...Heritage Fellowship Award and the United States Artist Fellowship. Her work has been displayed at the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution, and the Penn Museum at University of Pennsylvania, among others.She...
...Several facilities bear her name, including the Elmer and Mary Louise Rasmuson Theater at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.The family is planning a funeral mass Sept. 10 at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church...
"Our Tlingit tradition is an oral tradition, said state Sen. Albert Kookesh as he introduced Sealaska Board Vice Chair and President of Sealaska Heritage Institute Rosita Worl - the final speaker in the Native American Heritage Month lecture series.
WASHINGTON - For hundreds of years, a red cedar tree grew tall and straight in a forest in British Columbia.
...Oct. 20-22, and is a partnership with the Alaska Native Heritage Center and Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, with support from the Anchorage Museum, Anchorage International Film Festival and National Museum of the American Indian.
The Alaska Federation of Natives on Friday awarded its highest honor, the Citizen of the Year award, to Juneau Resident Rosita Worl, president of Sealaska Heritage Institute.
...Understanding: Materials Characterization and Condition Assessment of Tlingit Spruce Root Baskets at the National Museum of the American Indian," discusses her ongoing collaboration with the conservation staff at the Smithsonian Institution to better...
Five master weavers from Hoonah traveled to Washington, D.C., last week to study hundreds of Tlingit and Haida woven artifacts in the Smithsonian Institution's collections.
...There are some pretty old-style form lines." Two Kiks.adi masks were repatriated in March by the National Museum of the American Indian. A hat was returned a week ago from the Minnesota Museum of American Art. Ray Wilson, a Kiks.adi elder...
Rick West had been invited to Celebration before. But his day job, as director of the National Museum of the American Indian, had always kept him preoccupied. This year, he made Celebration a priority. West participated in Thursday's...
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