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  Middle school boys One Foot High Kick at the Northern Regional Traditional Games. Photo by Lyndsey Brollini. (Official Results) By Lyndsey Brollini​ Athletes from Juneau and four other communities, Hoonah, Anchorage, Unalakleet, and Kotzebue, competed in the Northern Regional Traditional Games held May 8-9. Last year’s Traditional Games occurred before the pandemic shut down the city, so this was the [...]

Emily Pastore with the original U-matic and Betacam tapes that Celebration 1982 were recorded on and the external hard drive where all the digitized footage is saved. Photo by Lyndsey Brollini. By Lyndsey Brollini Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) recently released all its video from Celebration 1982 onto YouTube, bringing the footage online for public access [...]

Cyril George at Sealaska Heritage recording stories in 2013. Photo by Christy Eriksen By Mikayla Mitchell “I want to thank you for everything you’ve done for pop. Some people will never be forgotten, and neither will you,” said Roberta Jack, daughter of the late Angoon Elder Cyril George, to Kathy Kolkhorst Ruddy over Zoom at [...]

  At Sealaska Heritage, we field a lot of questions from the public, researchers and the media about Northwest Coast cultures. This question was in the news recently. Question: What is your position on the petition to remove the Seward statue in Juneau? SHI President Rosita Worl, Ph.D.:  The call for the removal of the William H. Seward statue is [...]

Mara Sheakley-Early competing in the Two-Foot High Kick. ​Photo by Lyndsey Brollini, SHI Media Department.  (Official Results) By Lyndsey Brollini​ One hundred and forty-five athletes from across Alaska, Arizona, and Canada competed in the third annual Traditional Games in Juneau, held March 7-8 at Juneau Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé. Athletes from 14 communities lined up in the [...]

Practicing our values, from Baby Raven Reads By Tess Olympia SHI Education Program Manager Suddenly, we are home with our children, all day every day. How do we shift to a daily life of “social distancing” with infants and young children? Let’s take advantage of this time at home to practice our values.   Haa Latseení, [...]

By Alyssa Bader, Sealaska Heritage Postdoctoral Fellow As a National Science Foundation postdoctoral research fellow at Sealaska Heritage Institute, I will be working under the mentorship of Dr. Rosita Worl to explore the relationship between diet and the community of bacteria living in our mouths, called the oral microbiome. Through the oral microbiome, I hope to [...]

Naa Sháade Háni (Clan Leader): Stepping into the Office of Clan Leader In December 2019, after several months of deliberation, Sealaska Heritage's Council of Traditional Scholars developed this Clan Leaders statement to offer the minimal qualities of character and knowledge that they collectively see as necessary for clan leaders.  It does not propose to include all [...]

SHI Postdoctoral Fellow studying impact of Native food on people One of Alyssa Bader’s strongest connections to her culture has always been food. That she is studying how traditional Southeast Alaska Native foods impact health, then, is not too surprising. Dr. Bader, who is Tsimshian, received her doctorate in anthropology from the University of Illinois.  [...]