A timeworn Tlingit shaman's box drum dating back to at least the late 1800s may get new life. The nonprofit organization Museums Alaska just granted Sealaska Heritage Institute $3,868 to get the ...

In the basement of the Sealaska Heritage Institute is very old box drum belonging to the Mount Fairweather (Snail) house of the T’akdeintaan clan in Hoonah. In mid-October, it got some long-needed ...

The first Tlingit language immersion program has ended after a week of activities in Sitka. The Sitka Sentinel reports that things wrapped up Saturday for the 63 language speakers that traveled from ...

JUNEAU, Alaska - One class of Gastineau Elementary School students is in the process of making deer hide drums as part of a multi-disciplined history lesson. Fourth- and fifth-grade teacher Shgen ...

Da-ka-xeen Mehner, “Call and Respond” (detail) (2014), wood and rawhide, 20 x 20 x 8 in (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) In the south gallery of MoCNA’s location in downtown Santa Fe, ...