Sealaska Heritage Foundation (Juneau, AK 99801-1245)
Rosita F. Worl (Project Director: July 2019 to present)
PW-269451-20
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Preservation and Access
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$349,964 (approved)
$349,964 (awarded)
Grant period:
6/1/2020 – 5/31/2023
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Celebration: 10,000 Years of Cultural Survival
Preservation, digitization, cataloging, and
creation of online access to 540 hours of the song, dance, and oratory of
Sealaska Heritage Institute’s biennial festivals, from their start in 1982 to
the present.
Sealaska Heritage Institute
(SHI) is perhaps best known throughout Alaska and the “Lower 48” (the
contiguous United States) for its biennial Celebration, a major
dance-and-culture festival that celebrates the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian
cultures of Southeast Alaska and other Native groups that join in the event.
SHI designed its three-year Celebration: 10,000 Years of Cultural Survival project
to edit its digitized recordings of Celebrations 1982-1988; migrate, preserve,
and edit its recordings of Celebrations 1990-2016; and create online access to
540 edited hours of songs, dances, and oratory from Celebrations 1982-2018 on
two platforms: YouTube and Proficio for the Web. This video will be presented
by dance group and will also be searchable by performance, community,
Celebration year, and when possible, by specific speakers. SHI will also create
two short educational videos about Celebration which will complement the
project.
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