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Photos: A grand entrance indeed

Maka Mongure of the Mt. St. Elias Dancers of Yakutat dances off the stage in Centennial Hall during Celebration 2012's Grand Entrance on Thursday.

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Local
A Special Anniversary Hike

...soaking in the sun and talking about our upcoming marriage. We'd just survived a three week climbing expedition to the Mt. St. Elias range earlier in the summer, involving terrifying avalanches, collapsing snow cornices, and a raging snowstorm that...

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Juneau JV girls finish undefeated at Yakutat

The Juneau-Douglas High School girls junior varsity basketball squad finished undefeated at last weekend's Mount St. Elias Classic tournament in Yakutat.

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/122203/spo_jvgirls.shtml
Sports
Photo: Toll from another time

...Bering and Aleksei Chirikov were separated in bad weather in June 1741 and never regrouped. Bering sighted and named Mt. St Elias and landed briefly on Kayak Island in July. After being shipwrecked in the Commander Islands on the voyage home, Bering...

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Neighbors
Youth light up cultural festival

...allow cool air inside as people stood in the aisles and shouted encouragement or clapped along with the drummers. The Mt. St. Elias Dancers took the stage next and dancing continued until nearly midnight. The dancing began again early Saturday morning...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060808/loc_288002195.shtml
Juneau's Natives welcome guests

...from around the region prepared for months before traveling to Juneau to participate. George Ramos, leader of the Mt. St. Elias Dancers, said about 70 people from the Yakutat group worked on four new songs created for the event. The group was...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060408/loc_286196833.shtml
Lead group unveils new dance today

...during Celebration 2008 by the Mt. St. Elias Dancers from Yakutat. According...groups dancing in Juneau, the Mt. St. Elias Dancers started practicing months...creatures on the boy's face. The Mt. St. Elias Dancers organized in 1955 with...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060608/loc_287112641.shtml
Empire editorial: It's been a couple of good weeks

...attracted thousands of participants and observers. It offered a look at a 100-year-old dance resurrected by the Mt. St. Elias Dancers from Yakutat. And it posed a unique opportunity for Dr. Brian Kemp of Washington State University. Kemp...

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Juneau Empire Online Archive Inside: Reaching out to save a heritage 6/7/98

... Back to archive page Home Sunday, June 7, 1998 photo: Inside Darin Bremner performs with the Mt. St. Elias Dancers in the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall on Thursday MICHAEL PENN / THE JUNEAU EMPIRE Reaching out to save...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060798/insideceleb.html
Perpetuating the CULTURE

...Xoon'i), 19, who dances with the Mt. St. Elias Dancers from Yakutat, said she...Exit dance. An elder from the Mt. St. Elias Dancers invited a younger member...Wooshkeetaan and danced with the Mt. St. Elias Dancers, said one of the highlights...

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