4-d • 3:15-4:45 • Yaw Arts 105 • Duane Gastant’ Aucoin, Aggie Johnston, Martina Sidney, Anne Turner, Pauline Sidney, Berdina Hager, Billy Smarch, Charlene Peters

Integrating Haa Kusteeyí into a Modern Tlingit Government

The need for healing our people today is traced to attacks on Haa Kusteeyí by governments and churches in Canada and the United States. Teslin

 Tlingit Council has taken 3 initiatives to integrate Haa Kusteeyí into modern Tlingit Government; our Constitution and Clan Governance, the Citizenship Code, and the Language/Culture Act.