Big changes are on the horizon for a once small optional Tlingit language and culture program offered by the Juneau School District and Sealaska Heritage Institute. Each year for more than 20 years, ...

Though most students cringe at the thought of a test or quiz, young Tlingit learners actually have been asking for more quizzing. Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is adding to its “Learning Tlingit” ...

Students with the online Tlingit class met every weekday evening in July via Zoom to practice and listen (Corinne Smith/KFSK) On a Wednesday evening in July, students in the new online Tlingit ...

There are only a few hundred Tlingit speakers in the world, according to linguists and researchers. In a world where English is considered the dominant language, Tlingit is endangered, linguistically ...

KETCHIKAN, Alaska — An Alaska man has developed a smartphone app to help people learn the Tlingit language. KRBD radio reported Simon Roberts of Klawock has developed the app for iPhones and Android ...

JUNEAU — The Tlingit language is still changing, as new words are coined for the modern, technological age. The Capital City Weekly reports that newly coined words need to be spread and catch on to be ...

A three-year language mentorship program beginning in Southeast Alaska in August hopes to help revitalize the Tlingit language, classified as on the edge of extinction, by pairing fluent elders with ...

In Tlingit, the phrase “Wooch een yéi jidané” means “cooperation, working together.” For several years, KTOO has worked with the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian people of Southeast Alaska to deepen our ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Army veteran Richard Bean Sr. died without anyone knowing that he and four other long-deceased Alaska Natives had used their Tlingit language to outsmart the Japanese during World ...

Hometown: I am Tlingit Indian from Southeast Alaska. I belong to the Dakl'aweidi Clan (killer whale). I was born and raised in Juneau, AK. The Tlingit art form goes back 10,000 years in Alaska, our ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Tlingit language is still changing, as new words are coined for the modern, technological age. The Capital City Weekly reports that newly coined words need to be spread and ...