The Ketchikan School Board is set to meet on Wednesday evening to hear the latest information from the acting superintendent about the Ketchikan School District s COVID-19 risk level assignments.
A COVID-19 outbreak in the community two weeks ago led to a surge in cases last week, many connected to students and staff at Ketchikan High School.
The district closed Kayhi to in-person instruction last week, but at the board s direction did not close other secondary schools in the district.
At the conclusion of an emergency board meeting last Wednesday, the board directed Acting Superintendent Katie Parrott to set Smart Start coronavirus risk levels for individual schools, rather than using one metric for the entire district.
Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Commencement exercises for the University of Alaska Southeast will be virtual for the Juneau, Sitka, and Ketchikan campuses and available at 5 p.m. Friday.
The student speaker for the Juneau commencement will be Anastasia Erickson who will receive a Bachelor of Arts in English degree.
Pauline Kookesh Duncan will receive an Honorary Doctorate of Education. She is described by UAS as a greatly respected teacher and culture bearer, who created an invaluable legacy of teaching materials that merge Tlingit culture and language with Alaska educational standards. She will also speak during the Juneau commencement.
Gordon Jackson of Kake and Juneau and Elizabeth Nelson of Ketchikan will be presented meritorious service awards.
We are past the point of crisis
Professors push for University of Alaska system to overhaul Indigenous language programs
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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 past the point of crisis,” said X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell, a citizen of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes and associate professor of Alaska Native languages at the University of Alaska Southeast.
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The PBS Show Celebrating Alaska Native Communities
Athabascan advisers for “Molly of Denali,” left to right, Dewey Kk’ołeyo Hoffman, Rochelle Adams, Adeline Peter Raboff, and the show s original Creative Director Princess Daazhraii Johnson. Seated in front is Tanana Athabascan elder Luke Titus, whose story of surviving boarding school became the inspiration for the first episode, “Grandpa s Drum.”
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The Indigenous writers and developers of “Molly of Denali” also share their own stories and find healing in the process.
Anchorage, Alaska (KINY) - The Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé Crimson Bears diamond boys defeated the Eagle River Wolves 6-4 in the third place game of the ASAA/First National Bank of Alaska State Baseball Tournament on Saturday at Anchorage’s Mulcahy Stadium Field. Anchorage, Alaska (KINY) - Senior JoJo Griggs hit a double with the bases loaded, scoring senior Mackenzie Jackson and freshman Chloe Casperson, to give the Juneau-Douglas High School Yadaa.at Kalé Crimson Bears softball team an inning shortened, 16-4, walk-off win over the North Pole Patriots for the 2021 ASAA/First National Bank Alaska State Softball Championship, Saturday, at Anchorage’s Cartee Fields.