Sealaska - Programs - Language & Culture

Sealaska Heritage Institute produces Native language curriculum and other education tools through its Language and Education Programs. The institute encourages students and teachers to use its online resources to perpetuate and revitalize Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian languages. (To download the interactive tools to your computer, right click the link and choose "save target as")

Tlingit Verb Database New! (a searchable database of more than 575 Tlingit verbs)

Clan Names (Eagle) (Audio by John Marks and June Pegues)

Clan Names (Raven) (Audio by John Marks and June Pegues)

Curriculum

Latseen Basketball (learn Tlingit words for basketball in an interactive environment) (Latseen Basketball Camps)

Numbers (learn Tlingit words for numbers in an interactive environment) (Print words) (Download Flash Player)

Bear Barometer (learn Tlingit phrases for weather in an interactive environment) (Print words) (Download Flash Player)

Shanyaak'utlaax (a Tlingit story written in Tlingit and produced by SHI)
(Print pdf version) (Download Flash Player)

My House (learn the Tlingit phrases for common household items in an interactive environment. (Print word list) (Download Flash Player)

Move the Murrelet (learn Tlingit phrases such as above the boat and behind the boat in an interactive environment. (Print word list) (Download Flash Player)

Birds (learn the Tlingit words for birds common to Southeast Alaska in an interactive environment) (Print word list) (Download Flash Player)

Classroom (learn the Tlingit words for things you would find in a classroom in an interactive environment) (Print word list) (Download Flash Player)

Ocean Animals (learn the Tlingit words for Southeast Alaska critters in an interactive environment) (Print word list) (Download Flash Player)

Critters (learn the Tlingit words for Southeast Alaska critters in an interactive environment) (Print word list) (Download Flash Player)

Héen Táak (learn the Tlingit words for salmon and other marine life in an interactive environment)

Tlingit Alphabet (see the Tlingit alphabet and hear the sounds)

Tlingit Alphabet (print this pdf version for use as playing cards)

Tlingit Alphabet (print this pdf version for use in language classes)

Tlingit Phrase of the Week (see and hear Tlingit phrases)

Tlingit Valentine Phrases (learn to Tlingit terms of endearment)

MORE Tlingit Valentine Phrases (learn to Tlingit terms of endearment) (thanks to Roby Littlefield for this resource)

Tlingit Prayer

aShort Version (text)
aLong Version (text)

Beach Creatures Posters (learn Tlingit words for common beach creatures)

Numbers Poster (see how numbers are spelled in Tlingit)

Number Cards (build numbers and play fun number games)

Basic Colors Poster

Complex Colors Poster

Card Games (some assembly required)
	aCrazy Questions aGo Fish (Berry Cards) aWord Rummy

Christmas Phrases

www.tlingitlanguage.org (SHI website)

www.haidalanguage.org (SHI website)

www.tsimshianlanguage.org (SHI website)

Other useful links:

Online Tlingit Dictionary
Dum Baal dum (Tsimshian Language)
Juneau Tlingit Geography
Weekly Tlingit Language Lesson (5-minute weekly lessons by Marsha Hotch. Produced by KHNS-FM and archived on the web).
"Phrases of the Week" from Raven Radio website in Sitka, Alaska
Anash Interactive (interactive Tlingit games, comics and videos on the adventures of the character Anash)

Coming soon:

Online, bilingual dictionaries for Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian (Sealaska Heritage Institute is sponsoring the project through a $175,000 grant from the Administration for Native Americans (ANA) sought on behalf of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian languages and cultures The project is seventy-eight percent federally funded and twenty-two percent is funded through non-governmental sources.