Sealaska Corporation

The Sealaska Corporation and Sealaska Heritage Institute will create Sealaska Living Heritage Museum Boxes, portable kits comprised of museum-quality collection items with associated lesson plans and activities, to bring culturally responsive and culturally sustaining educational experiences to Southeast Alaska’s elementary students, many of whom are unable to visit the museum due to its location. Project activities include engaging Alaska Native artists to create models for the boxes, creating accompanying educational materials, assembling the boxes, and piloting two museum box experiences with teachers and students in grades 3-5. This project will promote and enhance diversity, inclusivity, and cross-cultural understanding of the Tlingit, Haida, and Ts’msyen (Tsimshian) cultures and languages and support teachers unfamiliar with Alaska Native cultures to teach about those traditions, allowing Alaska Native students to feel that their cultures are valued.