tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17494878553039102342024-03-12T22:45:43.914-08:00SHI Library, Archives, & Collections ProgramThis webpage is operated by the Sealaska Heritage Institute’s (SHI) Archivist and Collection Manager and seeks to open a scholarly dialogue on Southeast Alaska Native history and heritage. Located in Juneau, Alaska, SHI seeks to collect and preserve materials that document the history, culture, heritage, and language of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian people and to make these materials available to the public for educational purposes.SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-4162280256098248552014-06-04T08:49:00.002-08:002014-06-04T08:49:17.330-08:00Guardians of Culture and Lifeways International Awards Announcement<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4; line-height: 15.0pt; text-align: center;">
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OK, June 3, 2014-</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background: #F4F4F4; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></span><span style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The
Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) today announced
the winners of its 2014 Guardians of Culture and Lifeways International
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<strong><span style="background: #F4F4F4; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Archives Institutional Excellence,</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background: #F4F4F4; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></span><span style="background: #F4F4F4; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">which recognizes
indigenous archival organizations that demonstrate a significant commitment to
the preservation and use of documentary heritage, is awarded to the Sealaska
Heritage Institute (SHI) Library, Archives, and Collections Program, SHI
President Dr. Rosita Worl, Archivist and Collections Manager Zachary Jones,
staff, interns, language consultants, and the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian
people of Southeast Alaska served by the Sealaska Heritage Institute. The
development of the SHI Library, Archives, and Collections Program has followed
a careful and deliberate path from a site-based repository to a priceless
resource of rare books, photographs, recordings, and manuscripts accessible
online from anywhere in the world. Creating partnerships with local, national,
and international organizations, SHI has ensured that collections donated to
the archive encompassing Tlingit oral histories, Alaska Native Brotherhood have
been processed and made accessible employing the highest professional
standards. Exemplary is the current project to reveal the hidden treasures in
their Tlingit language recordings by migrating cassette tapes to digital format
and employing native speakers who listen and record metadata about the oral
history and traditional ecological knowledge contained therein. SHI Archivist
Zachary Jones serves on the Alaska State Historical Records Advisory Board and
enthusiastically offers his expertise as a consultant and mentor to Southeast
Alaska tribal organizations and many others far afield that are just beginning
their journey to uncover hidden treasures in their own collections<strong>.</strong></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #F4F4F4; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Established in 2007, the awards program identifies and
recognizes organizations and individuals who serve as outstanding examples of
how indigenous archives, libraries, and museums contribute to the vitality and
cultural sovereignty of Native nations. Eight award recipients will be honored
at a luncheon ceremony on Tuesday, June 10, opening day of the International
Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums that is taking place
at the Renaissance Palm Springs, Palm Springs California that is located on the
Agua Caliente tribal lands. The award ceremony is open to conference attendees,
guests of the awardees, and credentialed media representatives.</span><strong><span style="background: #F4F4F4; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-74068462436441353662014-05-16T11:14:00.002-08:002014-05-16T11:15:18.346-08:00When Auction House Looks to Tlingit Art, the Sacred Goes on Sale<div class="wl-subheadline" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jacobs, Cultural Resource Specialist with Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, saw that a Tlingit hat would be on Sotheby’s New York auction block May 21. With not even a week until the auction, he and others with an interest in seeing the hat returned to its owners, thought to be the Kiks.ádi clan of Wrangell, are taking action.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">With several objects of Tlingit, Haida or Tsimshian origin featured in the Sotheby’s auction, it is important to understand why this hat has garnered the attention it has from people in the Tlingit community.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Hats are the most important object any clan can have,” Jacobs said.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">He brought up the Tlingit concept of Haa Shagoon, which is defined as recognizing the bonds between our ancestors, current generation and future generations, according to a glossary on the Sealaska Heritage Institute site.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“This hat represents the clan,” Sealaska Heritage Institute Director Rosita Worl said. “Sometimes this is hard for people to understand. They maybe understand it is sacred, it is sacred to us. But it embodies the spirit of our ancestors and ties us to our ancestors ... it ties present generations to ancestors and also to future generations. To who we are as a people.”</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">The hat also gives a voice to its clan, allowing a clan to speak in public and show respect to its counterparts in other clans. For example, the Kiks.ádi would use the hat in ceremonies paying respect to a recently deceased member of the Wolf clan.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“To not have a hat, as I can say from experience with my own clan, made it difficult to speak in public,” Jacobs said. “We had nothing to bring out to show our opposites.”</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jacobs flipped through photos during a Thursday interview, showing a recent Khoo.eéx, a potlatch, during which a man’s paternal aunts placed a recently repatriated marmot hat upon his head. The hat was used later as members of the clan paid respects to the recently deceased of their opposite clan.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“When they sit in a museum or on storage shelves, they are no different than a dead body; lying in a cabinet, they have no life in them. When we bring them out, they have life in them,” Jacobs said. “Until you see them in action, you really don’t realize how important they are when used in the context they were created for.”</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Preponderance of evidence</strong></span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Were this hat at a museum, getting it back would be simple. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act allows tribal organizations to petition a museum to have an object returned.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">What they would need to have the object returned, Alaska State Museum Curator of Collections Steve Henrikson said, is a preponderance of evidence — 51 percent.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jacobs said he is 99.9 percent sure the hat is of the Kiks.ádi clan, and Henrikson agreed that the evidence that exists supports this. But since it is being sold by a private collector, repatriation is not an option.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I think it’s a distinctive enough tradition that’s really identified with Kiks.ádi, I personally think that’s what’s going on with this particular hat,” Henrikson said.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“It could be there’s another clan that I haven’t heard of that also performs Aleut songs and dances, but I’d be kind of surprised.”</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">The hat is unlike most, with maybe only two or three like it in existence, speculates Henrikson. It is an Aleut-style hat, but carved from a single block of wood unlike the traditional Unangan bentwood hats, and with Tlingit painting and, Henrikson said, evidence of other traditional Tlingit elements like possible shell dangles or sea lion whiskers. This blend of traditions is attributed to the Kiks.ádi clan because of relationships developed between the Aleut people and Tlingit Kiks.ádi clan, which exists in Sitka and Wrangell.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Henrikson found a photo in the state museum’s historical collections that showed a similar hat at an event in Wrangell.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Russians brought Aleuts to Southeast Alaska, Worl said, and “in their presence, interrelationships and sometimes kinships were developed. This is a historical object that really reflects that history, that relationship between Aleut and Tlingit people.”</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Aleut people were also relocated to internment camps in Southeast Alaska during World War II.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jacobs consulted a friend, a carver and Northwest Coast art expert, who attributed the style to a carver out of Wrangell whose wife and children were Kiks.ádi, William Ukas.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“We are a clan that has a long and old history but, unfortunately, much of our At.oow (owned objects) has disappeared for various reasons. I can’t even really tell you why or how,” said Wrangell Kiks.ádi leader Richard Rinehart Jr. “As much as we can bring it back to our town for our use, ceremonial and cultural, we want to be able to do that.”</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">There is more Northwest Coast art on the East Coast than the West Coast, Henrikson said.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“There was a massive effort to collect on the Northwest Coast, around the country and the world collectors were looking for what they thought of as art,” Worl said. “We produced some very unique pieces, aesthetically.”</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Collectors came to Alaska in search of these objects, many of which were sacred, like this hat. Worl said many collectors were not ethical.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Some (objects) came from graves in Juneau. Some were purchased from individuals who had no right to sell them,” she said.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">While the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act doesn’t apply to private collectors, Tlingit law dictates that these sacred objects be returned.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Worl said such a large number of sacred objects are held by non-Native organizations or private collectors that Sealaska’s attempt to inventory them was given up when the count surpassed 50,000.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Because of the sacred nature of this kind of artifact, as well as the belief that many of them were taken — either outright stolen or because of the general power relationship between non-Native collectors and Alaska Natives — however it happened, it was an unfair situation,” Henrikson said, posing the question: “Should private collections and Sotheby’s be able to make huge sums of money on the sale of these things?”</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">What Henrikson sees as the best-case scenario for the Northwest Coast art market is that it receives treatment similar to art looted by Nazis from Jewish homes in World War II.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“There’s a big international movement to identify those pieces, whether in public collections or for sale at auctions,” Henrikson said. “There’s a really strong effort, with laws to back it up, to get those artworks back to the original owners or compensate them for them.”