Posts Tagged ‘Tlingit’
Raven House Mouse Goes to Culture Camp, by Jan Steinbright
Raven House Mouse Goes to Culture Camp, by Jan Steinbright Kagaak, a mouse who has been adopted into a Tlingit clan in Haines, Alaska, stows away on a bus heading up the Chilkoot Valley to a culture camp, learns more about the Tlingit culture, and becomes significantly involved with the annual run of sockeye salmon…
Read MoreRaven House Mouse, by Jan Steinbright
Raven House Mouse, by Jan Steinbright The enchanting story of how a mouse came to live in a Tlingit (Indian) clan house in Haines, Alaska, and became part of the culture. When the mouse finds the Tlingit clan house, he thinks he’s sneaky enough to avoid being caught, but what he doesn’t know is that…
Read MoreThe Bentwood Box, by Nan McNutt
The Bentwood Box, by Nan McNutt Chris, a contemporary 14 yr. old Native American Tlingit boy, apprentices with his uncle who is designing and making a traditional northern Northwest Coast bentwood box. In the process of helping with the box, Chris has an adventure, which changes the course of his life. Nan’s McNutt’s introduction to…
Read MoreRaven House Mouse, by Jan Steinbright
The enchanting story of how a mouse came to live in a Tlingit (Indian) clan house in Haines, Alaska, and became part of the culture. When the mouse finds the Tlingit clan house, he thinks he’s sneaky enough to avoid being caught, but what he doesn’t know is that the tribe leader is watching his…
Read MoreThe Tlingit Indians, by Aurel Krause
In 1881, two German geographers were on their way to the continental United States from the Bering Sea Coast when they came upon a Native population in southeast Alaska that had formed a society far more complex than those of most other North American tribes. Upon return to Germany, Aurel Krause published “The Tlingit Indians.”…
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