Sharing Our Knowledge Clan Conference 2019
September 25 – 29, 2019. To view playlist at YouTube Click Here
Sharing Our Knowledge
A Conference of Tlingit-Haida-Tsimshian Tribes and Clans
Juneau • September 26-29, 2019
Session Key & Venues:
a = EP (Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall )
b = APK Lecture Hall (Andrew P. Kashevaroff State Library, Archives, and Museum)
c = KTOO Television Studio
Note: each venue is within a block of each other in the Auke Village District; bus transportation was provided between venues throughout the conference.
Presentations held throughout the conference:
Gathering of Weavers • All DAY • Thursday, Friday, Saturday • APK Atrium • Lily Hope et al.
3-D digitization • All DAY • Thursday, Friday, Saturday • APK Classroom by technical experts of the Smithsonian
Institution, Cultural Heritage Imaging, and University of South Florida
Experiencing the Tlingit Spearthrower • AFTERNOONS • Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 3:30-4:45 • outdoor behind
the Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall • Richard Vanderhoek, Eric Hollinger, and Steve Henrikson
Juneau-Douglas Native Graves Cemetery Tour • SATURDAY • 1:30-3:00 • Bob Sam
THURSDAY, September 26
Key Time Place Presenter(s) Topic
8:30-10:00 EP Hall Áak’w Kwáan Welcoming Plenary Session
10:00-10:30 EP Hall Pathways … Indigenous Tea break
1-a 10:30-Noon EP Hall GHF Staff Language Roundtable Discussion, Part I
1-b 10:30-11:00 APK Aldona Jonaitis Tlingit art today – the present depends on the past
1-b 11:00-Noon APK Virginia Oliver et al. Identifying Smithsonian Items
1-c 10:30-11:00 KTOO Richard Carstensen Glacial and Cultural History of Northern Lingít Áaní.
1-c 11:00-Noon KTOO Sarah Betcher et al. Ikaaġvik Sikukun [ Iñupiaq for Ice Bridges]
LUNCH: noon, Friday September 26
2-a 1:30-3:00 EP Hall GHF Staff Language Roundtable Discussion (continued)
2-b 1:30-3:00 APK Tech experts 3D digitization of Cultural Objects for Preservation
2-c 1:30-3:00 KTOO Vivian Mork Harvesting in a Time of Climate Change
BREAK: 3 pm Friday September 26
3-a 3:15-4:45 EP Hall GHF Staff Language Roundtable Discussion (continued)
3-b 3:15-3:45 APK Carlton Smith The Family History and Culture Legacy Gift
3-b 3:45-4:45 APK Liana Wallace The Chilkat Dye Working Group
3-c 3:15-4:15 KTOO Meda DeWitt Behavioral Health and Climate Change
3-c 4:15-4:45 KTOO Kenneth Weitzel Tlingit & Haida’s Climate Change Adaptation Plan
3-c Learning Your Cultural Language
EVENT: Friday September 26, 6:30-9:30 pm EP Hall GHF Staff Sharing Our Language Cultural Gathering
FRIDAY , September 27
8:30- 10:15 EP Hall Rosita Worl Blood Quantum/Plenary Session
4-a 10:30-11:30 EP Hall Alfie Price Reclaiming Ts’msyen Cultural Identity
4-b 10:30-11:30 APK Joaqlin Estus Climate change and Alaska Natives
4-b 11:30-Noon APK Emily Moore The CCC Poles in Juneau
4-c 10:30-11:30 KTOO Richard Vanderhoek The Tlingit Spearthrower (Shee ann)
4-c 11:30-Noon KTOO Naomi Michalsen et al. Because of Her We Can! Women are Sacred
LUNCH Noon-1:15 EP HALL Cordelia Q. Kellie Unapologetic: Exerting Sovereignty (ticket required)
5-a 2:00-3:00 EP Hall Bertram Adams [Adams took ill; In-land Tlingit story-tellers substituted]
5-b 1:30-3:15 APK S. Yarrow Vaara Canoe Carvers Colloquium
5-c 1:30-2:30 KTOO Linda & Daphne 4th International Língit Spelling Bee
5-c 2:30-3:00 KTOO Linda S. Belarde Learning Your Ancestral Language
BREAK: FRIDAY , September 27
6-a 3:15-3:45 EP Hall Amelia Wilson et al. The Changing Climate on Native Veterans
6-a 3:45-4:45 EP Hall X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell Current Projects in Lingít Oral Literature
6-b 3:15-4:45 APK Lani Strong Hotch et al. The Spirit Wraps Around You
6-c 3:15-3:45 KTOO Matthew Spellberg Thoughts on Teaching a Work of Oral Literature
6-c 3:45-4:45 KTOO Dan Montieth A New Climate: What have you observed?
6:00 pm EP Hall Sharing Our Language Cultural Gathering Part 2 GHF Staff
SATURDAY, September 28
8:30-10:00 EP Hall Tom Thornton The Great Flood, Sacred Mountains, Climate Change
7-a 10:30-11:15 EP Hall Tagish Denke Elders Brief outline of history of Dena people in the north
7-a 11:15-Noon EP Hall Tagish Denke Elders Dyea, Chilkoot Trail & White Pass Trail History
7-b 10:30-Noon APK Zachary Jones et al. Archival Film Screening
[Films are available by request]
7-c 10:30-11:30 KTOO Peter Metcalfe Meet the Authors
LUNCH: SATURDAY, September 28
8-a 1:30-3:00 EP Hall Jordan Craddick Becoming Tlingit
8-b 1:30-3:00 APK Zachary Jones et al. Archival Film Screening
[Films are available by request]
8-c 1:30-3:00 KTOO Gaylene Nikora, et al. College and Career Curriculum
BREAK: SATURDAY, September 28
9-a 3:15-4:15 EP Hall Ben Paul History of Tillie Paul Tamaree
9-b 3:15-4:45 APK Zachary Jones et al. Archival Film Screening
[Films are available upon request]
9-c 3:15- 4:15 KTOO S. Nancy Keen Stewards of the Land
BANQUET 7:00-9:30 EP Hall Richard Peterson The Need to Share Knowledge (ticket required)
SUNDAY, September 29
10:00-11:45 UAS* Bob Sam et al. “The World of the Áak’w Kwáan” orientation
NOON-3:00 Auke Bay Boat Tour of Áak’w Kwáan
* University of Alaska Southeast