Big changes are on the horizon for a once small optional Tlingit language and culture program offered by the Juneau School District and Sealaska Heritage Institute. Each year for more than 20 years, ...

Students with the online Tlingit class met every weekday evening in July via Zoom to practice and listen (Corinne Smith/KFSK) On a Wednesday evening in July, students in the new online Tlingit ...

A three-year language mentorship program beginning in Southeast Alaska in August hopes to help revitalize the Tlingit language, classified as on the edge of extinction, by pairing fluent elders with ...

To X̱’unei Lance Twitchell, this phrase from the Native language Lingít speaks to the connection between the language and the land where the Tlingit people have historically lived. In a March 16 class ...

The Tlingit language is such an elaborate language. It needs to be lived: It is a living language — Vivian Mork Yéilk’ I was afraid. I sat down in the small chair, my knees bent upward. I set a few ...