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Tongass Voices: Juneau Bike Doctor’s Ken Hill wants to get everybody on a bike
Juneau Bike Doctor owner Ken Hill with a bike that will be donated to a student in need of a bike at Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School. Artist Chloey Cavanaugh and school librarian Luke Fortier painted...
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Tongass Voices: Sakoon Donedin Jackson on re-indigenizing her life
Sakoon Donedin Jackson at Wooshkindein Da.áat Lily Hope Weaver studio, where she worked on the Emergence Robe for SEARHC on June 4, 2024. (Tasha Elizarde/KTOO) This is Tongass Voices, a series from...
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Tongass Voices: Lovely Colours on playing for their hometown
Lovely Colours playing at a sold out show at Crystal Saloon. June 7, 2024. (Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO). This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly perspectives from the homelands of the Áak’w...
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Tongass Voices: Hans Javier on celebrating the Fourth with Filipino flare
Hans Javier keeps the drummers of Juneau Ati-Atihan on tempo as they walk the streets of downtown Juneau for the annual Independence Day parade. July 4, 2024. (Tasha Elizarde/KTOO) This is Tongass...
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Tongass Voices: Xixtc’ i see Ruby Hughes fuses pop culture and tradition in...
Xixtc’ i see Ruby Hughes with “Raven Transforms into Marilyn,” her award-winning beaded robe. June 24, 2024. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO). This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly...
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Tongass Voices: Chloey Cavanaugh on Kake’s last Dog Salmon Festival
People playing “chicken” at Dog Salmon Fest in Kake in 2023. (Photo courtesy of Kelli Jackson) Kake’s Dog Salmon Festival started 30 years ago as a way to celebrate the commercial fishing season. But...
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Tongass Voices: Quinn Christopherson on turning poems into songs
Quinn Christopherson plays at Overstreet Park. July 27, 2024. (Photo by Tasha Elizarde/KTOO). Quinn Christopherson is an Alaska musician who gained nationwide recognition by winning NPR’s Tiny Desk...
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Tongass Voices: Diosdado Valdez on finding family away from home
Diosdado Valdez looks out on the view of Gastineau Chanel. (Photo by Tasha Elizarde/KTOO) This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly perspectives from the homelands of the Áak’w Kwáan...
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Tongass Voices: James Houck on the joy of pedaling people through Juneau
James Houck gives a tour of downtown Juneau on his pedicab on Aug. 19, 2024. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO). This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly perspectives from the homelands of...
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Tongass Voices: Sh Dei Wooteen Jeni Brown on speaking up —“Everybody has a...
Sh Dei Wooteen Jeni Brown with her niece at a stalking awareness and prevention training in Juneau on Aug. 22, 2024. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO). This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing...
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Tongass Voices: Nutaaq Doreen Simmonds on finding herself on the stage
Nutaaq Doreen Simmonds plays the grandmother, Aaka Mary, in Cold Case, running at Perseverance Theater this month. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing...
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Tongass Voices: Trail Mix’s Meghan Tabacek on what it takes to be in trail work
Meghan Tabacek is the executive director of Trail Mix, Inc. Juneau’s trail maintenance nonprofit. August 30, 2024. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO). This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing...
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Tongass Voices: Mitch Erie on what it takes to be a firefighter for the U.S....
Mitch Erie works as a firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service in Wrangell. (Photo courtesy of Mitch Erie) This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly perspectives from the homelands of...
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Tongass Voices: Enrique Bravo on being the everyman of Juneau’s theater scene
Enrique Bravo in The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. (Courtesy of Perseverance Theater) This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly perspectives from the homelands of the Áak’w Kwáan...
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Tongass Voices: George Gress, Joseph Galgano and Bryan Bolaños on musical...
George Gress and Joe Galgano play their handmade guitars together in Gress’s workshop on April 6, 2024. (Tasha Elizarde/KTOO). This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly perspectives...
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Tongass Voices: Kushx̱eet.éesh/Kaasgéiy Bowers on walking the path to identity
Kushx̱eet.éesh/Kaasgéiy Bowers peeks under leaves for thimbleberries near Basin Road on August 23, 2024. (Photo by Tasha Elizarde/KTOO) This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly...
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Tongass Voices: NAMI Juneau’s Aaron Surma on how to combat the winter blues
NAMI Juneau’s Aaron Surma. September 5, 2024. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly perspectives from the homelands of the Áak’w Kwáan and beyond....
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Tongass Voices: Wayne Price on the past — and future — of yaakw carving
Master Carver Wayne Price and his apprentice Skaydu.û Jules stand in front of a yaakw-in-progress on Nov. 6, 2024. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing...
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Tongass Voices: Skaydu.û Jules on bringing Lingít into other traditional...
Skaydu.û Jules uses an adze to carve out the inside of a dugout canoe — or yaakw — as her mentor, Master Carver Wayne Price, watches on Nov. 6, 2024. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO). This is Tongass...
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Tongass Voices: Moria Johnson-Sidney on the stabilizing force of carving a yaakw
Moria Johnson-Sidney uses an adze to carve out the inside of a dugout canoe — or yaakw — on Nov. 6, 2024. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO). This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly...
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