Alaska Native stories are a major part of this small-ship cruise tour between Ketchikan and Sitka. Alaskan Dream Cruises is the only Indigenous-owned cruise line in the United States, and guests of ...

Tlingit was spoken loud and proud in Carcross, Yukon last week. The community’s language camp took place at the Skookum Jim Camp. Students gathered for lessons taught by instructors from ...

As 79-year-old Kèyishí Bessie Cooley presented her master's degree thesis project at the Yukon Native Language Centre in Whitehorse—interweaving English and Tlingit as she spoke—it marked another ...

For Elder Kèyishí Bessie Cooley, obtaining her master's degree in Indigenous Languages and Linguistics from Simon Fraser University is more than just another milestone for her, it is also a tribute to ...

Big changes are on the horizon for a once small optional Tlingit language and culture program offered by the Juneau School District and Sealaska Heritage Institute. Each year for more than 20 ...

Mia, in collaboration with her Tlingit Language teacher and other language students, used KSTK studios to record, edit and produce her Mia’s Gift podcast. The Tlingit language is a Southeast Alaska ...

The renowned Tlingit American artist, Preston Singletary created more than 60 glassworks to illustrate the traditional story of the raven, above: White Raven (Dleit Yéil), 2018, and pairing them ...

A mother and daughter from Yukon have been studying hard to join a group that's shrunk to just a few hundred people worldwide — those who are fluent in the Tlingit language.

Tlingit is spoken throughout southeast Alaska and parts of northern B.C. and southern Yukon. According to the Endangered Languages Project, it is "critically endangered," with only about 200 native ...

To X̱’unei Lance Twitchell, this phrase from the Native language Lingít speaks to the connection between the language and the land where the Tlingit people have historically lived. In a March 16 class ...

The Tlingit built the fort, called Shís’gi Noow, which means sapling fort in the Tlingit language, in a strategic location at the mouth of the Indian River, adjacent to shallow tidelands “to ...

Tlingit fighters then fortified their territory against future Russian attacks by building a wooden fort they named Shís'gi Noow — "the sapling fort" in the Tlingit language — at a strategic ...