Best part of the day was watching our elders dance in to kick off our Tlingit & Haida 89th Tribal Assembly

Filled my heart to brim and then some! 🥰

We were officially sworn-in soon after

handed out fish eggs today! these were sent to us by tlingit & haida traditional foods program

just casually made my husband a vest today. unfortunately when the pattern says XL, it does not mean XL in tlingit size 🙄

Tlingit People🪶 of the PNW US/Canada

Armor of Wood

Practiced Slavery (rare in NA)

1802 - 1804 they fought a war with Russia🇷🇺

Thread on the Tlingit War🧵🧭🪶

Excited to say Tlingit & Haida has created a Fentanyl Task Force that will include a representative from each of our 21 communities… including Washington State 🙂🫶🏼

(guess who wants the Washington State seat… hehe)

Dzánti K'ihéeni (Tlingit) #nikon #alaska #photography #thenohero

Congratulations to NACF artists, Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Unangax̂) and Dyani White Hawk (Siċaŋġu Lakota) being named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows!

For more information and a full list of awardees:
gf.org/announcements

#NativeArt #GuggenheimFellows #NACFArtists

You can believe I believe tribally facts #Tlingit &. best African Americans that created #Southern ways that are the way ✔️™️

This escalation let to a Russian response.

The Tlingit Shaman, Stoonook, saw this was coming and urged the Tlingit to prepare defenses.

They were only successful in attacking the Fort as the Cannon-Armed Ship was absent.

(Tlingit Shaman pictured, but not Stoonook)

'My own purpose ... was to look into the #Aleut and #Tlingit Indians as well as the #Haidas . I was particularly very interested in their stories and legends concerning the Great Flood, having found this legend in almost any primitive race I have met.' #LRonHubbard

In a classic misunderstanding between Europeans and Natives, the Russians built a fort on Sitka Island on land they 'purchased' from the Natives, 1799

The Tlingit did not think they were selling the land permanently. They Destroyed the Fort 1802.

Almost all the inhabitants

The Cat of Tlingit Origins. ✡️ ...yes

The Russians showed up two years later and offered terms

The Tlingit refused to stall & man/arm the new fort with gunpowder and Fighters

The fort was made of 1000 spruce logs, 14 buildings, and included a palisade wall

The Fort controlled the mouth of the River

The Russians

The Cat of Tlingit Origins. ✡️ I HATE poppers

At an impasse, the Russians began shelling the fort until night fell.

Without Gunpowder reserves lost by a cannonball shot so accurately Babe Ruth would be surprised, the Tlingit had to stall and come up with a new strategy.

Continued Shelling could beat them down gradually,

The Tlingit and Haida people of the northern coast of the PNW

They built totem poles, long houses of milled wood, and are amongst the most societally complex of NA indigenous peoples

The People’s Champ Tlingit and Haida has a food truck

You think your mom loves you but did she buy you a cup by Tlingit artist Alison Bremner just bc she thought how much you’d love it if she did?