A panel featuring Haida, Lingit and Sm’algyax speakers is being held today via Zoom, with the Sealaska Heritage Institute offering free admission to the Shuká Hít clan house and Juried Art Show exhibit in Juneau.
Culture Bearer Daaljíni Cruise tells Juneau second-graders a traditional Alaskan Native story during an excursion to the Walter Soboleff Building on Nov. 16, 2017. The University of Alaska Southeast is hosting a panel on language revitalization efforts for three Southeast Alaska Native languages, according to UAS Lingít professor X’unei Lance Twitchell.
Often, the discussion of language serves as both a celebration of Indigenous identity and a reflection on harm done to Native languages, he said. The featured speakers are Jaskwaan from the Haida language community, Daaljíni from the Lingít language community and Alex Roehl from the Juneau Sm’algyax learners group.
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