Kake Tribal Heritage Foundation

Kake Tribal Heritage seeks to enhance and enrich the Tlingit culture and the education of our youth.

Leadership

  • Henrich Kadake Sr. – President
  • Ashley Padgett – Vice President
  • Kelli Jackson – Secretary/Treasurer
  • Falen Mills – Director
  • Karen Kadake – Director
  • Robert K. Mills – Director
  • Delbert Kadake – Director
  • Dakwaneek Crookes – Lead Mentor – ext. 313
  • Jonathan Mills Assistant KTHF Mentor

History

The Tlingit (/ˈklɪŋkɨt/ or /ˈtlɪŋɡɨt/; also spelled Tlinkit) are an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Their name for themselves is Lingít, meaning “People of the Tides” (pronounced [ɬɪŋkɪ́t]). The Russian name Koloshi (Колоши) (from an Sugpiaq-Alutiiq term kulut’ruaq for the labret worn by women) or the related German name Koulischen may be encountered referring to the people in older historical literature, such as Shelikhov’s 1796 map of Russian America.

The Tlingit are a matrilineal society that developed in the temperate rainforest of the southeast Alaska coast and the Alexander Archipelago. The Tlingit maintained a complex hunter-gatherer culture based on semi-sedentary management of fisheries. An inland group, known as the Inland Tlingit, inhabits the far northwestern part of the province of British Columbia and the southern Yukon Territory in Canada.

The history of the Tlingit involves both pre-contact and post-contact historical events and stories. The traditional history involved creation stories, the Raven Cycle and other tangentially related events during the mythic age when spirits freely transformed from animal to human and back, and the migration story of coming to Tlingit lands, clan histories More recent tales describe events near the time of first contact with Europeans. At that point, European and American historical records come into play, and though modern Tlingits have access to and review these historical records, they continue to maintain their own historical record by telling stories of ancestors and events important to them against the background of the changing world.

For more about the Tlingit people visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlingit

and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Tlingit
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