</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Why this hasn’t happened with Native American artworks and objects is something Henrikson can only speculate about.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Even if there were some legal way for tribal organizations to reclaim their objects, the problem might not be solved so simply. There’s always the underground market.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“A tremendous amount of buying and selling takes place through dealers and is not public at all,” Henrikson said. “Some people believe that if a procedure comes up, it would just force it to go underground.”</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>The worth of a sacred object</strong></span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Kiks.ádi clan hat on the Sotheby’s auction block is expected to go for $300,000 to $500,000. In 1993, when it was up for auction before, it went for about $20,000, Jacobs recalled.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">The best-case scenario for the Kiks.ádi clan is that the hat goes cheap — cheap enough that they can find a way to buy it.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">What is it really worth? Jacobs said that in the 1970s and ’80s, less-than-scrupulous collectors would offer money and to make exact copies of the hats, claiming their families wouldn’t know the difference.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“One man was offered quite a bit of money for a hat that he had, and an exact copy,” Jacobs said. “He told that dealer, ‘You know, that hat would look really nice and that money sounds really good. But a new hat? My uncles and grandfathers never stood in that.’”</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Buying an object like this Kiks.ádi clan hat is simple for a wealthy collector, but it’s much more difficult for a tribal organization with limited resources and, as in this case, limited time.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rinehart, Worl said, is writing a letter to Sotheby’s to ask them to not sell the hat and instead return it to its rightful owners — the Kiks.ádi clan.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“We know it’s a long shot,” Worl admitted. “Maybe we might get someone who just has this sense of ethics and morality, who would want to do the right thing, at least based on our (Tlingit) laws.”</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">The next-best scenario is that an individual or entity will buy the Kiks.ádi clan hat and donate it to the clan.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">The next-best after that is that an individual or entity with such funds assists in the purchase of the clan hat, allowing it to return to its rightful home.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Some of these scenarios have played out in the past, but they can’t be counted on.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Henrikson recalls when this hat was last at auction. He was new to his job and found out about the hat with little advance warning — similar to the timeline now.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“In our own budget we had about $50,000 a year to purchase things for the museum. I didn’t think that was enough,” he said. “We had little additional state funds and no time for a fundraising campaign. In the past we had been able to get something from the legislature to purchase fairly expensive items at auction.”</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">In the 1990s, Henrikson said, the Alaska State Legislature created a fund called the Heritage Endowment Fund to allow museums to accept donations and private money. It would act like the Alaska Permanent Fund, with the dividends available to invest in purchases like this Kiks.ádi hat.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The Legislature never put any money in that fund,” Henrikson said. “They weren’t able to at that time. ... I’m not sure what the balance is right now, but not really enough to generate much in the way of earnings.”</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">There was a time, Henrikson said, when the Kiks.ádi clan of Sitka could pool resources with the state of Alaska, Sealaska Heritage Institute and Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska to purchase a sacred object. The object becomes part of the Alaska State Museum collection but belongs to the clan and can be used by them when they need it.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rinehart spoke of a clan hat in the Wrangell Museum that the clan owns.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“There’s a wing in the museum just for clan hats,” Rinehart said. “They keep them safe, housed on display for people to see, and check them out for us whenever a clan leader wants to take them out and use them for ceremonial purposes.”</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">This particular hat has evaded organized efforts to return it, and Henrikson said these objects tend to go up in price by tens of thousands of dollars each time they reappear.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">With so little time but so much motivation to act now, stakeholders are moving quickly to do what they can to raise both awareness and — hopefully — enough money.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Back to grassroots</strong></span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">There’s little time to arrange funding.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Even if you have six months, it would be a tall order to raise sufficient funds,” Henrikson said.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">It may not be enough time for institutions to come up with funding, go to the Legislature, or make much progress with grassroots funding efforts on the Internet.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Since there’s no guarantee of one or a few major donors stepping up in such short time, the various people working together to obtain the hat are casting a wide net. They’re reaching out wherever they can, not just to those with coffers full of cash.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“It’s grassroots, a wish and a prayer,” Rinehart said. “We know certainly of some that could (donate a large amount) and we’re going to reach out to those people, but we wouldn’t want any one donor to do all of it — it’s too much for one. We’d like to see a number of donors.”</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rinehart said there’s no way of knowing what the hat will really go for — the estimated $300,000-$500,000 or closer to $20,000 — but he’s hoping it will go for less.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">It’s not a straightforward concept, hoping collectors might undervalue one’s cultural treasure, but it may be the best hope there is for the Wrangell Kiks.ádi clan.</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“They can put a price on it,” Jacobs said. “But to us it’s priceless.”</span></div>
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<span class="wl-startdate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">For more on the current attempt to return the Kiks.ádi clan hat to its home, visit the facebook page: facebook.com/events/786230188055258/</span></div>
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SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-79371103486853492492014-05-06T11:33:00.000-08:002014-05-06T11:33:04.433-08:00Southeast student awarded Ethel Montgomery Scholarship<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<i>Juneau Empire</i> - May 4, 2014</div>
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The Friends of the Alaska State Libraries, Archives and Museum has announced Alyssa R. Peterson of Kake as the recipient of a $2,000 Ethel Montgomery Scholarship. The scholarship will go toward her education at San Jose State University where she is working on a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science with an emphasis in archiving.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3xoz392lnuKOwxdlPQWM8axZjV02v3CSWE_qLRv1uTIVhYX8L3AofexTE3vaUqPY4nwtUXCYWCATT7Y_yxMrZKFihUKg1cs37uJ0A5gAz9kBv8g7nIEVnhJnqqsIqhLU8Kc8C3vf1lp-N/s1600/A+Peterson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3xoz392lnuKOwxdlPQWM8axZjV02v3CSWE_qLRv1uTIVhYX8L3AofexTE3vaUqPY4nwtUXCYWCATT7Y_yxMrZKFihUKg1cs37uJ0A5gAz9kBv8g7nIEVnhJnqqsIqhLU8Kc8C3vf1lp-N/s1600/A+Peterson.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a>Peterson received her bachelors degree in liberal arts with an emphasis in anthropology and Northwest Coast art from the University of Alaska Southeast. She has worked with the Sealaska Heritage Institute Archives. As a member of the Tlingit Deisheetaan clan, Peterson said, “It is my dream to put my skills to use in tribal archives i</div>
n Southeast Alaska to ensure that our cultural heritage is preserved for generations to come.”<br />
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The Ethel Montgomery Scholarship Fund was established in the 1990s to assist university-level Alaska Native students majoring in museum studies.</div>
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Applications for the 2014-2015 school year may be obtained by emailing Jackie Schoppert at <a href="mailto:kaageesaak@aol.com" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">kaageesaak@aol.com</a> or Majorie Menzi at<a href="mailto:marjoriemenzi@msn.com" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">marjoriemenzi@msn.com</a>.</div>
SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-5301609416291125722014-04-23T10:56:00.000-08:002014-04-23T11:00:31.167-08:00SHI Works With Organized Village of Kake on Archives<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFkkz4DvjX7O56zCBvm9biYdagETtxoJvESRsuqf3hxuOtnQ3e-atUJsi708EpIHcIgO-sU2MvQWurut6hj93On7YOwtS0Jq9Vb6aDrZhYLh8LPUnTONzN1kksTYpqm8PNhmN2kQ1_iIZl/s1600/Falen+Mills.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFkkz4DvjX7O56zCBvm9biYdagETtxoJvESRsuqf3hxuOtnQ3e-atUJsi708EpIHcIgO-sU2MvQWurut6hj93On7YOwtS0Jq9Vb6aDrZhYLh8LPUnTONzN1kksTYpqm8PNhmN2kQ1_iIZl/s1600/Falen+Mills.jpg" height="320" width="181" /></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
past week SHI’s Archivist & Collection Manager Zachary R. Jones traveled to
Kake to work with the Organized Village of Kake (OVK) and its Charles “Topsy”
Johnson Tribal Library & Archive. As part of an <a href="http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/partnership.html">SNAP</a> grant program
administered by the <a href="http://archives.alaska.gov/ashrab/ashrab.html">Alaska State Historical Records Advisory Board</a> (ASHRAB),
the OVK facilitated Jones’<span style="background: white;"> (a member of ASHRAB)
travel to Kake where he met with Dawn Jackson, OVK Operations & Planning
Director, Falen Mills, OVK Language/Archives Department, and as well as Alyssa
Peterson, a Kake community member who is nearing the completion of her Master’s
degree in library and archival science. Together they worked on the important
historical collections held by the OVK. From this venture portions of OVK’s
historical collections were surveyed, boxed, and preserved for future
generations. Established in 1947, the OVK is a federally recognized IRA tribal
government that works to serve the community of Kake, Alaska. The OVK, those working
for the tribal government, and community members of Kake are doing wonderful
and exemplary things in their community, such as using archival Tlingit
language recordings to assist in language and cultural education. The OVK is an
exemplary tribal government working to preserving its historical collections
for present and future generations. It was an honor for Jones to see some of
the excellent work individuals like Dawn, Falen, and Alyssa are doing in one of
Southeast Alaska’s village communities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sealaska Heritage Institute was founded in 1980
to promote cultural diversity and cross-cultural understanding. The institute
is governed by a Board of Trustees and guided by a Council of Traditional
Scholars. Its mission is to perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida, and
Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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continue to occur about Native American image in the United States and Canada.
