The clan persists through time. Sergei Kan, a noted anthropologist of Tlingit culture, has labeled this phenomenon as a form of "Symbolic Immortality." A clan owns a host of names, and succeeding ...

A local harbormaster says the animal had been snapping at people and pets, stalking them as they walked the docks.

Each clan was protective of their land. Land ownership is one of the biggest laws in the Tlingit culture. You did not fish or hunt on somebody else's land without their permission. If you did your ...

It was Oct. 26, 1882, in Angoon, a Tlingit village of about 420 people in the southeastern Alaska panhandle. Now, 142 years later, the perpetrator of the bombardment — the U.S. Navy —has ...

Tribal members from the Wrangell Cooperative Association were introduced on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building this ...

She asked Jonaitis what it was, and the museum director told her it was Tlingit beadwork. “I said, ‘How do I not know about this history?’ So that led to my research question. That put me on ...

“The Navy recognizes the pain and suffering inflicted upon the Tlingit people, and we acknowledge these wrongful actions resulted in the loss of life, the loss of resources, the loss of culture ...

their approach honed what became a lifelong determination to preserve her Tlingit culture and language. Worl grew up and took a job as president of the Sealaska Heritage Institute, which under her ...

The Teslin Tlingit Council in the Yukon is planning a re-do of last September's election, after the earlier vote was deemed invalid. The First Nation's electoral adjudicator last month ordered a ...