Alaska Online With Libraries (OWL) Program

Presenter: Aaron Leggett
Description: Learn about the original people of southcentral Alaska. Join curator Aaron Leggett (Dena’ina) for a tour of "Dena’inaq’ Huch’ulyeshi: The Dena’ina Way of Living" – the first major exhibition about Dena’ina Athabascan culture. Audience Q&A to follow.

For resources from the Dena’ina exhibition, including lesson plans, multimedia and exhibit links, go to Dena’ina Tools for Teachers page on the Anchorage Museum website.

Presenter: Raymond Paneak, Ruth Rulland and Jeff Rasic
Description: The Inupiat have lived in the North Slope since the beginning of time. They were even there hunting mammoths about 12,000 years ago! The Inupiat Heritage Center is opening a new exhibit to showcase the Inupiaq legend of hunting mammoths near Anaktuvuk Pass. Simon Paneak and Elijah Kakinya were two well-known story tellers who both have versions of this very legend. Their stories give cultural meaning and context to the Ice Age fossils that we are displaying from the Ikpikpak River. The Inupiat Heritage Center is honored to invite Raymond Paneak (Paneak's son) and Ruth Rulland (Kakinya's daughter) to share with the public the importance of oral history and memories of their fathers, the great story tellers themselves. Jeff Rasic, Archaologist from Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, has also been invited to talk about the prehistoric and modern use of mammoth ivory to make tools and sculptures.

Presenter: Joanne Elsie Spud, Kaawjeil
Description: Beginning Lingit Language Instructor, Joanne Elsie Spud, Kaawjeil, will introduce easy words and commonly used phrases in a fun and easy learning atmosphere. If you are brave and want to try and say the words you can! But even if you are feeling a little shy, hearing the words and phrases is a very good introduction to the Lingit Language.

Presenter: Sally Burattin
Description: An evening of storytelling with Sally Burattin, a Tlingit elder from Klukwan. Sally will be sharing traditional Tlingit stories from Raven, the messenger bird, to Kooshdakhaa, the land otter man. This video begins with the stories in progress. We regret this technical glitch.

Presenters: Alaska’s Writer Laureate Nora Dauenhauer, Past Poet Laureate Richard Dauenhauer & Others
Description: Bringing the region’s rich history, cultures and traditions alive through creative stories and literature. Features readings and conversation with Tlingit Community Leaders. Sponsored by the Juneau Public Library, Alaska Online with Libraries (OWL), the Institute for Museum & Library Sciences, Petersburg Public Library, and the Petersburg Indian Association.

Presenter: Dr. Anastasia Wiley (SRS Corp, Haines, Alaska)
Description: Discussion of Tlingit place names at a February 21, 2013 event at the Haines Public Library.