the state representing numerous Alaska Native cultures.
Sealaska Meeting in Angoon 2012
Grandchildren of Angoon performing
Juneau marks 13th anniversary of 9/11
Produced by Casey Kelly/KTOO
Juneau residents marked the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a ceremony at Riverside Rotary Park.
2013 First Tree Ceremony
Sealaska Starts 2013 Timber Harvest Program with Ceremony. Sealaska's land management programs provide benefits to tribal member shareholders and vital economic stimulation to Southeast communities. On April 13, 2013 a First Tree ceremony, similar to Blessing of the Fleet, was held to start the 2013 timber program. The event was held on Prince of Wales Island near Big Salt creek, just north of Klawock.
Alaska State Museum and historic Juneau
The capital hosts the state museum and the history of Alaska
My Brother's Keeper Summitt
Sealaska is partnering with Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Central Council) on a White House Challenge called My Brother’s Keeper (MBK). The focus of MBK is to build and execute robust plans to ensure that all young - no matter who they are, where they come from, or the circumstances into which they are born—can achieve their full potential.
My Brother’s Keeper is focused on six milestones:
· Getting a Healthy Start and Entering School Ready to Learn
· Reading at Grade Level by Third Grade
· Graduating from High School Ready for College and Career
· Successfully Entering the Workforce
· Keeping Kids on Track and Giving Them Second Chances
Central Council is one of two Alaska tribes to accept the White House Challenge. The other is Hoonah Indian Association.
The first step in accepting the challenge was to organize and hold a Local Action Summit. The summit took place on Friday November 7, 2014 in Juneau.
MBK Local Action Summit slideshow --
Tlingit Language & Literacy
#cele2014 - hoo haa!
Juneau, Alaska | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Juneau, Alaska
00:03:42 1 History
00:05:18 1.1 European encounters
00:06:14 1.2 Mining era
00:07:57 1.3 Establishment of Russian Orthodox Church
00:09:01 1.4 Development of mining
00:09:58 1.5 20th and 21st centuries
00:14:43 2 Geography
00:16:15 2.1 Adjacent boroughs and census areas
00:16:33 2.2 Border area
00:16:56 2.3 National protected areas
00:17:17 2.4 Climate
00:20:07 3 Demographics
00:23:28 4 Economy
00:27:02 5 Culture
00:28:33 6 Government
00:31:59 7 Education
00:32:08 7.1 Primary and secondary schools
00:32:42 7.2 Colleges and universities
00:33:21 8 Transportation
00:33:48 8.1 Sea
00:34:36 8.2 Air
00:36:07 8.3 Roads
00:36:47 8.3.1 Juneau Access Project
00:38:37 8.4 Public transportation
00:38:51 8.5 Walking, hiking, and biking
00:39:20 9 Infrastructure
00:39:29 9.1 Healthcare
00:40:00 10 Utilities
00:40:20 11 Media
00:40:28 11.1 Print
00:40:54 11.2 Radio
00:41:51 11.3 Television
00:42:36 12 Sister cities
00:43:08 13 See also
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The City and Borough of Juneau ( JOO-noh; Tlingit: Dzánti K'ihéeni [ˈtsántʰì kʼìˈhíːnì]), commonly known as Juneau, is the capital city of Alaska. It is a unified municipality on Gastineau Channel in the Alaskan panhandle, and it is the second largest city in the United States by area. Juneau has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of what was the District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U.S. Congress in 1900. The municipality unified on July 1, 1970, when the city of Juneau merged with the city of Douglas and the surrounding Greater Juneau Borough to form the current municipality, which is larger by area than both Rhode Island and Delaware.
Downtown Juneau (58°18′07″N 134°25′11″W) is nestled at the base of Mount Juneau and across the channel from Douglas Island. As of the 2010 census, the City and Borough had a population of 31,276. In 2014, the population estimate from the United States Census Bureau was 32,406, making it the second most populous city in Alaska after Anchorage. Fairbanks, however, is the state's second most populous metropolitan area, with roughly 100,000 residents. Juneau's daily population can increase by roughly 6,000 people from visiting cruise ships between the months of May and September.
The city is named after a gold prospector from Quebec, Joe Juneau, though the place was for a time called Rockwell and then Harrisburg (after Juneau's co-prospector, Richard Harris). The Tlingit name of the town is Dzántik'i Héeni (Base of the Flounder’s River, dzánti ‘flounder,’ –kʼi ‘base,’ héen ‘river’), and Auke Bay just north of Juneau proper is called Áak'w (Little lake, áa ‘lake,’ -kʼ ‘diminutive’) in Tlingit. The Taku River, just south of Juneau, was named after the cold t'aakh wind, which occasionally blows down from the mountains.
Juneau is unusual among U.S. capitals (except Honolulu, Hawaii) in that there are no roads connecting the city to the rest of Alaska or to the rest of North America (although ferry service is available for cars). The absence of a road network is due to the extremely rugged terrain surrounding the city. This in turn makes Juneau a de facto island city in terms of transportation, since all goods coming in and out must go by plane or boat, in spite of the city being on the Alaskan mainland. Downtown Juneau sits at sea level, with tides averaging 16 feet (5 m), below steep mountains about 3,500 feet (1,100 m) to 4,000 feet (1,200 m) high. Atop these mountains is the Juneau Icefield, a large ice mass from which about 30 glaciers flow; two of these, the Mendenhall Glacier and the Lemon Creek Glacier, are visible from the local road system. The Mendenhall glacier has been gradually retreating; its front face is declining in width and height.
The Alaska State Capitol in downtown Juneau was built as the Federal and Territorial Building in 1931. Prior to statehood, it housed federal government offices, the f ...
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Faces of Alaska: Rosita Worl - Full Program
Throughout her life, Dr. Rosita Worl has been an a fighter, an anthropologist and an activist.
She has made it her life's goal to preserve Southeast Alaska Native traditions, while building a collective future for Native people throughout the state.
Her early life was full of drama; She has been kidnapped, fled from an arranged marriage, and fought her way though high school.
But, Dr. Worl persevered through these hardships and those early memories have remained an important part of her history.
Alaska Public Media's Alexandra Gutierrez sat down with Rosita to talk about her life, and her hopes for the future.
SUSTAINABILITY SERIES PART 3 Movie
Part 3 of the Sustainability Series will discuss continuing community support through effective outreach. Additionally, we will cover building and strengthening political support utilizing MOA's and MOU's. Join us to learn how these strategies are interconnected.
Northwest Native Art: ArtTalk Symposium Session 1
The first session of the Burke Museum’s ArtTalk Symposium: Conversations on Northwest Native Art includes presentations on collaborative research and community-based scholarship, including:
1) Pat Courtney Gold, Fiber Artist, Independent Scholar and BHC Board Member presents Research in Museums and it’s Contribution to Native Communities
2) Nadia Jackinsky Sethi, PhD, Alutiiq Art Historian presents Remembering Heritage through the Arts in Alaska’s Communities
3) Kathryn Bunn, Marcuse, PhD, Art Historian, Kaleb Child, Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations educator, Coreen Child, Kwakiutl First Nation, and Tom Child, Kwakiutl First Nation Lands and Resource Manager present G̱a̱lg̱a̱poła (Working Together) – A Collaborative Reframing of Kwakiutl Film and Audio Recordings with Franz Boas, 1930.
This symposium was made possible by support from the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington. Recorded March 28, 2015 at the University of Washington’s Kane Hall.