Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hometown: I am Tlingit Indian from Southeast Alaska. I belong to the Dakl'aweidi Clan (killer whale). I was born and raised in ...

Lingít activist Wanda Culp. (Photo by Melissa Lyttle, courtesy of Southeast Alaska Conservation Council) It has been 21 years since the 2001 Roadless Rule for the Tongass National Forest was first ...

The first Tlingit opera is in production. It's about the Tlingit-Russian wars in Southeast Alaska at the start of the 19th century, and while it's still in the early development stage, its creators ...

The pageantry of western opera will join forces with the Tlingit culture’s rich history of storytelling, singing and dancing to create the world’s first Tlingit opera. The opera will premiere at the ...

A fish doesn’t jump in Tlingit, the native language of indigenous people of Southeast Alaska. It performs a feat no word in English can adequately express. The verb in Tlingit captures the instant ...

On Friday morning, elementary school-aged children wearing bright orange T-shirts danced and sang in Tlingit in front of their teachers, family and other community members with two girls beating on ...

In the late 1990s, Megan Smetzer was an art history graduate student at Williams College in Massachusetts who hadn’t yet settled on a topic for her thesis. Having grown up in Fairbanks, she was ...

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Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from “Preston Singletary: Raven and the Box of Daylight” by Miranda Shkík Belarde-Lewis and John Drury (University of Washington Press, $50 hardcover, 144 ...