Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a lecture series on Raven as Trickster and Cultural Hero by traditional Tlingit and Tsimshian storytellers this month.
The series will end with an academic review of Raven stories by a scholar of Northwest Coast culture and history.
All lectures will be held in-person at noon (Alaska time) at the Walter Soboleff Building in Juneau. SHI will also live stream the series on its YouTube and save the talks on its channel immediately after.
The talks are scheduled as follows:
Tuesday, May 9: Johon Atkinson, Tsimshian
Tuesday, May 16: Fred White, Tlingit, Shangukeidí
Thursday, May 18: William (Joey) Bolton, Tsimshian
Tuesday, May 23: David Kanosh, Tlingit, Deisheetaan
Friday, May 26: Dan Brown, Tlingit, Teikweidí
Tuesday, May 30: David Nelson III, Tsimshian
Thursday, June 1: Thomas Thornton, Ph.D., Kaagwaantaan
SHI is finalizing a manuscript on Raven stories, which will be published by the institute through the University of Washington Press. The book will feature 50 episodes of Raven’s adventures as told by Tlingit storytellers who were documented over many years by the late Richard and Nora Dauenhauer and others. The book will include Lingít transcriptions of the stories with facing English translations.
