It’s been four years since the biennial event was last held, a gap that’s seen the loss of elders and a pause on important cultural rites for Southeast Alaska’s Indigenous peoples.
Wearing his wolf headdress, Ben Coronell of Juneau watches over the arrival of eight canoes at the Auke Recreation Area in Juneau on Tuesday. Coronell, whose Tlingit name is Ooskan, is of the Yanyeidí, the Eagle/Wolf clan, and he is a descendant of Chief Kowee, one of the founders of Juneau.
“You should feel my ‘canoe guns,’” she said with a big laugh, offering up her bicep. “They’re pretty solid, and they’ll be gone in a month.” “This is energy. As soon as we heard the people at the beach, our energy came back,” said Susettna King, who’d joined in with the Kake canoers at Funter Bay. Like the other canoes to land Monday evening, Zeller’s crew passed the beach chanting, and was met with boisterous salutations from the beach. The eight vessels arced back into the bay and danced slowly in the surf before joining into a tight flotilla, eventually invited ashore by the Aak’w Kwáan clan of Juneau.
“The last time we gathered this was a parking lot,” said Sealaska Corp. Board Chair Joe Kaaxúxgu Nelson during a dedication ceremony Tuesday. That means the hundreds of dancers performing on the main stage in Centennial Hall are showcasing not only the songs trusted to them over generations, but the hours spent practicing them, too. It means the furs, feathers and artistry featured in the Toddler Regalia Review are seen as a testament to a grandmother’s sewing skills, a mother’s beadwork and an uncle’s hunting abilities.
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