Calvin Wilson sings during a processional and grand entrance for Celebration in Juneau on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) More than 1,500 Indigenous dancers from across Southeast Alaska ...
A get-together of nearly 1,600 dancers, their family and friends, and others sharing their heritage hardly qualifies as a small intimate gathering. But Leandrea Makaily, who’s attended all but two ...
JUNEAU — One of Alaska’s largest cultural festivals drew crowds to Juneau this week for dancing, art, fashion, stories and more. Celebration, a four-day festival of the Indigenous people of Southeast ...
Avery Herrman-Sakamoto’s first canoe journey was as one of five paddlers from Petersburg in a traditional Tlingit yaakw that joined a Wrangell group making a multi-day paddle to Juneau for this week’s ...
JUNEAU — By the time the paddlers pulled their long wooden canoes toward the beach in Auke Bay, more than 300 people were cheering and chanting them in. The rowers came from across Southeast Alaska’s ...