In the nineteenth century, the memorial potlatch was central to the sociocultural order of the Tlingit Indians of southeastern Alaska. While much of that order has changed significantly during the ...

THE introduction to the twenty-sixth annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1904–5), 1908, by the chief of the Bureau, Prof. W. H. Holmes, indicates that the staff are zealously carrying ...

Alaska’s largest tribal government marked its return after two years to the largest statewide Alaska Native organization on Tuesday, with the tribal president declaring “unity is our greatest strength ...

Each year, Sitka marks Alaska Day with a reenactment of the Oct. 18, 1867, ceremony that transferred Alaska from Russia to the United States. Last year, however, events took a turn. A woman, Paulette ...

In the Tlingit idiom, Elaine Elizabeth Abraham "walked into the woods" early Monday morning. The much-accomplished Tlingit woman from Yakutat died around 1:30 a.m. at the Alaska Native Medical Center ...

The battle was a pivotal moment in Tlingit history — and in Russia's colonization of the Americas. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska announced on Tuesday that it is rejoining the Alaska Federation of Natives. The move comes almost exactly two years after the tribe ...

This article develops a formal semantic and syntactic analysis of distributive numerals in Tlingit, a highly endangered language of Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon. Such numerals enforce a ...

A dispute between the University of Pennsylvania and a Tlingit Indian community in Hoonah, Alaska, over custody of artifacts in Penn’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology may be headed to federal ...

How ironic that a Massachusetts theological school has not returned a sacred fishhook to the Tlingit Indians of Southeast Alaska! Christian missionaries took the object from the Tlingit in the 19th ...

The U.S. Postal Service plans to issue a stamp designed by Native American Rico Worl. It would become the first stamp designed by a member of the Tlingit tribe. In Alaska's Tlingit tribe, there's one ...

SHELTON — Norman Johnson, a Tlingit Indian from Alaska, woke last Thursday morning to find a cross with three nooses tied to it in front of his home. “CURSE the Johnson Family” and Norman Johnson’s ...