LibGuides: Moananuiākea: ʻĀlaka/Alaska

Our Connection to ʻĀlaka

The Building of Hawaiʻiloa - Polynesian Voyaging Society
The Moʻolelo of the Hawaiʻiloa waʻa and its connection to Tlingit and Haida tribes of Alaska.
The Aloha Connection: Alaska and Hawai’i are Linked - Alaska Magazine
Native Hawaiian Seamen's Accounts of the 1876 Arctic Whaling Disaster and the 1877 Massacre of Alaskan Natives from Cape Prince of Wales - Hawaiian Journal of History

General Info & History

Tribal Members, Military Hold Historic Meeting on Bombardments

Angoon, Kake, Wrangell seeking reconciliation, healing

Feb. 6, 2020

Indigenous Peoples of Alaska

Traditional Tlingit Country Map
Tlingit tribes, clans, and clan houses

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Moananuiākea - Kaʻiwakīloumoku - Kamehameha Schools Connection

Alaska
Learn more about Alaska, its tribes, languages, and cultures.

Languages

Alaska Native Language Center - Overview of various Alaska Native languages

Lingít Yoo X̲ʼatángi
Learn the Tlingit language
Video - Useful Phases in Tlingit
Learn the Tlingit language on YouTube from Sealaska Heritage Institute
Ts'msyen Sm'algyax Language Authority
Learn the Tsimshian language
Video - Useful Phases in Tsimshian
Learn the Tsimshian language on YouTube from Sealaska Heritage Institute
X̱aat Kíl The Haida Language
Learn the Haida language
Video - Useful Phases in Haida Language
Learn the Haida language on YouTube from Sealaska Heritage Institute
The Sound of the Haida Language
From Cascadia Department of Bioregion
Tlingit, Haida, & Tsimshian Language Resources

Language Books @ Midkiff

Aadé Sʼáxt' Haa Jeet Kawdihayi Yé (How Devil's Club Came to Be) by Miranda Rose Kaagwéil Worl; Michaela Goade (Illustrator)
Call Number: 497.28 WOR 2020

Publication Date: 2020/2016

Click on the title to listen to this book in the Tlingit language.
Am'ala, A Tsimshian Story by Frank Henry Kaash Katasse (Editor); David Lang (Illustrator)
Call Number: 497.28 KAT 2020

Publication Date: 2020/2017

Click on the title to listen to this book in the Tsimshian language.
Nang Jáadaa Sgáana ʼLáanaa aa Isdáayaan (The Woman Carried Away by Killer Whales) by Janine Gibbons (Illustrator)
Call Number: 497.28 SEA 2021

Publication Date: 2021/2017

Click on the title to listen to this book in the Haida language.
Nax̱too.aat! (Let's Go!, A Harvest Story) by Hannah Lindoff; Michaela Goade (Illustrator)
Call Number: 497.28 LIN 2020

Publication Date: 2020/2017

Click on the title to listen to this book in the Tlingit language.

Culture

Video Lecture Series of Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian languages, cultures and history.
Presented by Sealaska Heritage Institute
History & Heritage, Storytelling, Language and How-To videos of various Alaska Native tribes.
Presented by Alaska Native Heritage Center.

"People of the Cedar" features many tribes and traditions that have evolved from community life in the forest: carving, basket making, weaving, Cedar clothing and gathering.

Northwest Coast Formline Art

Video: Native Art Interview with David Boxley (Tsimshian Artist)

Chilkat Weaving - Lily Hope: Tlingit Weaver of Chilkat and Ravenstail

Handwoven, 2020

Video: Lily Hope Chilkat Weaver

Video: Weaving a Whale, a Chilkat Robe

Spruce Root Basketry by Sheldon Haines Museum

Video: The Artistry of Tlingit Weaving

Click here to watch traditional Alaska Native dancing from Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian tribes

Ethnomathematics

Resources Available at Midkiff

Haa Ḵusteeyí, Our Culture by Nora Marks Dauenhauer; Richard Dauenhauer
Call Number: 305.897 HAA 1994

Publication Date: 1994
Haa Shuká, Our Ancestors by Nora M. Dauenhauer (Editor); Richard Dauenhauer (Editor)
Call Number: 398.208 DAU 1987

Publication Date: 1987

Traditional stories of Tlingit Native Peoples of Southeast Alaska
Dictionary of Tlingit by Keri Edwards (Editor)
Call Number: 497.2 EDW 2009

Publication Date: 2009
Alaskan Haida Phrasebook by Erma Lawrence; Jordan Lachler (Editor)
Call Number: 497.28 LAW 2010

Publication Date: 2010
Tlingit Reference Guide, Verbs, Grammar, Location & Direction, Concepts by X̱'unei Lance Twitchell
Call Number: 497.28 TWI 2019

Publication Date: 2019
Qayaqs & Canoes, Native ways of knowing by Steinbright, Jan; Alaska Native Heritage Center
Call Number: 623.829 St3q

Publication Date: 2001
Northwest Coast Indian Art by Bill Holm; Burke Burke Museum (Series edited by)
Call Number: 704.039 HOL 2015

Publication Date: 2015
Northwest Indigenous Arts by Robert E. Stanley Sr.
Call Number: 704.039 STA 2002

Publication Date: 2002
Preston Singletary, Raven and the Box of Daylight by Miranda Belarde-Lewis; John Drury
Call Number: 748.092 SIN 2019

Publication Date: 2019

Art exhibit featuring the Tlingit story of the Raven
Haa Tuwunáagu yís, for Healing Our Spirit by Nora Marks Dauenhauer; Richard Dauenhauer
Call Number: 897.2 HAA 1990

Publication Date: 1990
The Wolf and the Raven by Viola E. Garfield; Linn A. Forrest
Call Number: 970.4 Gar

Publication Date: 1961
Haa Léelk'w Hás Aaní Saax'ú / Our Grandparents' Names on the Land by Thomas F. Thornton (Editor)
Call Number: 979.8 HAA 2012

Publication Date: 2012
Children of the Midnight Sun by Tricia Brown; Roy Corral (By (photographer)); Larry Merculieff (Foreword by)
Call Number: 979.800497 B81c

Publication Date: 1998
The Tlingit by Wallace M. Olson
Call Number: 979.800497 Ol8t

Publication Date: 1997