A groundbreaking ceremony was held last week in Tlingit Park in Haines to celebrate the start of construction on a new traditional Tlingit longhouse pavilion. Jan Hill, former mayor of Haines, was ...

Natasha Brennan McClatchy Barril had the honor of dancing in the Longhouse’s Chilkat robe. Chilkat is a traditional form of weaving practiced by Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian and other Indigenous ...

The building itself, erected in 1982, will be restored into a traditional Tlingit longhouse, complete with corner house posts of an Eagle and Raven to represent two moieties of the Tlingit people.

Tlingit leaders asked Johnson to accompany ... to tribal members — is supposed to stand in front of his clan’s longhouse. “To us, these are our uncles, our fathers,” Callahan said.