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young child, or a K-12 educator, perhaps you have been concerned about how
Native American Indians/Alaska Natives are presented in some children’s books. Perhaps
you been concerned about the consequences of inadequate representation in some
these purportedly educational resources. If so, you may be interested to learn
about the American Indians in Children’s Literature (AICL) organization and the
resources it provides.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the AICL provides critical perspectives and analysis of indigenous peoples in
children's and young adult books, the school curriculum, popular culture, and
society. The AICL operates a user-friendly website that allows the public to
search for book reviews, learn about Native media, and more. For many, the AICL
offers an important resource toward helping our schools and communities improve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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diversity and cross-cultural understanding. The institute is governed by a
Board of Trustees and guided by a Council of Traditional Scholars. Its mission
is to perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures of
Southeast Alaska.</span></div>
SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-34546749369547662722014-03-06T08:07:00.003-09:002014-03-06T08:07:45.632-09:00Tináa Art Auction a big success<h1 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #414141; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans, serif; font-size: 30px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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The artwork on view at Saturday night’s Tináa Art Auction at Centennial Hall highlighted the vibrancy and range of what’s been happening recently in the world of Northwest Coast art, while paving the way for a project that will help carry that energy forward into the future.</div>
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Tináa, Sealaska Heritage Institute’s first-ever art auction, drew a sold-out, black-tie crowd of more than 300 people, who collectively raised more than $300,000 for the Walter Soboleff Center, currently under construction on Front Street downtown. The building, named for a highly influential Tlingit elder and spiritual leader who died in 2011 at age 102, will house an array of art programs, as well as performance and exhibit spaces and a retail shop.</div>
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Excitement about the new building, and for the quality of the work on display, was very much in evidence at Saturday night’s high-energy event, which combined aspects of a museum opening, a gourmet dinner, a runway fashion show and a high-end art auction. Auctioneer David Karp of Nome kept the tone playful and personal, calling to audience members by name as he shepherded the crowd through the 13 live auction items. A silent auction featured nearly 40 additional pieces, from jewelry to basketry to sculpture.</div>
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Many of the internationally celebrated artists who donated works to the auction were in attendance, and several took turns at the microphone to share their enthusiasm for the Soboleff Center and for the man himself. Among them were David Boxley, a Tsimshian carver whose bentwood chest was among the largest items in the live auction, and Haida artist Robert Davidson, who donated another major piece, a black and red painting called “Greatest Echo.” Another big-ticket item in the auction was a rare 14-foot spruce river canoe carved by Tlingit artist Fred Bemis of Yakutat, so light that it requires ballast when operated by only one person.</div>
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The live auction also featured work by Nicholas Galanin, Preston Singletary, Steve Brown, Chloe French, Louise Kadinger, Duane Bosch, TJ Young, Delores Churchill, David R. Boxley and Sonya Kelliher-Combs.</div>
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Prior to the auction, a runway show of innovative Northwest Coast fashion was presented to whistles and cheers from the audience. Among the items on view was a salmon skin dress created from 35 Kenai river salmon and a luxurious coat made from sea otter fur (sea otters have the densest fur of any animal, with up to 1 million hairs per square inch). Designers who participated in the fashion show were Janice Jackson, Kandi McGilton, Ricky Tagaban, Brenda Lee Asp, Joel Isaak, Marcus Gho, Shaadoo’tlaa.Gunaaxoo’Kwaan and Louise Kadinger.</div>
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The title of the event, Tináa, is a Tlingit word that refers to a traditional copper shield representing wealth and trade. In planning the auction, SHI drew on longterm research of the Sante Fe Indian Market, an annual event held since 1922 that draws more than 150,000 people to Sante Fe, N.M., every August.</div>
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A beaming Rosita Worl, addressing the crowd at the end of the evening, said she sometimes hears that Juneau is a divided community, but that the outpouring of support for the Soboleff building from so many individuals and businesses has been an overwhelmingly positive example of how we can work together for a common goal of creating a regional hub in Juneau for Northwest Coast art.</div>
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“We are going to make this the Northwest Coast art capital of the world,” Worl said.</div>
SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-32485008732694039782014-01-08T09:31:00.003-09:002014-01-08T09:31:22.197-09:00Alaska State Historical Records Advisory Board seeks to send professional archivists to communities<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPxGQxNgbU0svmeVdWAlUez-mmAHGwqZrs-y8bPKtT7SbBUhA3qG0AucAdFYut_dyhuiKimtsbLE_oLf2XsLMA9muOBAp1ZwJ80zFLZZV4B37dRu8vukBSGERbOLeVKLwGqaq92Q4ShIE_/s1600/Z+Jones+at+SHI.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPxGQxNgbU0svmeVdWAlUez-mmAHGwqZrs-y8bPKtT7SbBUhA3qG0AucAdFYut_dyhuiKimtsbLE_oLf2XsLMA9muOBAp1ZwJ80zFLZZV4B37dRu8vukBSGERbOLeVKLwGqaq92Q4ShIE_/s1600/Z+Jones+at+SHI.jpg" height="212" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">SHI’s archivist, Zach Jones, is participating in a state program to offer consulting services to organizations with archives. Applicants can request that the Alaska State Historical Records Advisory Board (ASHRAB) send a professional archiv</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">ist to their community to give two to three days of hands-on service. This includes help processing collections, training staff, preserving collections, helping with policy development, and offering a planning and preservation survey. No charge. SHI is hoping to serve Southeast Alaska tribal organizations. More: <a href="http://archives.alaska.gov/pdfs/ashrab/ConsultingArchivistsProgram01_06_2014.pdf" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://archives.alaska.gov/pdfs/ashrab/ConsultingArchivistsProgram01_06_2014.pdf</a></span>SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-84003616298401057562014-01-08T09:28:00.001-09:002014-01-08T09:28:32.496-09:00Emergence of rare Tlingit war helmet raises a chorus for homecoming<h4>
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Tribal leaders are hoping a rare Tlingit war helmet that sat mislabeled in museum archives in western Massachusetts for more than 100 years will be returned to Southeast Alaska now that the artifact, considered a sacred object, has been brought to light.</div>
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The helmet, <a href="http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20131218/rare-tlingit-war-helmet-discovered-massachusetts-museum-archives" style="border: 0px; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">uncovered this autumn</a> in the Springfield Science Museum archives, was put on display in late December. Records show that the object was accepted into the museum’s collections around the turn of the 20th century, spokesperson Matt Longhi said. The helmet was logged into museum archives simply, and incorrectly, as “Aleutian hat.”</div>
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But after scrutiny by curator of anthropology Dr. Ellen Savulis, and with coordination with the Alaska State Museum, the helmet was quickly identified as a rare Tlingit war helmet.</div>
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The helmet is one of less than 100 known in existence today, said Alaska State Museum curator of collections Steve Henrikson. It’s likely from the early to mid-1800s, and was intended for use in battle by Tlingit warriors. Only three or four of those helmets remain in Alaska today, Henrikson said.</div>
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In 2008, a similar helmet sold at auction for more than $2 million. But its monetary value is of little matter to either the museum or the Tlingit people.</div>
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Sealaska Heritage Institute vice chair Rosita Worl described the war helmet as an at.óowu -- meaning “an object that was owned by a clan and holds the Spirit of the Eagle. It embodies the spirit of our ancestors” who created and used the hat. Worl wrote in an email that “its emergence signifies that the ancestral spirits want and need to come home.”</div>
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“I would trust the Springfield Museum will understand that the sacred value of this hat lies in its return to its home,” Worl wrote.</div>
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The belief that the object is calling to be returned home is shared by other Tlingit people, as well. Leona Santiago, admiral for the yaanwhasshaans (women of the Kaagwaantaan clan), said she feels “it’s a really positive change in terms of our ancestors letting us know that they’re still here.”</div>
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The Springfield Science Museum has begun the repatriation notification process, sending letters to thirty Alaska tribal organizations notifying them of the helmet’s existence. The museum is also including a list of all items in their archives identified as being from Southeast Alaska, in case tribes want to make further repatriation claims -- a step beyond the federal mandate, Longhi said.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.ccthita.org/about/overview/index.html" style="border: 0px; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska</a> has already started the repatriation process on the helmet, President Edward Thomas confirmed on Tuesday. Founded in 1935, the Tlingit Haida Central Council is a federally recognized regional tribe in Southeast Alaska. Folks who are aware of the object's existence are excited about it, Thomas said.</div>
