History of the Native People of Southeastern Alaska
Rosita Worl, president of the Sealaska Heritage Institute, shared the history of the Native people of southeastern Alaska.
Description
Rosita Worl, president of the Sealaska Heritage Institute, shared the history of the Native people of southeastern Alaska.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- Describe some of the early characteristics of native Alaskan society.
- How did the arrival of Russians and other Europeans to Alaska impact native culture?
- Describe the relationship between native Alaskans and Americans when they arrived.
- Explain one of the missions of the Sealaska Heritage institute.
- Describe Rosita Worl's experiences in her youth in Alaska.
- Explain the purpose of the four-day Celebration event as Rosita Worl describes.
Participants
Vocabulary
- Adverse
- Assimilate
- Civil Rights Movement
- Discriminatory
- Entrepreneur
- Haida
- Negate
- Segregate
- Suppress
- Tlingit
- Tsimshian