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Indigenous words for "thank you" express cultural values.

“I hope you feel a sense of being together and united on this place.”

“He was a mentor, he was a friend, he taught me so much…”

News Release First Alaskans Institute First Alaskans Institute (FAI), a statewide Alaska Native advocacy nonprofit, is proud to announce our 11th Annual Howard

In-person lectures return next month.

His grandmother was forbidden to speak Lingít in school. Now, school is helping him reclaim it.

Imagine teaching a language you’re still learning. Or raising your kids to speak it when you’re not yet fluent. For communities trying to revive their Indigenous languages, these are daily challenges – and at stake are both the history and future of their culture. In this episode, we meet educators and parents fighting to give their children their ancestral language, Lingít (Tlingit). What does it take to save a language?

News Release Sealaska Heritage Institute A Haida and Tlingit artist from Georgia has won Sealaska Heritage Institute’s (SHI) first-ever competition to

We are past the point of crisis Professors push for University of Alaska system to overhaul Indigenous language programs Author: Apr 30, 2021 Stewart Huntington ANCHORAGE — Alaska is home to a rich tapestry of more than 20 Native languages, but some are fading and others are threatened. Now a group of Native scholars is urging the University of Alaska System to adopt a major overhaul of its Indigenous language programs in a fight against time to preserve living cultural treasures. “We are p...

X̱unei Lance Twitchell, a council member and Tlingit language scholar, said the Legislature should support growth of the 21 Alaska Native languages that are spoken today.