Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Four hundred fifteen full- and part-time students and vocational-technical students are recieving scholarships from Sealaska for the 2021-2022 school year.
Sealaska is partnering with Sealaska Heritage Institute to invest in educational programs that benefit Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian people.
Together, they directed more than $1 million to students in the 2021-2022 school year. “Individual awards have continued to grow since 2016,” said SHI President Rosita Worl in a release. “Scholarship amounts have more than doubled in the last five years despite an increase in recipients.”
âJourney of the Freckled Indianâ
A childrenâs book and upcoming series by Tlingit writer Alyssa London challenge misconceptions about Indigenous identity
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May 4, 2021
Alyssa London, Tlingit, who won the Miss Alaska USA pageant in 2017, has written a children s book about growing up in a multicultural family, Journey of the Freckled Indian. A series of books and a television shows is now planned. (Photo courtesy of Alyssa London)
A childrenâs book and upcoming series by Tlingit writer Alyssa London challenge misconceptions about Indigenous identity
Richard Arlin Walker
When Alyssa London, Tlingit, was growing up, she didn’t meet her peers’ expectations of what an Indigenous person would look like.
Photo courtesy of Sealaska Heritage Institute Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Sealaska Heritage Institute has received funding to digitize hundreds of recordings of interviews with notable Elders, clan leaders, and other Native people, according to a release from SHI.
The recordings date back 35 years and were part of the public radio program, Southeast Native Radio, which aired between 1985 and 2001 in Juneau. The collection was donated to SHI in 2010 from KTOO.
SHI president Rosita Worl calls the collection a record of contemporary Native history in Southeast Alaska.
Back in action: RES 2021, UNITY set to return
One of the largest business events in Indian Country and a national youth gathering gear up for July events
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Apr 29, 2021
The Reservation Economic Summit aka ‘RES,’ brings together thousands to advance economic development for tribes and Native entrepreneurs. In 2021, the event will be held both in-person and virtual as the pandemic lingers on. (Photo courtesy of RES)
One of the largest business events in Indian Country and a national youth gathering gear up for July events
Natasha Brennan
RES 2021 is on.
The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development announced the Reservation Economic Summit, RES 2021, will be held both in-person and virtually this year, albeit a few months later than expected.
Upcoming Native Youth Olympics events in Ketchikan postponed due to COVID-19; Kayhi to stay closed
Posted by Eric Stone | Apr 28, 2021
Kyle Worl demonstrates the One Foot High Kick, and event in the Native Youth Olympics. (Photo by Adelyn Baxter/KTOO)
This weekend’s upcoming Native Youth Olympics Traditional Games in Ketchikan have been postponed. That’s after Ketchikan’s school district announced a cluster of at least five new cases of COVID-19 among people who attended a high school wrestling tournament, the prom and an after-party.
The 10-event Native Youth Games includes tests of strength, agility, balance, endurance and focus. They’re based on hunting and survival skills of Alaska’s Indigenous peoples.