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Most objects are associated with a clan, not a moiety (either the Eagle or Raven moiety, in Tlingit-Haida lineage). Since the helmet appears to belongs to the Eagle moiety, “we want to be careful” not to offend any involved parties, and will take some broad discussions to determine where the helmet will end up if brought back to Alaska.</div>
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Henrikson said Tuesday that while the bird appears to depict a bald eagle, it could be some other bird or even a supernatural creature -- which would also affect the question of ownership.</div>
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For now, though, the Tlingit Haida Central Council is moving forward with the idea that the helmet belongs to the Eagle moiety and not an individual clan. No clans have yet come forward to claim the helmet as their own, Thomas said.</div>
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The council is also working with the Southeast Alaska Native Veterans Association to gather input on the future of the object, as it was once intended for battle.</div>
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“I would like to see it be used ceremoniously with the veterans group,” Thomas said, whose members are “so very interested and active” in advocating on behalf of veterans.</div>
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Thomas said he is confident that the object will be brought back to Alaska. He hopes it will be stored in the new Sealaska Heritage Institute building slated for construction in Juneau because it will offer climate-controlled conditions for the priceless artifact.</div>
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The object would be brought home under the auspices of the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/history/nagpra/FAQ/INDEX.HTM" style="border: 0px; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act</a> (NAGPRA), a federal law passed in 1990 which provides a process for museums and federal agencies to return certain cultural items.</div>
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The process can be daunting, however, especially for folks living in remote areas, short on time and resources.</div>
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The repatriation process is “intense,” said Dr. Bambi Krauss, president of the <a href="http://www.nathpo.org/aboutnathpo.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers</a> in Washington, D.C., a nonprofit organization of tribal government officials who implement federal and tribal preservation laws. Cases average around three years, but can take longer, she said.</div>
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“A lot of villages don’t have the resources to hire someone to go through the process, so it’s very frustrating,” Krauss said. And grant money is limited -- museums and tribes must compete for the same federal grants from the National Park Service.</div>
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Federal agencies have also come under scrutiny for not fully implementing NAGPRA. Two reports issued by the Government Accountability Office, one in 2010 and the other in 2011, outlined shortcomings by both the <a href="http://www.gao.gov/Products/GAO-11-515" style="border: 0px; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Smithsonian Institute</a> and <a href="http://www.nathpo.org/PDF/GAONAGPRAReport.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Federal agencies</a> in complying with the act.</div>
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However, at least the initial steps are relatively straightforward, said John F. C. Johnson, vice president of cultural resources for the Chugach Alaska Corporation. Johnson has helped to repatriate objects to Chugach tribes for more than 20 years. A federally recognized tribe sends a letter to a museum, stating in broad terms what its purpose is, and what it is searching for. Under NAGPRA, museums are mandated to send back an inventory of all items in their collection that hail from a particular region.</div>
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Then the longer process begins. A tribe will make its case to the museum, providing evidence that a certain object belongs to them. The museum makes the final call on whether to return the object. After that, an appeals process through the National Park Service is available if disputes remain.</div>
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Johnson urged tribes to designate a tribal liaison to take charge of repatriation, who can take the lead in the process.</div>
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Repatriation law falls only within the borders of the United States -- There’s no law to provide for the return of objects that are bought and sold across international lines. Sometimes objects are returned with the help of organizations. Such was the case in December 2013, when the <a href="http://www.annenbergfoundation.org/node/51351" style="border: 0px; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Annenberg Foundation purchased </a>more than $500,000 worth of Hopi and Apache artifacts at a Paris auction.</div>
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Repatriation is seen as part of a larger movement of cultural preservation to bring traditional Alaska Native culture to the forefront of people’s minds.</div>
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“If some big part of the puzzle was broken, it’s your obligation to make it whole again,” Johnson said.</div>
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Ancestral objects are “your identity, your heritage,” Johnson said. Bringing these sacred objects back to Alaska helps to unite a tribe, and bring younger generations closer to their ancestral history, Johnson said. He pointed to other measures, such as the <a href="http://www.chugach-ak.com/whoweare/cultural/Pages/NuuciqSpiritCamp.aspx" style="border: 0px; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Nuuciq Spirit Camp</a> in Prince William Sound, a 3-week camp where elders and youth come together to explore language, traditional arts and culture. It’s a way to unite the young and old, he said.</div>
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One of the Chugach tribes’ top priorities are the return of human remains and funerary objects, many of which were excavated by archeologists around the turn of the 20th century. Native Alaskans want those remains to come home. “Reverence for human remains is embedded in everyone,” Johnson said.</div>
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In the early 1900s, both grave robbers and members of the scientific community pulled up hundreds of thousands of Native American graves. Today, in museums across the country, more than <a href="http://www.nathpo.org/PDF/NATHPOtestimonyJune2011.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">120,000 Native American human remains</a> are still sitting in collections -- the vast majority of which are listed as “culturally unidentifiable.”</div>
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The attitude of the scientific community has changed immensely since the early 1900s, and now there’s far more cooperation between tribes and museums. Today, these parties “work together for the betterment of everyone,” Johnson said.</div>
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SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-6996887344870177382013-11-26T10:58:00.001-09:002013-11-26T10:59:46.066-09:00Worl says shamanism still influential in Tlingit culture today<span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; line-height: 19px;">By </span><a href="http://www.ktoo.org/author/caseyk/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Casey Kelly</a><br />
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The Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska no longer practice shamanism, but elements of it still exist in their culture today.</div>
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and Sealaska Heritage Institute President Rosita Worl, who spoke Monday as part of SHI’s Native American History Month Lecture Series.<br />
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Worl says shamanism used to be a major component of Tlingit life. She says every clan had a shaman before Russian and American colonization largely forced the Tlingit people to abandon their traditional religion.</div>
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“Shamanism is generally associated with hunting, fishing and gathering societies that often migrate with seasons to follow their food sources,” says Worl. “To bring food, health and protection from evil, shaman seek connections with animal powers through their rituals.”</div>
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Worl says the shaman’s responsibilities included maintaining the well-being of the clan; acting as a military advisor; assuring hunting and fishing success; predicting future events; and curing illnesses. To do that they performed rituals designed to ward off hostile and dangerous spirits, and call upon good spirits to support the clans’ welfare.</div>
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Worl says Tlingits believed that great shaman traveled in both the physical and spiritual world, and that spirits chose certain people to be shaman.</div>
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“The majority of spirits with which the shaman makes his alliances are animals, animal spirits,” she says. “This reflects a widespread belief by cultures that practice shamanism that animals inhabited the world long before human beings and are essential to people because of the unique knowledge that animals possess.”</div>
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She says Tlingit clans last practiced traditional shamanism in the 1950s, but she argues it still pervades the rituals and beliefs of Southeast Alaska Natives today. For instance, Worl says Tlingits – including the late-Reverend Dr. Walter Soboleff – still believe that all objects possess some sort of spiritual essence.</div>
