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The Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska say they’re still trying to reclaim their heritage from the Denver Art Museum, 34 years after the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation ...
Surrounded by hundreds of Tlingit Indians brandishing ritual maces and clubs Monday, representatives of five major American museums happily turned over a priceless cache of Tlingit artifacts taken … ...
Yesterday, more than a dozen members of Alaska's Tlingit Tribe gathered on the deck of the Evergreen State -- the ferry that plies the waters between West Seattle and Vashon Island and has become ...
According to its website, the AFN currently represents more than 140,000 Indigenous people in Alaska. Now, that number is decreased by Tlingit and Haida’s more than 35,000 tribal citizens.
The Tlingit Indians assert that they have owned and lived in Southeast Alaska since time immemorial. The archaeological records attest to a minimum of 10, 000 years of occupation. Living in an ...
The Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 undoubtedly saved some species from extinction. Others, including sea otters, were reintroduced to Southeast Alaska in the 1960s and have rebounded to the ...
A federal advisory committee has recommended that the University of Pennsylvania return a trove of native artifacts it acquired nearly 90 years ago from a clan of Tlingit people in southeast Alaska.
I recently got a chance to work on a station for the Tlingit Tribe in Yakutat, Alaska. The station is being launched by Gloria Benson, who works in social services and community health for the tribe.
Visitors to the Denver Art Museum look at “Drum (Gaaw),” a cultural item from the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, on display in the Northwest Coast and Alaska Native Art Galleries ...
Chalyee Éesh Richard Peterson, president of Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, speaks at the 90th annual Tribal Assembly in Juneau on Wednesday, April 18, 2025.