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Doug Modig is a Tsimshian Indian of the Eagle clan, born and raised in Ketchikan. His stepfather worked as a fisherman, logger and longshoreman. His mother was an Alaska Native weaver, producing museum quality work. His life growing up has been focused on a subsistence lifestyle. For over 40 years, Modig worked with a number of programs involving Alaska Native communities and traveled to 180 of them. His experience centers on collaborating with Alaska Native communities to improve services, and he helped foster the development of the Alaska Native Sobriety Movement. Modig helped develop formative strategies on a statewide response to adverse childhood experiences through trauma-informed initiatives.
Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a free summer lecture series on the challenges faced by language students learning Lingít (Tlingit), X̱aad Kíl (Haida) and Sm'algyax (Tsimshian).
The series, Strengthening our Community, is part of an effort to offer tools to students to work through issues they might encounter while studying languages.
“We have learned through our ongoing language scholars program for Lingít, X̱aad Kíl and Sm'algyax students that the journey has its challenges. We want to support our students and ease their way, as the work they are doing is so important to revitalizing our ancient languages,” said Dr. Rosita Worl, president of SHI.
All lectures will be held in-person at noon (Alaska time) at the Walter Soboleff Building in Juneau. SHI will also live stream the series on its YouTube and save the talks on its channel immediately after. Viewers are encouraged to pose questions in-person and online.
Learn more about Sealaska Heritage here: sealaskaheritage.org
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Doug Modig is a Tsimshian Indian of the Eagle clan, born and raised in Ketchikan. His stepfather worked as a fisherman, logger and longshoreman. His mother was an Alaska Native weaver, producing museum quality work. His life growing up has been focused on a subsistence lifestyle. For over 40 years, Modig worked with a number of programs involving Alaska Native communities and traveled to 180 of them. His experience centers on collaborating with Alaska Native communities to improve services, and he helped foster the development of the Alaska Native Sobriety Movement. Modig helped develop formative strategies on a statewide response to adverse childhood experiences through trauma-informed initiatives.
Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a free summer lecture series on the challenges faced by language students learning Lingít (Tlingit), X̱aad Kíl (Haida) and Sm'algyax (Tsimshian).
The series, Strengthening our Community, is part of an effort to offer tools to students to work through issues they might encounter while studying languages.
“We have learned through our ongoing language scholars program for Lingít, X̱aad Kíl and Sm'algyax students that the journey has its challenges. We want to support our students and ease their way, as the work they are doing is so important to revitalizing our ancient languages,” said Dr. Rosita Worl, president of SHI.
All lectures will be held in-person at noon (Alaska time) at the Walter Soboleff Building in Juneau. SHI will also live stream the series on its YouTube and save the talks on its channel immediately after. Viewers are encouraged to pose questions in-person and online.
Learn more about Sealaska Heritage here: sealaskaheritage.org
facebook.com/SHInstitute
instagram.com/shinstitute
twitter.com/SHInstitute
