As the canoes drew closer ... people spoke of their purposeful presence to connect with families and culture in Tlingit Aaní. A single slender skin boat from the Bering Sea Village of Wales ...

The clan persists through time. Sergei Kan, a noted anthropologist of Tlingit culture, has labeled this phenomenon as a form of "Symbolic Immortality." A clan owns a host of names, and succeeding ...

The Far Out House, the Canoe Prow House ... Land ownership is one of the biggest laws in the Tlingit culture. You did not fish or hunt on somebody else's land without their permission.

The distinctively carved canoe bulged with eight paddlers ... archaeological findings suggest a complex maritime culture at least 10,000 years old. The Tlingit learned to subsist on the ocean.

Should not the Tlingit be the ones to define “subsistence purposes” according to their traditional practices? These are fundamental questions of indigenous cultural knowledge. In their zeal to ...