Scholar to Teacher - Building your Mentor Team with Neelaatughaa Anna Clock

Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a free lecture series on the challenges and successes faced by language students learning Lingít (Tlingit), X̱aad Kíl (Haida) and Shm’algyack (Tsimshian).
The series, “Honoring Our Ancestors and Future Generations” (Haa Shuká in Tlingit; Íitl’ Kuníisii in Haida and Na Łagigyetgm in Tsimshian), is part of an effort to unite language learners and culture leaders so they can focus on language instruction, programs and resources available to students.
Friday, March 22
Neelaatughaa Anna Clock: Scholar to Teacher - Building your Mentor Team
Neelaatughaa Anna Clock is a Tlingit language teacher and a former student of SHI’s Language Scholars program. She teaches the Tlingit language at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She also hosts an online study group, transcribes, and translates recordings from Tlingit to English and creates instructional videos of her own. In 2022, Anna completed her Indigenous Teaching Certificate in Tlingit as an SHI Language Scholar.
“We have learned through our ongoing Language Scholars program for Lingít, X̱aad Kíl and Shm’algyack 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 Ḵaaháni Worl, president of SHI.
Lecturers will share the challenges and successes of their work to demonstrate to other language learners what is possible and to assure them they are not alone.
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 KZbin, where the recordings will be viewable immediately after. Viewers are encouraged to pose questions in-person and online.
Learn more about Sealaska Heritage here: www.sealaskahe...
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[@6violet6]

Gunalchéesh! As a fellow language learner who reads the dictionary, I took heart from the advice to use our own strengths to continue learning.

[@BrightFamousBannersglare]

5:17 Although I am not indigenous, I find language revitalization to be very important. Even something as simple as introducing yourself in the language I find important. 15:25, 25:24 There definitely is that paranoia that can come with every college student about finding work or establishing their own work. As a liberal arts major, I found it was better to establish my own work than to find myself in neverending competition. 32:38 It's interesting how education can be foundational and hands-on, whether it involves audio work or anything else. 47:35 I intend to start a small business--albeit very slowly--and I would want the relationship between myself and other professionals to be as uncomplicated as possible. 52:41 To quote the Audioslave song "To be yourself is all that you can do" RIP Chris Cornell 53:38 Dr. Natasha Warner noted how the individual talents of every participant of the language revitalization project of the Mutsun language of California helped. I can definitely see how polymaths would especially be helpful to a language revitalization project. 58:03 I don't know if Neelaatughaa Anna Clock is familiar with the Tlingit translation of Macbeth. I would like to ask would we see more projects like that in the future?