Sharing Our Knowledge: A Conference of Tlingit Tribes and Clans

Available courses

• Sharing Our Knowledge: 2012 Clan Conference

  • Facilitator: Peter Metcalfe
  • Facilitator: Kathy Ruddy

  March 29 - April 1, 2012
  Harrigan Hall
  Sitka, Alaska

  “Sharing Our Knowledge” is a multi-disciplinary conference that includes artists, academics, students and other learners meeting with Alaska Native tradition bearers, elders, and fluent speakers to discuss subjects such as linguistics, archaeology, art and music, Alaska Native history, museum studies, cultural anthropology, indigenous law and protocols, fisheries, and traditional ecological knowledge.

  For information:
  metcom@gci.net
  Tlingit Readers, Inc., 3740 N. Douglas Hwy, Juneau, AK 99801

  

• Sharing Our Knowledge: 2009 Clan Conference

  The 2009 theme, “Haa Shkalneekx’í Wooshteen Kanaxtulaneegí: Telling Our Stories” highlights the importance of oratory and writing to modern Tlingit culture. Other sessions and presentations may focus on a wide variety of topics relating to Tlingit culture.

  

• Sharing our Knowledge: 2007 Clan Conference

  This was the first such gathering in a decade. Earlier conferences were held in Haines/Klukwan (1993), Sitka (1995), Ketchikan (1996), and Sitka (1997), reports Andrew Hope III, the leading force behind the previous gatherings. Hope was joined this year by curator Steve Henrikson (University of Alaska/Alaska State Museum) and anthropologist Sergei Kan (Dartmouth College), who served as co-organizers.