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SHI RELEASES BABY RAVEN READS BOOK ABOUT CELEBRATION Biennial event depicted from a child’s point of viewMay 12, 2022 (Get the Book) (About Celebration) (About Baby Raven Reads) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has released a children’s book about the institute’s biennial dance-and-culture festival, Celebration, as seen from a young girl’s point of view. The book, Celebration, [...]

SHI DIGITIZES, POSTS ONLINE TREASURE TROVE OF RADIO RECORDINGS Collection includes interviews with Native people dating back 37 years May 10, 2022 (Browse the Collection) (About Southeast Native Radio) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has digitized and posted online a treasure trove of radio recordings that includes interviews with Native people across Southeast Alaska that date [...]

SHI ACCEPTING PROPOSALS FROM PRESENTERS FOR 2022 EDUCATION CONFERENCE May 2, 2022 (Flyer) (Application for Proposals) (Conference Website) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is accepting proposals from presenters for its fifth Culturally Responsive Education Conference, which is part of a larger effort to promote culturally responsive pedagogy in schools. SHI is soliciting proposals from educators to present [...]

SHI TO SPONSOR SEVEN SUMMER ACADEMIES FOR YOUTH IN 2022 Some academies open to students across the region April 15, 2022 (Apply) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor seven summer academies for students across the region who range in age from kindergarten to grade 12. The application period is now open for the following programming: [...]

SEALASKA HERITAGE TO SPONSOR LECTURE ON NATIVE IDENTITY, BLOOD QUANTUM Talk by SHI President Rosita Worl to be livestreamed April 7, 2022 Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a lecture next week on the varying methods Native people and governments define who is Indigenous and the ways those policies are increasingly affecting young people. In [...]

FIFTH ANNUAL 2022 TRADITIONAL GAMES TO KICK OFF THIS WEEKEND IN JUNEAU Public invited to attend, watch livestream March 30, 2022 (Register) (Games Website) (About Native Youth Olympics) (Sponsors and Partners) The fifth annual 2022 Traditional Games will kick off this weekend in Juneau, marking the first time in two years the event will open [...]

SHI TO PARTNER WITH RESEARCHERS, TAP ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO DOCUMENT UNDERWATER CAVES IN REGION Robot, teams to seek evidence of early human occupation March 2, 2022 (Research Team) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is partnering with a team of researchers and a firm that specializes in artificial intelligence to explore ancient, submerged caves in southern Southeast Alaska [...]

2022 TRADITIONAL GAMES PLANNED IN JUNEAU, REGISTRATION OPEN Games to be livestreamed Feb. 1, 2022 (Register) (Games Website) (About Native Youth Olympics) (Sponsors and Partners) The 2022 Traditional Games will be held in Juneau in April with teams from across Alaska, and the registration for athletes ages 11 and older is now available online. The [...]

SHI ANNOUNCES WINNER OF CELEBRATION 2022 ART CONTEST Three other entries also chosen to visually represent programs  Dec. 28, 2021 A Haida and Tlingit artist from Georgia has won Sealaska Heritage Institute’s (SHI) first-ever competition to visually represent Celebration, a huge, dance-and-culture festival held every even year in Juneau since 1982. The artist, Kimberly Fulton [...]