Tlingit

Geography of Alaska, Alaska became the forty-ninth state in 1959. Alaska is the biggest state in the United States combined by California, Montana, and Texas. It has more ocean coastal then all of United States combined. Alaska extends from Eastern Hemisphere and both the westernmost and easternmost state in united state. The land area is 570,380 square miles (1477,300 km2). In 1967 United States bought Alaska. Frozen water, in the form of glacier ice, covers some 16,000 square miles (41,000…

Alaska became a state in 1867. Alaska’s geography is constantly changing. The size and distribution of Alaska’s population are constantly changing as are the nature and character of the structures they build and the resources they harvest. Alaska is the largest states in The United States, its twice as big as Texas. People from the other states come and visit Alaska, there are different things here in Alaska, theres different animals here such as Polar Bears, Grizzly Bears, Wolf, Fox, Rabbits,…

It’s no secret that many people get memorial tattoos to honor the deceased. For many, it is a way of carrying that special person(s) around with them. These are not normal tattoos since they usually have much thought placed into creating them. I have heard many stories of people that get tattoos commemorating their marriage but then they get an unforeseen divorce. Some people also get tattoos that they regret when they reach a certain age. Memorial tattoos tell stories and preserve important…

plants have and are continuing to be used by every culture around the world. In a town called Sitka, Alaska is a plant well know and held in high regards. It is the plant known as Devil’s Club. It has been used by the Tlingit people the name meaning people of the tides. The Tlingit people have used…

First off, the different language that both tribes spoke. The Dene people, mostly spoke Tlingit, while the Inuit tribes, mostly spoke Inuit, their own language named after them. The tribes were called a different name because it was a different person with a different, and possible more diverse, mindset who created the tribe. Different languages…

During the potlatch ban, Native artwork greatly declined as there was no process of ritual to “baptize” new totems or new art pieces to become at’óow’s, objects made “through ceremonial use and dedication” (Dauenhauer 26, Tlingit At.óow: Traditions and Concepts). Such decline indicates just how intertwined ceremonies are to Native art. Furthermore, the ceremonies themselves become art as certain rituals become vital to societal progression. “Ceremonies and rituals offer validation…

Imagine a creature of black and white. It's skin shiny with a rubber like texture. It dives through the water and comes back up again breaking the surface of the water. Then when you see one of those, you see another one, and then another! Multiple of these creatures emerge from the ocean. They then dart back into the deep blue leaving you wondering what colossal creature was that? That animal was not a creature of mythology but instead a type of whale called an orca. Orcas have amazing…

You feel the cool breeze as winter recedes in the beautiful Alaskan Yukon. As you stand in the breeze you think, “this is the most beautiful place in the world”. Everyone who has visited Alaska has said the same thing, and even the most strict critics have admitted to its splendor. Alaska is an amazing place the history, landscape, wildlife, and the many things to do will show you that Alaska truly is a place of wonder and majesty. Historians still do not know when and how people began to live…

5. The piece is a sculptural self-portrait of the Tlingit/Aleut artist carved from the pages of Under Mount St. Elias: The History and Culture of the Yakutat Tlingut, a ethnographic study of Galanins culture from the mid-twentieth century (Berlo and Phillips 1998, 10-11). Under Mount St. Elias is the culmination…

Emily Carr is one of Canada’s most well known painters but, there was more to her. Emily Carr was born on December thirteenth 1871 in Victoria, British Columbia (Neering, p. 3). Her parents died in her early teenage years (Neering, p. 8) and in 1890, Carr studied art in San Francisco for five years (Neering, p. 12). When she returned to Victoria at twenty- four years old, she taught children’s art classes in a barn studio (Neering, p. 17). Later, in 1899 she travelled to England to study art at…