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“I’ve had meetings here in this room, where people like our spiritual leader, Dr. Soboleff, has pounded on the table and says, ‘Everything has a spirit! Even this table has a spirit!’” Worl says, pounding her own fist on the podium.</div>
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About 15 years ago at a clan conference organized by the heritage institute, Worl says several elders attributed modern social problems, such as alcoholism and suicide, to Tlingit societies being out of balance.</div>
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“In our society we have a number of practices to ensure both social and spiritual balance, and they were holding that we were out of spiritual and social balance, and this was the cause of the social illnesses that affect our society,” Worl says.</div>
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She says that discussion led to some of SHI’s most successful cultural programs.</div>
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Worl says the influence of shamanism on modern Tlingit life is perhaps most evident in the use of sacred objects and regalia in ceremonial acts, including memorial celebrations.</div>
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“When our ceremonial and sacred objects are brought out and the spirits are addressed or called upon in the same way as they were in earlier times,” she says.</div>
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Worl says many Tlingit elders are reluctant to discuss shamanism, perhaps due to the punishment Native people endured at the hands of colonizers for practicing their religion.</div>
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She says its unlikely traditional shamanism will ever be completely revitalized, but some Tlingits are looking at ways to incorporate more of the old practices in modern ceremonies.</div>
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The next talk in SHI’s Native American History Month Lecture Series happens Tuesday at noon. Professor Alan Boras of Kenai Peninsula College gives a lecture on “Salmon and Indigenized Orthodoxy on the Nushagak River.” The theme of this year’s series is Native spirituality.<br />
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View the full lecture online by clicking <a href="http://vimeo.com/79837775">here</a>.</div>
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</span>SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-79281413088153441972013-11-14T14:56:00.002-09:002013-11-14T14:59:08.960-09:00Educator makes case for Native spirituality<span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; line-height: 19px;">By </span><a href="http://www.ktoo.org/author/edschoenfeld/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska News</a><br />
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That’s according to Jana Harcharek, director of the North Slope Borough School District’s Iñupiaq Education Department.<br />
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She spoke Nov. 12 as part of the Sealaska Heritage Institute’s <a href="http://www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_SHI_Lecture_Series_2013.html" style="border: 0px; color: #178acd; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Native spirituality lecture series</a>.</div>
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Harcharek told her audience that her culture, including its spirituality, was almost destroyed by churches and schools.</div>
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“As has been the case with many indigenous peoples across the world, the attempt through education was to assimilate the Iñupiaq into mainstream society. And a variety of methods were used, including the oppression of language, the oppression of spiritual beliefs, the oppression of song and dance, which resulted in varying degrees of success on their part,” she said.</div>
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That led to pressure on the school system to teach what many had lost.</div>
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“It’s their birthright to know their history. And as a school district, we had been depriving them of their history. And through the loss of our storytelling, we had been deprived them of our creation and origin stories,” she said.</div>
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Harcharek said about six years ago, educators decided to reach out. They traveled to North Slope communities to confer with elders. (<em><a href="http://www.nsbsd.org/Domain/44" style="border: 0px; color: #178acd; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Link to the North Slope Iñupiaq Education Department</a>.</em>)</div>
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“We were able to go back where we had been, before schools were ever established, before missions ever came to the arctic, and confer with our elders about how it is and what it is that we did to instill beliefs, to instill the sense of being a contributing member of society, before schools ever came,” she said.</div>
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An Iñupiaq education initiative was formed. It included a cross-generational panel that came up with what a young adult should know about their people’s spirituality, culture and history.</div>
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It also included contemporary Native history and roles in a modern world.</div>
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New curriculums were developed, and continue to be added to students’ class work.</div>
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Harcharek said that includes training for new teachers without an understanding of the culture.</div>
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“We’re not preaching – or teaching – kids how to be shamans. In the same way that in school we don’t teach children how to be a Catholic or a Muslim or a Hindu,” she said.</div>
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Harcharek said the program teaches students about traditional spirituality and they make their own choices.</div>
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with repatriation and other areas. SHI’s Council of Traditional Scholars has
wrestled with how to bring the knowledge of shamanism into the modern world and
to correct the many misconceptions about shamanism. Also, an Alaska court
recently heard testimony on Yup’ik fishing and spirituality, said Worl, adding
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cultural diversity and cross-cultural understanding. The institute is governed
by a Board of Trustees and guided by a Council of Traditional Scholars. Its
mission is to perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures of
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<i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Spiritual Connections and Obligations: The Foundation of Tlingit
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Tlingit cosmos is filled with spiritual presence,
essences and powers that exist both within and beyond direct
experience. Tlingit life is fundamentally relational in that
interactions with others establish the basis for existence and welfare.
All spiritual forms are attentive, sentient, and volitional and
positive relations with them are essential. These necessary relations
must be based on respect, and violation of the principle of respect can
threaten existence at many levels. It is through the continuous
circulation of respect – in thought and deed – exhibited in connections and
fulfillment of obligations in various socially and ritually prescribed ways
that Tlingit pursue a morality that will insure the continuity of
existence. The Tlingit cosmos is founded on the principle of relational
sustainability – through appropriate respectful relations, the continuity of
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continue to be oppressed as a result of Christian influences. In this
presentation, Pausauraq Jana Harcharek will speak about efforts to effect
change to make the discussion of traditional "religion" acceptable
for purposes of setting the stage for the reclamation of traditional
spirituality more widespread in the Iñupiaq region.<br />
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shamans, their traditional spiritual ideologies remain vibrant. This
discussion will review the traditional practices of shamans and focus on
Tlingit spirituality and its manifestation in cultural objects including shamanic
paraphernalia. It will also assess the exchanges between the natural
and supernatural as they continue to occur in the round of ceremonies which
are held primarily in the Fall season and in memorial rites held throughout
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world’s salmon cultures and spirituality is fundamental to their being. One
of the enduring ceremonies of the Yup’ik villages of the Nushagak River is
the Great Blessing of the Water. I will describe my observations of this
remarkable ceremony during my visit in 2011 and relate it to the people’s
fight to maintain a modern subsistence lifestyle in the face of proposed
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át ayakghwahéiyagu</span></i><span style="color: #373737; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> <i>khudzitee</i></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, the spirit in all things. Since time immemorial the Tlingit people
have practiced their beliefs with one of the most powerful words in the Tlingit
language “yáa át wooné”, respect! This leads us into the way people would
live, what they would learn, how they would learn, and how they would apply
what they learned. This covered a wide variety of topics, starting with
learning to listen, pay attention, and be still, which is important in
respecting oneself. It is important to accept one’s intelligence and become
responsible for it. Learning how to learn and applying the knowledge gained
is important. To respect is the primary cornerstone of the Tlingit house of
education and knowledge. Without education and knowledge it is difficult to
respect oneself, family, others, community, environment and all creatures
great and small. This includes the
water, the rivers, the ponds, the lakes, the streams, the rivers, the ocean,
the seas, the trees, the animals, the rocks, the mountains, hills, and the
creatures on the earth, the heavens, the sun the moon and the list goes on.
