TRUCK FIRE – Firefighters knock down a fire in a Ford Explorer truck in Arrowhead Trailer Park in the 1200 block of Sawmill Creek Road Saturday evening. One person received fire-related injuries and was taken to the hospital, Sitka Fire Department Chief Craig Warren said, and the truck was considered a total loss. The cause of the fire is under investigation, Warren said. The fire hall received the call about the fire at 5:33 p.m., and one fire engine with eight firefighters and an ambulance were dispatched, he said. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)

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    The “Sharing Our Knowledge” conference of Tlingit tribes and clans opens Friday with hundreds from around the region, state and nation, and a few scholars from Russia, expected to attend.
    The theme this year is “Our History, We Are Healing Ourselves.”    

A 3-D scanner is used on a Tlingit hat in 2012. The "Sharing Our Knowledge" conference will have several people from the Smithsonian this weekend with scanning equipment, like that pictured, but also with 3D printing capabilities. They will demonstrate a plastic printed Tlingit spear-throwing device.  (Photo provided by Peter Metcalfe)


    The biennial conference is open to everyone with an interest in “indigenous peoples of Southeast Alaska and their Canadian relatives,” the meeting program said.
    Gerry Hope, executive director of the Sharing Our Knowledge organizing committee, said the theme has been in the works since he was president of Alaska Native Brotherhood Camp 1 in 2000-01, and is an apt one in the sesquicentennial of the Treaty of Cession when the United States acquired Russian interests in Alaska.
    “The concept within the Native community is that there has been some thought that there was some hurt feelings, and a little anger, because Alaska Natives were not considered or consulted with the transaction between Russia and the United States on Alaska,” Hope said. “This being the 150th year it was the perfect timing to start a dialogue with the Native community about the Treaty of Cession.”
    The conference program says: “Our conference will add new perspectives, that of Alaska Natives whose challenges to the so-called ‘Purchase of Alaska’ were finally addressed in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971.”
    Since the first Sharing Our Knowledge conference at Haines and Klukwan in 1993, the four-day symposium has brought together Alaska Native and First Nations tradition bearers, elders, and fluent speakers of indigenous languages, along with artists, academics, researchers, students and other learners.
    “It’s unique because it’s bringing together the culture bearers with academics and students,” said Peter Metcalfe, director of communications for Sharing Our Knowledge. “I don’t know of another event like this. It’s the merging of academic and culture. It’s really unique to see it all come together.”
    This year’s topics include linguistics, archaeology, art and music, Alaska Native history, museum studies, cultural anthropology, indigenous law and clan protocols, fisheries, and traditional ecological knowledge.
    The conference opens 6 p.m. Friday with the “Warming of the Hands” (welcoming by host clans) in Odess Theater, at the Sitka Fine Arts Camp.
    Another event earlier Friday is the Tlingit Culture Cruise, from 1 to 4 p.m., during which elders will identify Tlingit place-names and discuss cultural practices. Snacks and soft drinks provided. Tickets are still available for this fundraising cruise.
    The film “100 Years” will be shown 7 p.m. Monday at Odess. The filmmaker, Melinda Janko, will be in attendance.
    The conference format will be similar to those of the past: morning plenary sessions followed by concurrent workshops in the afternoons. Evenings will be devoted to cultural activities, including Raven/Eagle-Wolf Nights, poetry readings, and other creative presentations. Weavers of Chilkat and Raven’s Tail blankets will gather to work on and present their creations throughout the conference.
    Plenary and workshop sessions will be held on the Sitka Fine Arts Camp campus.
    The concept of such a conference came from the late Andrew Hope III, with the first conference held in May 1993 in Haines/Klukwan, followed by ones in Ketchikan/Saxman and Sitka. Ten years lapsed until the most recent conferences, held in 2007 in Sitka, 2009 in Juneau, 2012 in Sitka, and 2013 and 2015 in Juneau. Each gathering attracted more than 400 participants and nearly 100 presenters.
    The schedule is available at www.sharingourknowledge.org
    After the conference, Metcalfe said there will be a panel discussion open to the public with three from Russia and three Alaska Native people from different generations 1:30 p.m. at Mt. Edgecumbe High School. Stephen Haycox, professor emeritus of history at the University of Alaska Anchorage, will be the moderator.

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20 YEARS AGO

March 2004

Businesses using the Centennial Hall parking lot testified Tuesday against a proposal to charge them rent in addition to the $200 annual permit fee. City Administrator Hugh Bevan made the proposal in response to the Assembly’s direction to Centennial Hall manager Don Kluting to try to close the $340,000 gap between building revenues and operational costs.


50 YEARS AGO

March 1974

Alaska Native Brotherhood Grand President William S. Paul Sr. will be special guest and speaker at the local ANB, Alaska Native Sisterhood Founders Day program Monday at the ANB Hall.

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