...separate study guide for educators and students. Hayes' original story was written in English, then presented to linguist and teacher Roby Littlefield and elder Ethel Makinen of Sitka, who prepared a translation into Tlingit, with additional assistance...

...first lecture will focus on the relationship among the Tlingit, Eyak and Athabaskan languages, said Leer, a linguist and teacher at the Alaska Native Language Center in Fairbanks and a professor of Alaska Native languages at the University...