...location of Ketchikan). The Tlingit continued to expand northward until they ran into the Russians along the Mount Saint Elias shore in the eighteenth century.I believe we, who share Southeast Alaska with these people, are truly blessed...
...called "What Have We Become?" he sculpted culturally significant books, such as Frederica De Laguna's "Under Mount Saint Elias," an ethnographic history of the Yakutat Tlingit, into masks. One bears his profile, others follow more traditional...
...and Cole Zulai.Yakutat HoopsHow does Yakutat stay so competitive? Check out their competition at the upcoming Mount Saint Elias Classic Basketball Tournament Jan. 1-7. The boys/girls five-team double elimination bracket features teams...
...is now believed to be the west side of Prince of Wales Island. On roughly July 16, Bering and his crew sighted Mount Saint Elias. Both ships turned back toward Russia to carry the word of their find. However Bering's ship was wrecked on what...
...Laguna's masterwork, "Under Mount Saint Elias, The History and Culture of...as de Laguna did with "Under Mount Saint Elias," is well worth making, Guedon...was not finished." "Under Mount Saint Elias," published by the Smithsonian...
...winters and stayed there by himself for one or two months. His search for the northern lights first took him to Mount Saint Elias, near Wrangell. "When I was in Juneau, I asked myself what was the most beautiful thing I could shoot," he...
...De Laguna later traveled to Yakutat. Her studies turned into her 1972 masterwork, the three-volume "Under Mount Saint Elias: The History and Culture of the Yakutat Tlingit." Only 200 copies of the book were released in 1972. One of de...
...traditions. In speaking about the release of the second edition of Frederica de Laguna's masterwork, "Under Mount Saint Elias: The history and culture of the Yakutat Tlingit," Guedon described de Laguna's wholehearted personal and professional...
...specialist and surfer, rides a wave off Yakutat, with Mount Saint Elias in the background. PHOTO BY RE JOHNSON surfin...accessible beaches with a view of 18,000-foot Mount Saint Elias. Yakutat's surf, of course, has been around...
...45-5:15 p.m., ANB Hall: Keex Kwaan (Kake), Mount Saint Elias (Yakutat), Sheet Ka Kwaan (Sitka), Haida Wave...Sheet `Ka Kwaan (Sitka), Ku Tee Yas (Seattle), Mount Saint Elias (Yakutat). 6:45-11 p.m., ANB Hall...
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