This session will describe this process with songs and stories, names, and
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SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-6116579778590799062013-10-18T08:17:00.001-08:002013-10-18T08:17:19.714-08:00Ethel Montgomery Scholarship Fund for Alaska Natives Pursuing Museum Studies<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 18.0pt;">
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Archives & Museum in conjunction with the Alaska State Museum in Juneau,
has announced the availability of the Ethel Montgomery Scholarship. Applicants
for the $2,000 scholarship must be enrolled in an Alaskan federally-recognized
tribe and pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in museum studies.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The Ethel Montgomery
Scholarship Fund was established in the 1990s to assist university-level Alaska
Native students majoring in museum studies. Ethel Montgomery was one of the
first docents at the Alaska State Museum. She was adopted into the Kaagwaantann
Wolf Clan and became a very active member of the Alaska Native Sisterhood. One
of her dreams was to help young Alaska Natives become curators and directors of
museums that celebrate their cultures. The combination of her love for museums
and for Native cultures contributed to the establishment of this scholarship.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Applications may be obtained by emailing Jackie
Schoppert, Chair, Ethel Montgomery Scholarship Committee, at <a href="mailto:kaageesaak@aol.com">kaageesaak@aol.com</a> (321-5652) or Marjorie
Menzi, <a href="mailto:marjoriemenzi@msn.com">marjoriemenzi@msn.com</a>
(723-9156). Applications must be completed and mailed by Nov. 30, 2013, to the
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SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-1354062726544700042013-10-16T08:20:00.000-08:002013-10-16T08:20:37.360-08:00Austin Hammond tells Tlingit history at Lkhoot, Haines - Recording Placed Online<div class="MsoNormal">
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Hammond—Daanawáaḵ, Gunx̱aa G̱uwakaan—presented the at.óow of the Lukaax̱.ádi to
demonstrate their sacred ties to the land. He told the history of how the
Lukaax̱.ádi acquired the sockeye salmon as a crest, and how they came to own
much of the Lḵoot area. He also showed the G̱eisán (Mt. Ripinsky) tunic, and
spoke of the Haines totem pole which depicts Naas Shagi Yéil, Raven at the Head
of the Nass River. Austin made a point that if we understand our history, then
we are more capable of fighting for our rights. He implored the people to fight
for their grandchildren. This presentation was documented by Nora Marks
Dauenhauer—Ḵeixwnéi, also of the Lukaax̱.ádi. It is now available <a href="http://vimeo.com/75515934">online</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was one of the most deeply respected and admired Tlingit Elders of his time.
Austin was deeply committed to instructing about Tlingit knowledge and
motivating Tlingit people to fight for their rights. The people whose lives he
impacted—which includes people all over Alaska and beyond—continue to talk
about Austin’s legacy and to try to embody the knowledge and values that he
shared.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sealaska Heritage Institute Operational Recordings collection. This recording
was placed online as part of an Institute of Museum & Library Services
grant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-45557772016331949692013-09-18T14:10:00.002-08:002013-09-18T14:10:11.629-08:00SHI welcomes Archives Intern Mary Brooks<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvTpPnW8OvZh8zF5U6j4e7I2QRTA1yjnb_9nbhAeLgshF8udXSg61L_C-CU5fZ3aihTgMNoo3pTCpWjoVfKHjzdRC-9xNv67GbWSMCSNJO70t5GRsSZq75qqyEcE9_7m5ZUxM1tLHGE5aA/s1600/Mary+Brooks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvTpPnW8OvZh8zF5U6j4e7I2QRTA1yjnb_9nbhAeLgshF8udXSg61L_C-CU5fZ3aihTgMNoo3pTCpWjoVfKHjzdRC-9xNv67GbWSMCSNJO70t5GRsSZq75qqyEcE9_7m5ZUxM1tLHGE5aA/s320/Mary+Brooks.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">SHI welcomes Archives Intern Mary Brooks! Mary moved to Alaska from Colorado and enrolled in college in 2008. She received her B.A. in Social Sciences and interned with SHI last year. She is presently admitted to San Jose State University </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Masters in Archives and Records Administration program.<br /><br />Mary says her goals are "to deepen knowledge of cultural heritage through examination of the varied and rich sources of information that come to the archives from many sources; catalog and protect the information for posterity; and determine appropriate avenues and facilitate pathways of said information for consumption by individuals and institutions. Presently the archival work that I am doing at SHI is a continuation of, if you will, a deepening of my knowledge of Southeast Alaskan Peoples with an eye on how technology can assist the Peoples, especially the youth, in coming to a fuller and more experiential understanding of their cultural heritage."</span>SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-46307162132282499142013-09-03T14:10:00.001-08:002013-09-03T14:10:33.939-08:00COLLECTOR BUYS, DONATES OLD HAIDA HAT TO SEALASKA HERITAGE INSTITUTE<div class="MsoNormal">
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art has donated an old spruce root hat likely made by a Haida weaver to
Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dated to 1900 or earlier and is believed to be of Haida origin because it has a
“frog’s back” design—a recognizable Haida weaving method that was incorporated
to make pieces feel bumpy, like a frog’s back. The donor, former Alaskan Monica
Wyatt, first saw the hat in August at the Flury & Company gallery in
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stop looking at it,” Wyatt said. “</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">But it was too
fine a piece for just me to have. I’ve collected contemporary pieces that
make me happy, but there’s no way I could feel good about having a cultural
piece with only me here to appreciate it. So I left the gallery.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was moved by the quiet beauty of the hat and the obvious skill of the person
who had woven it. And someone had worn the hat. I imagined the
people living in the misty forest.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">It was at that moment Wyatt had
the idea to buy it and donate it to SHI. Wyatt, who </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">grew up in Fairbanks and lived in
Anchorage for seven years, visited the institute in May and was aware of the </span><a href="https://vimeo.com/72002030" target="_blank"><span style="color: teal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">groundbreaking</span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> for the </span><a href="http://www.sealaskaheritagecenter.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: teal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Walter
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">“It just came to me in a flash
that this was where the hat belonged. I’m not an expert or a scholar, but
I was fairly confident that this was a special hat, so I bought it.”</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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President Rosita Worl said she is humbled by the generosity of Wyatt’s gift,
which cost almost $5,000.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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significant amount of money to return this remarkable hat to the Native people of
Southeast Alaska,” said Worl, noting it’s clear upon examining the piece that
the weaver was highly skilled. “We are so grateful for this. Now our weavers
will be able to learn this technique by coming to us and studying the hat.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a professional staff to care for collections. The Walter Soboleff Center, which
broke ground in August, will have a state-of-the-art facility for ethnographic
collections, archives, a library and research.<br />
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Institute</span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> was founded
in 1980 to promote cultural diversity and cross-cultural understanding. The
institute is governed by a Board of Trustees and guided by a Council of
Traditional Scholars. Its mission is to perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida,
and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-49167174346024758372013-08-30T13:30:00.003-08:002013-08-30T13:30:33.775-08:00Clarence Jackson tells a story about respect and Tlingit values<div class="first" style="background-color: #f4f5f7; color: #71767a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; padding: 0px;">
SHI has placed online a recording of Tlingit Elder and leader Clarence Jackson of the Tsaagweidí clan relating a story about respect and Native values embodied in the historical relationship between the Chilkat people and the Tsimshians of Naas River. </div>
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On February 26, 2003, Clarence Jackson told his nephew Todd Antioquia a story about respect and Native values. The story, told first in Tlingit and then in English, is about how precious abalone earrings were exchanged between the people of the Jilḵáat, Chilkat area, and the Tsimshian people from Naas, the Nass River area. The story tells of how Tlingit and Tsimshian people treat each other with courtesy and respect; how we remember departed loved ones through objects they once owned; and how we recognize and commemorate our achievements and major events. This recording can be viewed <a href="http://vimeo.com/73481384">online</a>.</div>
