Native American, Alaska Native and American Indian Celebrities
Indigenous Celebrities of Turtle Island Honoring all Turtle Island Nations, People and their Allies
Khu.éex’ – Downtown Summer Sounds
Downtown Summer Sounds, Parks & Public Spaces
August 29, 2024 4:30PM — 6:00PM
Occidental Square (Seattle, Wa)
Downtown Summer Sounds (Website)
Khu.éex’ - 'Canoe Song' is #32 in
Get a sneak peek at many of the featured artists for this year’s Downtown Summer Sounds
The new album Siyáadlan is now available on streaming services, Bandcamp and on CD on the Khu.éex' website.
Learn more and listen to the first two singles now! https://khueex.bandcamp.com/
Larry McNeil’s 'Raven Dreamt About Light' ... Foto Forum Santa Fe ... August 9th - October 18th, 2024
Join us at Foto Forum Santa Fe, Friday, August 9th from 5-7p for the opening reception of Larry McNeil’s Raven Dreamt About Light. The artist will be in attendance and deliver a lecture discussing the work at 5pm. 'Raven Dreamt About Light' will be on view through October 18th, 2024
FOTO FORUM SANTA FE (Facebook)
Larry McNeil (Website)
Featured 2024 Summer Subsistence Photos
Nicholas Galanin shared on Instagram captioned - Smoked and ready to pressure cook
nicholasgalanin Yéil Ya-Tseen (Instagram)
Tlingit & Haida on Instagram - Kelp harvesting and preservation class on Prince of Wales Island. Gunalchéesh, Háw’aa to Real Tradish
for hosting the preservation portion of the class where students learned to make kelp salsa and kelp pickles.
Tlingit & Haida (Instagram)
Dakhká khwaán from the Yukon Lead Group for Celebration 2024 in Juneau. (Photo Leigh Anne Gubatayao CBC)
Dakhká khwaán Lead Group for Celebration 2024 Grand Entrance SHI live stream of - Celebration 2024 | Day 1 (1:51:16 / 4:12:30)
Sealaska Heritage Institute's live stream of - Celebration 2024 | Day 2
Sealaska Heritage Institute's live stream of - Celebration 2024 | Day 3
Sealaska Heritage Institute's live stream of - Celebration 2024 | Day 4
Full schedule of this week’s events, visit
https://sealaskaheritage.org/shi-celebration-programs-juneau-alaska/
Sealaska Heritage Institute (Official Website) ... Sealaska Heritage Institute (Facebook)
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Tlingit & Haida on TikToK video link The Git Hoan Dancers
Celebration 2024 opens 'stronger than ever' | Juneau Empire
'A huge thing for us': Dakhká Khwaán Dancers from Yukon lead dance group at Juneau Celebration (CBC News)
For Celebration ’s lead dance group, the gathering was a chance to reconnect with coastal relatives by Yvonne Krumrey, KTOO
Photos: Juneau’s four-day festival honors Southeast Alaska’s Indigenous cultures by Marc Lester (ADN)
Mother and daughter’s spruce root hat wins Celebration’s juried arts show by Yvonne Krumrey, KTOO
Toddlers strut their Southeast Alaska regalia at Celebration by Clarise Larson, KTOO
Small on stage, giants in legacy for participants in Celebration’s toddler regalia review | Juneau Empire
SHI selects formline design by Nick Foote/G̱at X̱wéech for Celebration by Danelle Kelly (Ketchikan Daily)
Áak’w Rock bringing another ‘Side Stage’ to accompany this week’s Celebration | Juneau Empire
Celebration 2024 mixes decades of tradition with new events | Juneau Empire
Photos: Git Hoan brings stories to life in dance and art during Celebration | Juneau Empire
Dancers parade through downtown on last day of Celebration | Juneau Empire
Celebration kicks off with yaakw landings in Juneau by Clarise Larson & Yvonne Krumrey, KTOO
Canoe landing for Celebration Photo courtesy of Trina Redner - Ketchikan Daily News
Five canoes making 90-mile journey to Celebration in Juneau by Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News
Canoes journeying to Celebration welcomed in Petersburg by Hannah Flor (KFSK Community Radio)Canoe Journey Welcome - Photo Olivia Rose - Petersburg Pilot
Combat veterans find unity during week long paddle journey to Celebration by Colette Czarnecki (KFSK Community Radio)
Canoes making 150-mile journey from Wrangell, other Southeast communities to Celebration | Juneau Empire
Paddle to Celebration provides a source of deeper connection By Becca Clark - Wrangell Sentinel
Inside Kasaan’s preparations for 250-mile canoe voyage to Juneau for Celebration by Jack Darrell, KRBD - Ketchikan (KTOO)One People Canoe Society Members (Facebook - Public)
Tlingit & Haida on TikTok ... Tlingit & Haida (Official)
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Tlingit & Haida on TikTok video link - Celebration is here!
