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Press Release
July 24, 2002
SEALASKA HERITAGE INSTITUTE TO OFFER LANGUAGE WORKSHOP
Sealaska Heritage Institute is offering its fourth, annual Sealaska Kusteeyí Institute (SKI), a two-week Native language workshop in Juneau. The workshop is scheduled Aug. 4-17 at the University of Alaska Southeast, Auke Lake Campus.
The institute this year will feature courses in Tlingit for novice and intermediate students and teaching methods for Alaska Native languages plus a master apprentice language training program. This year’s SKI will be followed by an optional Tlingit language immersion retreat, scheduled Aug. 19 at a remote Juneau camp. All participants must pledge to refrain from the use of English for the duration of their stay at the camp, which ends Aug. 23.
SHI sponsors the Sealaska Kusteeyí Institute in partnership with the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS). The goal of SKI is to support and strengthen Native language and culture revitalization. The institutes allow Native language instructors and mature students from across the region to gather and focus on language acquisition and effective teaching methods. The workshops also offer artisans opportunities to concentrate on building practices of endangered arts, such as basket weaving, highlighted during SKI. SHI expanded the program this year to include institutes in Ketchikan and Sitka, held in July.
For more information, contact Roy Iutzi-Mitchell at 907-586-9272 or at roy.mitchell@sealaska.com.
News articles on SKI 2002 & Tlingit Immersion Retreat:
"Juneau institute expands to Ketchikan, Sitka"
"Institute works to preserve Native languages"
"Creating a habitat for Tlingit: Total immersion
language camp puts students in touch with another time."