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Clarence Jackson (Asx̱’aak, G̱astín, Daanaawú, Tá G̱ooch) was a deeply admired Tlingit Elder of the Tsaagweidí clan from Kake, Alaska. He was also an important political and business leader, serving as a Sealaska Corporation board member from its inception in 1972 to his death in 2013; and serving as the President of the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska from 1972 – 1976. Clarence Jackson is remembered for his deep Tlingit knowledge, for integrating Tlingit cultural values into modern affairs, for his special ability to express Tlingit values and cultural concepts through stories and discourse, and as a beloved Elder.</div>
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This recording is from the Tlingit Oral Histories, Oratory and Events Recordings Collection from Sealaska Heritage Institute's archives. This recording was placed online as part of an Institute of Museum & Library Services grant.</div>
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SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-86673589167569026092013-08-08T09:00:00.001-08:002013-08-08T09:01:10.131-08:00SHI TO HOLD PUBLIC VIEWING AT SANTA FE INDIAN MARKET<div class="style1 style2 style3" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
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<a href="http://www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/images/SantaFe/Copper-Totem-by-preston-singletary_fb.gif" style="color: #20839b;" target="_blank"><img align="right" alt="“Copper Totem” by Preston Singletary will be featured at the viewing. Photo by Russell Johnson. For high resolution image contact Kathy Dye, kathy.dye@sealaska.com; 907.586.9189" border="0" height="250" hspace="5" src="http://www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/images/SantaFe/Copper-Totem-by-preston-singletary_250.gif" vspace="5" width="167" /></a>Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a public viewing during the Santa Fe Indian Market in its continuing effort to familiarize collectors with Northwest Coast art—some of the most distinctive and unique art in the world.<br />
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The event will include a display of the institute’s ethnographic collection and staff will be on hand to explain the pieces’ significance to Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian cultures—especially why some objects are considered sacred.<br />
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“We have great ethnographic collections and we’re just going to be selecting a few pieces,” said SHI President Rosita Worl. “Some of them have sacred dimensions to them and we want to explain to the people that ‘Yes, we do have art but it has this cultural meaning as well.’ ”<br />
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The event is scheduled 2-4 pm, Thursday, Aug. 15, at the Gallery Room of the Eldorado Hotel located at 309 W. San Francisco St. near the market. The event is free. Shortly after the public viewing, SHI will hold a private reception, which will be co-hosted by the renowned Tlingit glass artist Preston Singletary.<br />
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This is the third year SHI has brought Alaska Native art and culture to the market, though the institute will not sponsor a dance group and artist tables this year due to a lack of funds. SHI is sponsoring an event on a smaller scale to maintain a connection with the market’s collectors, Worl said.<br />
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“We felt it was really important to go to Santa Fe to maintain continuity and to have a presence in the center of Native American art that attracts people who love and prize Native art,” said Worl, noting the viewing will include old and contemporary pieces.<br />
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The institute is trying to create an annual art market on a similar scale in Juneau, Alaska, where SHI is located, and staff will continue to learn how the Santa Fe market operates on this trip. SHI also is sponsoring its first art auction in February, and staff has been preparing by observing the Santa Fe art auction held during the market. SHI’s Tináa Art Auction will be held in Juneau and include pieces by some of the biggest names in Northwest Coast art. In addition, SHI sells Northwest Coast art through its store, Jinéit, and proceeds fund the institute’s educational programs for Native people and the general public.<br />
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The Santa Fe Indian Market over the past 90 years has been instrumental in creating worldwide demand for Southwest Indian art. The two-day market, scheduled Aug. 17-18, is operated by the nonprofit Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA), which invited SHI to participate. The market draws nearly 100,000 patrons.<br />
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Sealaska Heritage Institute is a private, nonprofit founded in 1980 to promote cultural diversity and cross-cultural understanding. The institute is governed by a Board of Trustees and guided by a Council of Traditional Scholars. Its mission is to perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska.</div>
SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-73924062667076556022013-08-08T08:58:00.002-08:002013-08-08T08:59:42.288-08:00Parnell's board reappointments include Juneau's Zachary Jones and Ben Brown<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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On July 1, Gov. Sean Parnell announced appointments to five state boards. Two local men, Zachary Jones and Ben Brown, were on his list of reappointments.</div>
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Jones was reappointed to the State Historical Records Advisory Board. He is the archivist and collections manager for the Sealaska Heritage Institute and an adjunct instructor of history at the University of Alaska Southeast. Before coming to Alaska, he worked in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department at the Swem Library, College of William & Mary in Virginia. He holds a master’s degree in comparative history from the College of William & Mary, received a certificate </div>
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of advanced studies in archives and records administration from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Native American history from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Jones has been reappointed to a seat representing Native American record-keeping.<br />
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Also reappointed was Fairbanks resident Dennis Moser, head of Alaska and Polar Regions Collections and Archives at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Elmer Rasmuson Library. He has been reappointed as a representative of UAF.</div>
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The State Historical Records Advisory Board reviews project requests, grant applications and conducts reviews and planning for statewide needs relating to records management and historical documents.</div>
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Juneau resident Brown was reappointed to the Alaska State Council on the Arts. Brown, a company member at Perseverance Theatre, is an attorney and member of the Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission. He previously worked with Baxter, Bruce & Sullivan, and currently serves on the board of directors for the National Assembly of State Art Agencies and on the board of Alaska Public Media. He has been reappointed to a public seat.</div>
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Also reppointed were Aryne Randall of Wasilla, and Kesler Woodward of Fairbanks.</div>
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Randall is a district manager for Wells Fargo Bank, and Woodward is an academic affiliate at the University of Alaska Museum and a professor emeritus of art and northern studies at UAF. Woodward, who formerly worked at the Alaska State Museum, was awarded the first-ever Alaska Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts.</div>
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The mission of the Alaska State Council on the Arts is to enrich the cultural life of the state by encouraging and supporting excellence in the arts, provide opportunities for every Alaskan to experience the arts, promote the practice and enjoyment of the arts in Alaska, and guide the development of the arts throughout the state.</div>
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In addition to the State Historical Records Advisory Board and Alaska State Council on the Arts, Gov. Parnell announced appointments to the Alaska Police Standards Council, Local Boundary Commission and Prince William Sound Oil Spill Recovery Institute Advisory Board.</div>
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SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-20757193651459726662013-06-17T14:31:00.003-08:002013-06-17T14:32:16.122-08:00SHI 2013 Visiting Scholar to research sustainable eco-tourism businesses<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="background-color: white;"><span class="style1 style2 style3 style4 style4">SHI welcomes our 2013 Visiting Scholar, Paphaphit Wanasuk of Oxford University, who is studying toward an MSc in Environmental Change and Management. She is conducting research for her master dissertation project, entitled “Can sustainable eco-tourism businesses be realized through local social entrepreneurship in Alaska Native communities, and if so how?” The goal of this research is to assess if a pathway to the sustainable eco-tourism businesses through social entrepreneurship approach can be achieved in Alaska. The theory of sustainability will be used to develop sustainable eco-tourism business practices in which she plans to extend the interpretation of sustainability concept with a bioregional and cultural perspective. Furthermore, she is also interested in researching the collaborative, networked social enterprise initiatives among tribes, corporations and local businesses to achieve optimal benefits from indigenous tourism in the region to enhance the sustainability and cultural diversity values. </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">(</span><a href="http://www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/images/VisitingScholars/Abstract.pdf" style="background-color: white; color: #20839b;" target="_blank">Abstract</a><span style="background-color: white;">) (</span><a href="http://www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/images/VisitingScholars/letter.pdf" style="background-color: white; color: #20839b;" target="_blank">Letter of Invitation</a><span style="background-color: white;">)</span></span>SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-26796294098860801322013-06-06T13:59:00.002-08:002013-06-07T13:28:25.451-08:00Archival recording of Tlingit peace ceremony recorded in 1980 at Haines, Alaska posted online.<div class="MsoNormal">
