Cultural activities, site visits, and other presentations are held during the evenings and, like the weavers’ gathering and Native arts sale, are held during the days of the conference.
The Sharing Our Knowledge conferences began in 1993 and continued in roughly two-year increments until the late 1990s. The conference was reprised in 2007. See links below for conference-specific information.
Link to Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/sharingourknowledge/
Link to News Stories
2022 KTOO-FM Juneau
https://www.ktoo.org/2022/09/07/2022-sharing-our-knowledge-conference-starts-this-week-in-wrangell-2022-09-06/
2022 KINY-AM Juneau
https://www.kinyradio.com/news/news-of-the-north/sharing-our-knowledge-conference-to-be-held-in-wrangell-this-year/
2022 KSTK-FM Wrangell
https://www.kstk.org/2022/09/06/sharing-our-knowledge-conference-kicks-off-in-wrangell-this-week/
2022 Juneau Empire (a reprint of Wrangell Sentinel article by Mia Wiederspohn Yeil Dlaak’)
https://www.juneauempire.com/news/resilient-peoples-place-when-a-time-for-peace-is-facilitated-through-partnership/
2019 KTOO-FM Juneau
https://www.ktoo.org/2019/09/20/sok-begins-thursday/
2019 Juneau Empire
https://www.juneauempire.com/news/langauge-culture-take-center-stage-at-conference-opening/
2019 Alaska Public Media (about the SOK Spelling Bee)
https://alaskapublic.org/2019/10/03/international-lingit-spelling-bee-brings-together-alaska-native-language-learners-in-juneau/
2019 Smithsonian Institution (Gifting of the Sculpin Hat replica to the Kiks.adí Clan
https://exhibits.si.edu/portfolio/sculpin-hat-replica/ and see video of Sculpin Hat ceremony: v=y7YzLlbVSN4 and see 2017 Smithsonian article about the 3-D scanning process: https://meilansolly.com/portfolio/this-replica-of-a-tlingit-killer-whale-hat-is-spurring-dialogue-about-digitization/
2017 Sitka Sentinel
https://sitkasentinel.com/7/2012-05-10-22-08-10/local-news/12071-clans-give-views-on-events-of-1867
2015 Juneau Empire Article
http://juneauempire.com/art/2015-11-04/sharing-our-knowledge-conference-highlights-crucial-role-tlingit-elders
2012 Capital City Weekly Article
http://www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/032112/new_971695267.shtml
Video Resources:
2017: Sitka, October
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5JmUC9niijgOtX10j4j-7E7Yg41bpF_Y
2015: Juneau, October
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5JmUC9niijhUlC6VqD_KlphgP8AeBB7v
2013: Juneau, November 7-10
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5JmUC9niijizMbGTDX4vZ3HNDjz9mn9u
2012: Sitka, March 29-April 1
http://mediasite.alaska.edu/Mediasite/Catalog/catalogs/clan/?state=XTjM1Wn1R
2009: Juneau, March 25 – 28, 2009
DVDS http://clanconference.org/mod/page/view.php?id=13
[See link MS Word master DVD list]
Sitka, March 21-25, 2007
DVDs http://clanconference.org/mod/page/view.php?id=8
Links to Books:
1993 Conference papers
“Will the Time Ever Come: A Tlingit Source Book,” by Andy Hope and Thomas Thornton
https://www.amazon.com/Will-Time-Ever-Come-Tlingit/dp/1877962341
2007 Conference papers
“Sharing Our Knowledge: The Tlingit and Their Coastal Neighbors,” by Sergei Kan
http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Sharing-Our-Knowledge,675970.aspx
Other publications
“Haa Léelk’w Hás Aaní Saax’ú / Our Grandparents’ Names on the Land,” by Thomas Thornton
https://www.abebooks.com/Haa-Léelkw-Hás-Aan%C3%AD-Saaxú-Grandparents/16623530742/bd
“A Dangerous Idea: The Alaska Native Brotherhood and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights,” by Peter Metcalfe
https://www.alaska.edu/uapress/browse/detail/index.xml?id=504
Ventriloquism: Keeping the Language Alive. (KTOO-FM news story)
Tlingit ventriloquism, a way to keep the language alive
Links to Programs
- 1993 Haines/Klukwan Program
- 1996 Saxman Program
- 1997 Sitka Program
- 2007 Sitka Program
- 2009 Juneau Program
- 2012 Sitka Program
- 2013 Juneau Program
- 2015 Juneau Program
- 2017 Juneau Program