NWIN Episode # 21 - Seg 1

In this edition of NorthWest Indian News, Lummi Tribal member Chenoa Egawa hosts the program from the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma, Washington. The museum and historical society hosts the second annual "In the Spirit: Contemporary Northwest Native Art" exhibit with more than 30 different Native artists displaying their artwork.


"Tlingit Macbeth", Morgan Howard, reporter. The Tlingit language is given a new birth as it is adapted to Shakespeare's Macbeth and performed at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C.

The Tlingit ensemble from Juneau, Alaska helps to revive their disappearing language.

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[jakitaclone]

If you want the language to survive how about writing for grant money to finance a company like rosetta stone to adapt tlingit into their software. Upon doing so distribute to all tlingits without charge. My father cannot teach me the language and I do want to learn but the resources available are a joke and Sealaska charges the tlingit people for what they do have. I have no hope for the language let alone the culture.

[Linguiphile]

Shakespear in Tlingit? Yes!

Statistically speaking, Tlingit does not have a realistic chance of being revived--not with the dying out of the older native speakers and the lack of econimic incentive for the young people to seriously devote themselves to learning it -- but the effort heer is exciting and laudable.

Keep it up! With both the immersion classes and the plays.

[RavenCinD]

I enjoyed watching this video on TV and glad to see this on You Tube.

[Tlingitone]

so glad to find this, will be checking in from now on, thanks so much for this!

S.Shotridge

[ickyAK]

i'm in this! i'm wearing the blue plaid by the fire pit. and gene is my cousin. hollar.