SHI TO SPONSOR FALL LECTURE SERIES

Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a free fall lecture series on topics ranging from clan crests, lost Alaskans, historical trauma in Alaska Native peoples and whether there should be a constitutional convention.

All lectures will be at the Walter Soboleff Building in Juneau and live streamed on SHI’s YouTube channel at noon Alaska time and saved to the institute’s channel immediately after.

September 8

Lecture: An Alaska Native Memoir: Our Lives Are Stories Telling Themselves by Ernestine Hayes
September 13

Lecture: How the Chookaneidí Clan Earned the Rights to Use the Devilfish/Octopus as a Crest by Fred Saat-Kaa Fulmer
September 15

Lecture: T’ak Ḵdeintaan Clan and Origin of Crests by Ken Grant
September 20

Lecture: Shall There Be a Constitutional Convention? by Bruce Botelho
September 22

Lecture: Language Revitalization by Lance X̱’unei Twitchell
September 27

Lecture: Sukteeneidí Totem Poles by Ed Thomas
September 28

Lecture: Voices of the Ancestors: Inquiries Concerning Tlingit Singing at Yakutat in 1791 by Steve Langdon, Maria Williams, and Judy Ramos
October 4

Lecture: Epigenetics and Historical Trauma in Alaska Native Peoples by Riphan Malhi
October 6

Lecture: Morningside Hospital: The Lost Alaskans by Niesje Steinkruger and Eric Cordingley
October 13

Lecture: Yanyeidí Clan Origin and Crests by Lillian Petershoare
October 25

Lecture: Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Wolf by Steve Langdon
October 27

Lecture: The National Academy of Sciences by Thomas Thornton
Date TBA

Lecture: History of TeiḴweidí Clan by Dan Brown

Sealaska Heritage Institute is a private nonprofit founded in 1980 to perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska. Its goal is to promote cultural diversity and cross-cultural understanding through public services and events. SHI also conducts social scientific and public policy research that promotes Alaska Native arts, cultures, history and education statewide. The institute is governed by a Board of Trustees and guided by a Council of Traditional Scholars, a Native Artist Committee and a Southeast Regional Language Committee.

CONTACT: Kathy Dye, SHI Media and Publications Deputy Director, 907.321.4636,