Across the state, many Alaskans are united by their love of berries. At Petersburg’s Rainforest Festival, a traditional food and medicine educator taught attendees how to propagate local berries in their community.
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With no large-scale tanneries in Southeast Alaska, hunters have few options to continue their traditional cultural practices of skin-sewing sea otters.
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Friends, family and community members gathered near the Petersburg Indian Association’s Hallingstad-Peratrovich Building on June 28 to celebrate the town’s first annual Amy Hallingstad Day, honoring a Tlingit woman who shaped Petersburg’s history in the 20th century.
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The harbormaster says the animal had been snapping at people and pets, stalking them as they walked the docks.
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Until recently, 24-year-old YaKunda.ein Avery Herrman Sakamoto hadn’t spent much time in a canoe. Then she signed up to paddle more than 100 miles through Southeast Alaska’s inside waters from Petersburg to Juneau. She joined dozens of paddlers heading north to Celebration, the largest gathering of Tlingít , Haida, and Tsimshian peoples in the world. Some of the paddlers started in Ketchikan, others were from Prince of Wales Island, or Wrangell. A few came up from the Lower 48 to make the trip.
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Six canoes holding dozens of pullers landed in Petersburg Wednesday evening. Tribal citizens, locals, and tourists filled Petersburg’s drive-down dock to greet the travelers, Tlingít robes and raincoats wrapped tight against the wind and intermittent rain.
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Tribal Council President Cris Morrison speaking to members of Petersburg’s Borough Assembly...
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The program “Thru the Cultural Lens” is run by Sealaska Heritage Institute. It’s been in some of Juneau’s secondary schools for about seven years but this year it’s expanding to five K-12 school districts in smaller communities in the region.
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