The Mount Saint Elias Dancers from Yakutat perform while waiting for the Grand Entrance to begin.
#Tlingit #Haida #AlaskaNative #Indigenous #Celebration2024
Artist Dakaxeen Mehner shared on Facebook photos of his family at 2024 Celebration and Áak’w Rock's 'Side Stage'
Khu.éex' released their new album on June 7th during Celebration 2024
The new album is now available on streaming services, Bandcamp and on CD on the Khu.éex' website.
Learn more and listen to the first two singles now! https://khueex.bandcamp.com/
Musically, Siyáadlan is a guitar-centered album highlighting new vocalists Sondra Segundo and Air Jazz alongside founding member Gene Tagaban.
Music on this new album interweaves influences of Malian desert blues, Thom Bell arrangements,
and cinematic imagery of David Lynch and Michael Mann with Haida and Tlingit hand drum songs.
Screen capture - Jennie Wheeler and Jennifer Younger won Best of Show at Celebration’s juried arts show
for their spruce root hat called Dancing in the Summer Rain. (47:25 / 4:12:30 of video)
This is from the Sealaska Heritage Institute's video Juried Art Show Awards Ceremony link (14:07 / 4:12:30 of Video)
Screen capture - Color Guard Southeast Alaska Native Veterans 2024 Celebration in Juneau Alaska.
This is from the Sealaska Heritage Institute's video link - Celebration 2024 - Day 1 ( 1:44.22 - 4:12:30 of video)
Planet Alaska shared on Facebook - Canoe Landing Juneau Alaska, One People Canoe Society(Screen capture)
One People Canoe Society Members (Facebook - Public)
Tlingit & Haida on TikTok
Tlingit & Haida on TikTok - One Canoe People
The One People Canoe Society paddlers put on their finest regalia for the final leg of the journey from Thane to Dzantik'i Héeni (Downtown Juneau).
#Tlingit #Haida #Indigenous #AlaskaNative #CanoeJourney #JourneyToCelebration
One People Canoe Society Members (Facebook - Public)
Tim Ackerman shared on Facebook - The journey of a hundred miles in red cedar canoes to celebration has started.
Photos by Tim Ackerman
Tlingit & Haida on TikTok - Canoe Journey 2024 Leaving Kake
Sending love to all of the paddlers and support teams making the #CanoeJourney to Celebration in Juneau! #Tlingit #Haida #AlaskaNative
#Indigenous #JourneyToCelebration
Paddlers soon set sail for 150-nautical mile journey to Juneau for Celebration this week
by Colette Czarnecki (KSTK- Stikine Radio )
An estimated sixteen people from Wrangell and Petersburg are about to paddle north to Juneau for the bi-annual festival. They’re not the only ones paddling though. Approximately 10 other yaakw’s – or traditional canoes – from other communities will paddle too.
Featured Tlingit & Haida on TikTok
Tlingit & Haida on TikTok ... Tlingit & Haida (Official)
Screen capture left - Celebration preparation! Tlingit & Haida did a test launch of one of the Tribe's three canoes at Auke Lake.
Staff and tribal citizens will paddle the canoes from Kake to Juneau for the 2024 Canoe Journey and Celebration gathering.
T&H TikTok link - Celebration preparation!
Screen Capture right - The paddle to Celebration starts with cold water rescue training! Public Safety Employee Services Coordinator Rhonda Butler says with Alaska’s frigid waters, it’s important for people to know how to stay calm if they fall in and for their crew to be prepared to pull them in. #Tlingit #Haida #AlaskaNative #Indigenous #RoadToCelebration2024 #WaterSafety
T&H TikTok link - Man Overboard!
Did you know Tlingit & Haida sponsors a co-ed softball team? Healthy tribes make healthy communities
and we’re excited to see our staff hit the field again this year. Good luck!
T&H TikTok link - Did you know Tlingit & Haida sponsors a co-ed softball team?
Showing up and showing off at the President’s Awards Banquet and Education Fundraiser
after the 89th Annual Tribal Assembly. #Tlingit #Haida #AlaskaNative #Indigenous #NativeFashion
T&H TikTok link - Showing up and showing off at the President’s Awards Banquet and Education Fundraiser
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