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Alaska Arts Confluence to present First Friday with Joe Ordonez

HAINES — The Alaska Arts Confluence in Haines will host a First Friday book signing of “Where Eagles…

Bill Fawcett, 91, speaks during an elders panel discussion on boarding schools during the "Sharing Our Knowledge" conference at Centenial Hall on Friday.

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‘Sharing Our Knowledge’ conference highlights crucial role of Tlingit elders

The full name of last week’s Tlingit Clan Conference, inspired by original organizer Andy Hope III, is “Sharing…

Daphne Wright, standing left, watches as Tlingit speakers demostrate how to play a game similar to "Go Fish" to improve their Tlingit language skills during the "Sharing Our Knowledge" conference at Centennial Hall on Thursday. The conference of Tlingit tribes and clans ran Oct. 28-Nov. 1.

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Haa Saax’ú, Haa Latseení (Our Names, Our Strength)

Salmon streams, herring hotspots, and points, islands and settlements around Southeast Alaska have carried Tlingit names for thousands…

Downtown Juneau streetscape.

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Art in Unusual Places

Art in Unusual Places The CCW welcomes reader-submitted images of art in unusual or unexpected places. Photographers of…

Mark Vinsel and Dianne Anderson will be the featured artists at the Juneau Artists Gallery.

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November First Friday Art Walk

Here’s a look at what’s going on for the First Friday Art Walk in downtown Juneau this week,…

A still from "This Changes Everything."

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Film Series raises awareness in advance of Paris climate talks

When international leaders meet in Paris at the end of this month to discuss a universal agreement on…

Alaska Skaflestad and Randy Roberts are the Hoonah high school students involved in the coastal subsistence survey project, interviewing ten resource users about coastal subsistence in their home community.

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Coastal subsistence study: The faces behind the findings

In October, Capital City Weekly’s Mary Catharine Martin reported on an impressive region-wide effort to document and understand…

Tlingit elder Marie Olson listens to recordings gathered as part of the Juneau LIbrary's ongoing Story Corps project, which focuses us Alaska Native experiences.

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StoryCorps excerpt: ‘I want my son to know who he is’

As part of last week’s Tlingit Clan Conference at Centennial Hall, the Juneau Public Library set up a…

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SHI to sponsor lectures for Native American Heritage Month

Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor its annual noon lecture series to celebrate Native American Heritage Month and Walter…

Writer Ernestine Hayes, author of "Blonde Indian," reads from her forthcoming memoir, whose working title is "The Dao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir," during the "Shaped by the North" panel discussion in Juneau on Sept. 24.

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Book review: Ernestine Hayes’ ‘Blonde Indian

“Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir” by Ernestine Hayes. 173 pages, 2006, University of Arizona Press, $16.95  …

Found shoes at the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau. One of the book's five sections, into which this photo fits, is "relics."

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‘Southeast Alaska: A Photographic Passage’

In “Southeast Alaska: A Photographic Passage,” float houses and boat harbors appear through mist; oyster catchers stare through…

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Rasmuson Foundation announces grants

The Rasmuson Foundation has announced $826,634 in third-quarter grants across the state, and the list includes several in…

Some of Get Felt's puppet performers pose with their humans, Stephani Thompson and Elizabeth Westermann. Get Felt is a Seattle-based improv duo that will be performing in Juneau Nov. 13 and 14.

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Seattle-based improv duo to perform Nov. 13-14

Get Felt, a Seattle-based improv duo featuring Stephani Thompson and Elizabeth Westermann, will perform at the Hangar Ballroom…

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Alaska Community Foundation announces $164,000 in grants

The Alaska Community Foundation has announced 13 grant awards totaling $164,000 to meet basic needs in 10 communities…

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Shrinking yourself

I can usually tell if I’m going to catch fish or not. That’s not spoken out of arrogance,…

Stuffed poblano peppers.

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Meals with Midgi: Stuffed Poblano Peppers

In my business I walk. I walk a lot. As I guide visitors along Juneau’s scenic waterway and…

Small ore buckets lie strewn around the Amalga mill site.

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Juneau’s Hidden History: Amalga, Juneau’s ghost town

Deep in the Tongass National Forest sit the remains of the once profitable gold mining town of Amalga.…

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Fish Factor: Plummeting prices, flushed meds

Alaska’s 2015 salmon season produced the second largest harvest ever, but rock bottom prices yielded the lowest pay…

Venus transits the sun as seen from the Anchorage Museum in 2012.

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On Writing: Running out of ink

Editor’s note: Michelle Bonnet Hale, Jim Hale’s partner, is Jim’s guest columnist for “On Writing” this week. The…

Writers Weir: Ski Bummin'

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Writers Weir: Ski Bummin’

Ski Bummin’  Breaths of wintery-cool airAnd I am antsy for a powder yearAs snowflakes floatIn hesitant freefallLaying thruwayFor…