NATIVE CULTURE

Day 1 – 10/11: Tlingit Repatriation in Southeast Alaska: Awakening our Ancestral Spirituality

Association on American Indian Affairs | October 28, 2024

Gail Dabaluz, Tlingit/Haida/Tsimshian Tribe Yéil (Raven) Moiety, University of Alaska Fairbanks; and Judy Ramos, Tlingit Tribe Yéil (Raven) Moiety, University of Alaska
This presentation shares the Tlingit traditional structure, providing the spiritual foundation to receive our Ancestors’ Remains and Belongings through NAGPRA. We collaborate and rely upon the wisdom of our culture bearers, Tribal and museum staff to repatriate Tlingit at.oowú (objects). These are Sacred objects and practices that embody and memorialize Ancestral experiences and claims to territory, resources, and relationships. Objects appear only at our koo.eex’ (ceremonial structure).