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This year’s event promises almost 1,600 dancers from 36 dance groups, including the lead dance group Dakhká Khwáan Dancers from Whitehorse, Canada.

“We’re hoping that our programming can bridge some of the standing gaps of where Indigenous science has been left out in those subjects and build some interest and pathways for our Alaska Native youth.”

As a cultural interpreter, John Lawrence tries to answer any questions people might have. Some questions are about paint. Other questions are harder.

With this grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the institute says it’s about 70% to its goal for this project.

Sealaska Heritage is celebrating the return of a 100-year-old Chilkat robe in a homecoming celebration that begins at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Walter Soboleff Building in the Shuká Hít clan house. Sealaska Heritage also plans to stream video of the celebration on Facebook Live. 

Three young Alaska Native artists, including one from Ketchikan and one from Hydaburg, have been chosen to carve cedar house posts that will be cast in bronze and displayed in front of the Walter Soboleff Building in Juneau.

Tlingit battle helmets were designed to inspire fear. The thick, wooden head armor carried imagery of strong warriors, fierce animals or revered ancestors.

SHI Education Director Jacke Kookesh says the program creates “safe places for the language to be in the air and to be heard.”

The archives facility at the Walter Soboleff building will be named after William L. Paul Sr.