Recovering Tlingit ancestors and places in Louis Shotridge’s photographs

This work-shop will introduce and share copies of Louis Shotridge’s photographs, and will ask participants for their help in identifying photographic content. ALL are welcome and we would be most grateful for your participation! Gunalchéesh!

 

Sitka’s Lost Decade: The Story of 1867-1877

Explore how Sitka Tlingit and “Creole” people, the fur trade, missionaries and soldiers, “hootch,” and stereotypes shaped Alaska as we know it today from an historical and regional context and a detailed exploration of actual interactions and perceptions on the ground.

Third International Tlingit Spelling Bee and Language Learning Activities.

Win a cash prize in the Third International Tlingit Spelling Bee. Practice new language learning games.

Russians and the Tlingit: Conflicts, Contacts, Legacies

 Andrei Grinev

Interethnic Marriages of the Tlingit During the Russian American Era and Their Significance

This paper deals with marriages and other forms of intimate relations between the Tlingit people and the newcomers from the Russian Empire as well as with Alaska Natives during the era of Russian America. Two forms of matrimonial relations existed: those consecrated by the Orthodox Church and permanent non-consecrated ones.

 Andrei Znamenski

Alaska Past in Current Russian Nationalist Rhetoric

 Ilya Vinkovetsky

Russian Naval officers’ views on the Tlingit

From the beginning of the nineteenth century until 1867, officers of the Russian navy were a constant presence in and around Tlingit lands. This paper examines how these officers viewed the Tlingit as a people and specific Tlingits as individuals.

 Sergei Kan

Tlingit-Russian Interpreters Before and After 1867

The main focus of this paper is on Ivan Zhukov (1825-1886), a son of a Tlingit mother and a Russian father, who was a talented interpreter, a Tlingit language teacher at the Sitka Seminary, and a translator of religious texts. After 1867 he used his skills in American-dominated Alaska and shared his knowledge of Tlingit culture with George Emmons.

Kiks.adí Cultural Event