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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Renaud Chandivert
“It seems to me that the archipelago paradigm and this idea of relationality perfectly fit with what I wanted to develop in this lecture and also correspond quite well to Southeast Alaska geographical, the Alexander Archipelago, cultural, spiritual, political, and also political context.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Lecture: AN "ARCHIPELAGO OF CONNECTIONS" AND A LIVING HERITAGE | Sealaska Heritage · Jul 1, 2026
Renaud Chandivert
“Transporting this concept and mixing it with Édouard Glissant's idea of archipelago, I propose to develop the notion of archipelago of connections. Speaking of an archipelago of connections can help us to conceptualize what I have already developed in this lecture about holistic traditional foodways and multi-species communities.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Lecture: AN "ARCHIPELAGO OF CONNECTIONS" AND A LIVING HERITAGE | Sealaska Heritage · Jul 1, 2026
Renaud Chandivert
“Long durée processes of co-evolution between humans and other species, detailed knowledge gained from observing species behavior and ecosystems functioning, multi-species communities,, and land-stream-ocean continuum, all of these create deep networks of connections.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Lecture: AN "ARCHIPELAGO OF CONNECTIONS" AND A LIVING HERITAGE | Sealaska Heritage · Jul 1, 2026
Renaud Chandivert
“Salmon, berries, herring eggs, Hollywood are the connectors between people on families, on friends, and also past and future generations. By this way, it's not possible to oppose bad spread-out networks and good multi-fibers one. Networks are never a problem by themself. It's the basis on which they are built and the way we use them that define what they can be.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Lecture: AN "ARCHIPELAGO OF CONNECTIONS" AND A LIVING HERITAGE | Sealaska Heritage · Jul 1, 2026
Renaud Chandivert
“I've discovered the importance of transmission of Tlingit culture and traditional foodways among generations. I also began to discover the fact that these traditional foodways embrace a deep spiritual dimension. This spiritual dimension joins together past, present, and future and concerns the relationship with natural species.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Lecture: AN "ARCHIPELAGO OF CONNECTIONS" AND A LIVING HERITAGE | Sealaska Heritage · Jul 1, 2026
Renaud Chandivert
“How could traditional foodways— I prefer to use this expression rather than subsistence, which is rightfully very controversial— help us to go beyond basic oppositions between spirituality and materiality, between land and ocean, between animals and human beings, between keeping and giving, between the self and the other?”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Lecture: AN "ARCHIPELAGO OF CONNECTIONS" AND A LIVING HERITAGE | Sealaska Heritage · Jul 1, 2026
Renee Culp
“Different than a house that is owned by a family, clan-owned property has a spirit. It's alive. And it's a member of our family.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“I reflected deeply on future generations and what they will learn from the messages from our ancestors and the messages that we share now for them.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“I reflected on responsibility, my responsibility, our responsibility as human beings, our responsibility as clan members, and as citizens of the Tlingit Tribe.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“At'uu in our Tlingit culture is a clan-owned piece of property.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“Our artifacts are the things that we are creating. These pieces are often referred to as artwork or simply art, and they are, but they are so much more.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“he strapped daggers, knives, to his wrists and went in the water to fight the octopus. Both lost their lives. He was successful in taking out the danger to our people, but in the process, he lost his life. It is said that our people found him and the octopus washed ashore with him wrapped up in the octopus tentacles covered in black ink.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“What is our duty to leave trail markers for them to locate in their responsibilities?”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“What actually ended up happening during these— this time while beading and visiting was deep reflection.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“I chose to bring this story forward at this time in memory of my late Uncle Robert Loescher. He shares the name, holds the name, Katoosh Too, ancestor of ours that you will hear about. Later in the presentation, the purpose of this blanket.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“Just right outside Glacier Bay, there are Porpoise Islands. And outside our— the bay of— at the entrance of our bay, near the Porpoise Islands, there was a giant octopus that was wreaking havoc with our people.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“What I believe my ancestor Katushtu is is trying to teach us, remind us, help us return to is protection.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“Not power and dominance, but service, sacrifice, accountability, and love.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“The kahtoosh too robe is coming into being.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“I can feel its spirit coming alive.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“When we bring this robe to life through ceremony, the kahtoosh too robe, will join this living system of documentation, teaching relationship, teaching responsibility, and honoring protection.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“When I decided that I wanted to make a button robe, I knew I was going to be creating the beaded piece first because that's the greatest amount of time. And without the beaded piece, I could do the robe, but it's just a robe. It doesn't have the spirit. And I don't mean just a robe, but it doesn't have the Katushchu spirit in it.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“This ancestor, direct ancestor of our family, made the ultimate sacrifice in protecting our people. Glacier Bay holds traditionally 4 clans, not just the Chukaneidi. Káatooš too did not just think of his direct family. His immediate family or his clan family. He thought about all of the people in Glacier Bay.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 2 - Thursday June 4 · Jun 4, 2026
Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 2 - Thursday June 4 · Jun 4, 2026
Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 2 - Thursday June 4 · Jun 4, 2026
Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 2 - Thursday June 4 · Jun 4, 2026
Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 2 - Thursday June 4 · Jun 4, 2026
Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 2 - Thursday June 4 · Jun 4, 2026
Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 2 - Thursday June 4 · Jun 4, 2026
Nathan Mitchell
“Hurt a lot of times, but I had a duty and responsibility to this nation, to protect this land. And I think it's something that goes back a millennia, right? Us, you know, combat arms, not in a modern sense, but, you know, an ancient, we have that duty to protect these lands, what we have. It's very special. I've been all over the world, but there's nothing like Southeast Alaska.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 4 - Saturday June 6 · Jun 6, 2026
Speaker G
“Alaska Natives have a rich history of military participation stemming from their tribal warrior traditions. And the specific need to defend their homelands. Today, it's our family's great honor and my great honor to acknowledge my nephew Nathan Mitchell.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 4 - Saturday June 6 · Jun 6, 2026
Speaker G
“Alaska Natives and American Indians serve in the United States military at the highest per capita rate of any demographic in the country.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 4 - Saturday June 6 · Jun 6, 2026
Speaker G
“Often serving 5 times the national average. The Department of Defense and the Defense and Veterans Affairs report that tens of thousands of Native individuals are active duty service members or veterans.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 4 - Saturday June 6 · Jun 6, 2026
Nathan Mitchell
“And my son and I just completed the journey, the canoe journey here, and I can't tell you how special that was. The warm welcome that we received and then continue on into celebration has just been super special for us to be welcomed back here again amongst family. And it's just something that I needed badly, being gone for so long. I missed this. I really did.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 4 - Saturday June 6 · Jun 6, 2026
Speaker G
“For 28 years of active duty service as a Navy SEAL.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 4 - Saturday June 6 · Jun 6, 2026
Nathan Mitchell
“Was in Virginia. I lived in Virginia, lived in California for those 28 years. And I say I lived, I lived there. But home was always here amongst you all.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 4 - Saturday June 6 · Jun 6, 2026
Speaker G
“And retiring as a Command Master Chief, he deployed 17 times fighting for our people and our country. A true warrior for us. We are so happy he has returned home to us to continue fighting for our people and for our homelands.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 4 - Saturday June 6 · Jun 6, 2026
Nathan Mitchell
“And it's in there. It's something you can never get rid of totally. So they carry it. And they signed up knowing that they're going to have to carry that for the rest of their lives. But so if you are— hurtin' on the inside, there's people out there, there's fellow veterans, please just come up and talk.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 4 - Saturday June 6 · Jun 6, 2026
Nathan Mitchell
“A lot of guys come home, but they'll still carry it with them.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 4 - Saturday June 6 · Jun 6, 2026
Nathan Mitchell
“And we— there's something else I'd like to say about PTSD. We've lost some friends in the past.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 4 - Saturday June 6 · Jun 6, 2026
Nathan Mitchell
“But I've been gone for 28 years.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 4 - Saturday June 6 · Jun 6, 2026
Mary Peltola
“All the people who paddled here. This is not something that many of us grew up doing, and I'm so thankful that this has come back. This is such wellness. This is part of our wellness plan now.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 1 - Wednesday June 3 · Jun 3, 2026
Karen Tog
“Canoes came from Wrangell, Petersburg, first one from Petersburg in 100 years, from Kake and Ketchikan, Sitka, Angoon, Hoonah, and I was on the one from Haines in a traditional dugout canoe by master carver Wayne Price.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 1 - Wednesday June 3 · Jun 3, 2026
Mary Peltola
“in the '80s and '90s and 2000s, Native people across our state, from Southeast all the way across Alaska, we started dancing again. We started bringing out our regalia again.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 1 - Wednesday June 3 · Jun 3, 2026
Mary Peltola
“When I was growing up, carving was not common. Now we have master carvers who are younger than me.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 1 - Wednesday June 3 · Jun 3, 2026
Speaker A
“We would like to dedicate our performance today to late elder Margaret Roberts. She is a huge reason why we are here today, and we are so grateful for her and all that she's done as an elder for us.”Prefix - Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 2 - Thursday June 4 · Jun 4, 2026
Speaker A
“My English name is Olivia Robertskanuk is Margaret Roberts granddaughter, and she's been really excited to introduce her songs. But the next one we're going to dance for you is called Sakulak. This song was written by Lauren Anderson, and it speaks of how our ancestors, when they were missing our loved ones, we would send messages to them by talking to the birds that we would see.”Prefix - Sealaska Heritage Institute: Celebration 2026 | Day 2 - Thursday June 4 · Jun 4, 2026