Shame on the Denver Art Museum!! According to Harold Jacobs, the Tlingit and Haida’s cultural resource specialist who attended meetings in Denver in 2017, the museum was “probably the worst” institution they had ever dealt with regarding repatriation of plundered Native artifacts.

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/denver-art-museum-denies-repatriation-requests-native-alaskan-tribes-1234704346/

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#alaskanativeart
#repatriationofart
#Tlingit
#Haida
#NAGPRA

Denver Art Museum Denies Repatriation Requests from Native Alaskan Tribes: Report

The museum denied three repatriation requests from the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska after meetings in 2017.

ARTnews.com
The carved panel I made circa 1987. It is aging naturally. #tlingitart #tlingit #alaskanativeart
Alaska Native artist Crystal Kaakeeyáa Rose Demientieff Worl has used her extraordinary talent on one of Alaska Airlines' 737. The official name of the airplane is Xáat Kwáani (Salmon People.)
#Alaska #AlaskaNativeArt #IndigenousArt #SalmonPeople
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2023/05/11/alaska-native-artist-expands-work-airplanes/
Alaska Native artist expands work to airplanes

The official name of the plane is Xáat Kwáani, which has an English translation of “Salmon People,” something that the artist, Crystal Worl, holds near to her heart.

KTUU
Some #alaskanativeart lessons at the University of Alaska Southeast in #Sitka #Alaska