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ceremony recorded in August of 1980 in Haines, Alaska. On that day, Austin
Hammond (Gunx̱aa G̱uwakaan, Daanawáaḵ), clan leader of the Lukaax̱.ádi,
gathered together the Tlingit and non-Native community </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to protest the
mistreatment of the land and people of his ancestral homeland of Lḵoot, Haines,
and to lead a G̱uwakaan Ḵoo.éex’, a Peace Ceremony. According to the film Haa
Shagóon (Kawakey, 1981), Austin requested that “the peace rock, or ‘Deer Rock,’
G̱uwakaan Teiyí, broken into pieces by road builders, be made whole; that the
fish weir be removed; that our sacred burial grounds be protected so never
again will the bones of our ancestors lay scattered and disturbed; and we ask
that we may lawfully catch salmon for our subsistence in this river, a heritage
denied to us that is rightfully ours." The audio recording can be heard by
clicking <a href="http://vimeo.com/67899667">here</a>.<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Tlingit language content, followed by an English translation, is made available
for study and research purposes, and especially for Tlingit language learners
and teachers.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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and cross-cultural understanding. The institute is governed by a Board of
Trustees and guided by a Council of Traditional Scholars. Its mission is to
perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast
Alaska.</span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-38824964090299677072013-06-05T11:05:00.005-08:002013-06-05T11:07:38.839-08:00Tlingit Saanyá Khwáan elders Bessie and Henry Denny speak on Tlingit history, 1966.<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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has just posted a recording of Tlingit elder Bessie Denny (1870–1973) telling
stories in the Tlingit language with her son Henry Denny Jr. (1902-1979, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tlingit names Asdax̱aay, Gitx̱wán, and G̱ashéiḵsh IV<span style="background: white;">) translating into English, recorded at Saxman,
Alaska, February, 1966. (click <a href="http://vimeo.com/67169777">here</a> to hear the recording) This was a recording
prepared for public use by and at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Grand Camp
Convention in 1966. Bessie tells the history of the Saanyá <u>K</u>wáan,
the people of Cape Fox, which comprises the Nei<u>x</u>.ádi, Kiks.ádi and the
Teikweidí clans. </span>She tells of the migration routes, place names and
acquisition of crests. The stories are significant for the storytelling and
capable translation of two master storytellers of the Cape Fox area in Bessie
and Henry Denny; for an example the deep history of traditional Tlingit
people’s connection to a place, where there is history and life in everything;
and for an early recording of a master storyteller and historian in Bessie
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were born from the 1890s and after. The texts transcribed and translated by the
ethnographer John Swanton in <i>Tlingit
Myths and Texts</i> (1909) represent part of the small handful of documentation
from Tlingit speakers born earlier than the 1890s, and the oldest speaker from
the modern era includes texts from Sally Hopkins (Sx̱aastí) documented in <i>Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká: Russians in Tlingit
America</i> (2008, Dauenhauer), who was born in 1878. </span></div>
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earlier dialect than much of the extant documentation of Tlingit Elders. It is
a rare recording from the older generation of Tlingit speakers, told in
masterful detail and with brilliant visual acuity by Bessie Denny, and expertly
translated by her son Henry. This recording was also selected especially for use
by Tlingit language learners and teachers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-72382000978878380062013-06-05T10:50:00.003-08:002013-06-05T10:51:19.897-08:00Tlingit artist Nathan Jackson speaks on Northwest Coast art, 1974.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY4IjwP_yAm4lf4PiUxS51AJ7dj44ivm4cMLlLQMrqIDsMB2QHoXapYQAIli3zLRUgGdUsIebPRBSakqm2UDV4KHXZbUFj9Pc2rkASVGdu7moVgKD7V6WnwuR-MBevo3OCr024jdngpM32/s1600/n+jackson+wolf+pipe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY4IjwP_yAm4lf4PiUxS51AJ7dj44ivm4cMLlLQMrqIDsMB2QHoXapYQAIli3zLRUgGdUsIebPRBSakqm2UDV4KHXZbUFj9Pc2rkASVGdu7moVgKD7V6WnwuR-MBevo3OCr024jdngpM32/s320/n+jackson+wolf+pipe.jpg" width="240" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sealaska Heritage Institute has recently made publicly available a documentary produced in 1974 on Tlingit artist Nathan Jackson, as he was commissioned to carve a wall screen for Harvard University's Peabody Museum. Narrated by SHI President Rosita Worl, the documentary showcases aspects of Northwest Coast art from the perspective of master artist Nathan Jackson. This video is from the Rosita Worl Collection, and can be accessed by clicking <a href="http://vimeo.com/67251894">here</a>.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpIwz7XLLauD4TbZueuxER2w9d5V3XH_vW_aOCommEjGxY0EB1bkF_MGybDEGX9B1remH1418y15qJuQDHAJxgT72qo3YgIjym6ZEd6hH7vnVgL8MnJNDMj0Br6MIk2pJdxNyGkv36DuYa/s1600/puppets_thumb.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpIwz7XLLauD4TbZueuxER2w9d5V3XH_vW_aOCommEjGxY0EB1bkF_MGybDEGX9B1remH1418y15qJuQDHAJxgT72qo3YgIjym6ZEd6hH7vnVgL8MnJNDMj0Br6MIk2pJdxNyGkv36DuYa/s200/puppets_thumb.gif" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Let’s learn language is a ten-part series of </span><a href="http://www.schooltube.com/video/d5a4019fccc84957a4d9/Let's%20Learn%20Language-Clincket%20(Tlingit)%20Version:%20Unit%201" style="background-color: white; color: #20839b;" target="_blank">Tlingit language lessons</a><span style="background-color: white;">. “They are some of the earliest video production language learning tools among the Tlingit,” said SHI Archivist Zachary Jones. The whimsical looking lessons were produced in 1969 by the Juneau Indian Studies Program.“They are teaching the greetings, it teaches colors, numbers and there’s lots of repetition in there and we know that we all learn language by hearing it first,” said SHI Education Specialist Linda Belarde. “You can hear the rhythm and you can hear the tones and you can hear how words are put together.” Simple lessons by very plain puppets but just as valid today as they were over 40 years ago. “They’re a great resource whether the student is a young child or perhaps a university student,” Jones said…(</span><a href="http://www.ktuu.com/videogallery/75651151/News/Assignment-Alaska-Tlingit-Language-Lessons#gl-0" style="background-color: white; color: #20839b;" target="_blank">more</a><span style="background-color: white;">) (</span><a href="http://www.schooltube.com/video/d5a4019fccc84957a4d9/Let's%20Learn%20Language-Clincket%20(Tlingit)%20Version:%20Unit%201" style="background-color: white; color: #20839b;" target="_blank">Let’s Learn Language</a><span style="background-color: white;">)</span></span>SHI Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167503053972965921noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749487855303910234.post-4161143394531688832013-04-10T11:15:00.000-08:002013-04-10T11:36:42.848-08:00Tlingit Language from the Archives of Sealaska Heritage Institute<br />
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Sealaska Heritage Institute has approximately 5,000 recordings that concern the
Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian people, which are open to the public for research
and educational purposes. Recently the Sealaska Heritage Institute partnered
with the Alaska State Library’s Historical Collections Department to migrate ten
rare format Tlingit language recordings (on Videotronic Super 8 Cartridges) to
modern and digital format. These language recordings were originally developed
in 1969 through the Juneau Indian Studies Program and consist of ten Tlingit
language lessons and use of hand puppets to narrate the language lessons. The
Tlingit speakers are Johnny Marks (1943-2009) and Eva Marks (1952-1981). These
recordings have now been placed online and can be used for language education.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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first recording from this set of language lessons, <i>Lesson 1: What’s Your Name?</i>, can be viewed by <b><a href="http://www.schooltube.com/video/d5a4019fccc84957a4d9/Let's%20Learn%20Language-Clincket%20(Tlingit)%20Version:%20Unit%201">clicking here</a>.</b> (The remaining lessons are available through the
link.) These recordings are just a sample of those found in the Sealaska
Heritage Institute’s archival <a href="http://shicollections.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=46">Juneau Indian Studies Recordings Collection</a>, as
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nonprofit founded in 1980 to promote cultural diversity and cross-cultural
understanding. The institute is governed by a Board of Trustees and guided by a
Council of Traditional Scholars. Its mission is to perpetuate and enhance
Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt;">Photo credit: Photograph of Johnny Marks, photo by Richard Dauenhauer.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt;">Note: Copyright permission to use these
films by Sealaska Heritage Institute was granted by the Belo Corporation, owner
of the former King Broadcasting Company, in 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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