Celebration: Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian Dancing on the Land

by Rosita Worl, Robert Davidson, Maria Williams

In 1982, the fledgling Native nonprofit Sealaska Heritage Institute held a dance-and-culture festival to celebrate the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska. A couple of hundred Native people gathered in Juneau for the event, called Celebration . They could not have imagined then that Celebration woud spark a movement across the region - a renaissance of Native culture that prompted people largely unfamiliar with their heritage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295988290
• ISBN13: 9780295988290
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 11.4" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher