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MULTI-YEAR WEAVING APPRENTICESHIP TO CULMINATE IN INTENSIVE, DANCING OF THE ROBES AT SHI Project part of effort to increase number of Chilkat weavers Jan. 11, 2023 (About Lily Hope) (About Chilkat Weaving) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a Chilkat weaving intensive and a dancing-of-the-robes ceremony as the culmination of a two-year project envisioned and [...]

SEALASKA HERITAGE DIGITIZES, POSTS CELEBRATION 1996 Video series shows eighth Celebration, more years to follow Jan. 9, 2023 (About Celebration) (Watch) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has digitized and posted online video of Celebration 1996. Celebration is a dance-and-culture festival first held by SHI in 1982 that has grown into the world’s largest gathering of the Tlingit, Haida [...]

SHI EXPANDS SUPPORT FOR NATIVE LANGUAGE STUDY AND INSTRUCTION AT UAS Scholarship available for the 2023 spring semester Dec. 21, 2022 (Apply) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will fund University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) students interested in taking courses in X̱aad Kíl, Sm'algyax and Lingít through a new initiative, Our Ancestors' Echoes. Through the program SHI will [...]

SHI RELEASES FEATURE-LENGTH FILM ON HISTORY, ORIGIN OF CELEBRATION Program explores the origins of Celebration to today Dec. 21, 2022 (Watch) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has released a feature-length film on the history and origin of Celebration since its inception in 1982. The film, 40 Years of Celebration — A Biennial Festival of Tlingit, Haida, [...]

SHI TO SPONSOR LECTURE ON NATIVE LEADERS’ HALL OF FAME Free event to be offered in-person, virtually Dec. 16, 2022 (About the Lecturer) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a free lecture next week on the activism of Native leaders during the United States occupation of the ancient homeland of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian [...]

SHI ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR COLLEGE, VOC-TECH SEALASKA SCHOLARSHIPS  Institute offering cash incentive to early birds Dec. 15, 2022 (Apply) The enrollment period for Sealaska scholarship applications is open for the 2023-2024 school year. The deadline to apply is March 1, 2023. However, Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is offering a $50 incentive to those who complete [...]

YAKUTAT TRIBE, SHI AND SEALASKA URGING CESSATION OF LOGGING OF HISTORIC SITE Area is ancient homeland of the Kwaashk’iḵwáan clan Dec. 15, 2022 (Oral Tradition on Humpback Creek) (Archaeological Interpretation) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI), Sealaska Corporation and the Yakutat Tlingit Tribe are calling on Yakutat’s Native village corporation to stop logging an area that is a [...]

SHI OFFERING MUSEUM, ART INTERNSHIPS IN ALASKA, NEW MEXICO Candidates will get hands-on experience in museum sciences and art practices Dec. 14, 2022 (Apply Museum) (Apply Art) (Flyer Museum) (Flyer Art) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is recruiting undergraduate and graduate students for paid museum and art internships in partnership with the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) and [...]

SHI TO SPONSOR LECTURE BY ARCHAEOLOGIST DETAILING DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT STONE FISH WEIR Free event to be offered in-person, virtually Dec. 8, 2022 (Video of Weir) (Research Team) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a lecture on Tuesday to delve more deeply into the discovery of an ancient, submerged stone weir, which was found near [...]