Tlingit Group Senior Mount Saint Elias Dancers, Celebration 2018 | Sealaska Heritage

Watch as the Tlingit group Senior Mount Saint Elias Dancers from Yakutat performs at Sealaska Heritage's event Celebration 2018.
Celebration is a biennial festival of Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures held in the Southeast Alaska community of Juneau. The four-day event includes dance performances and associated events such as a Native art market, lectures, a juried art show and competition, traditional food contests, and a parade through downtown Juneau. First held in 1982, Celebration has grown into one of the largest events in Alaska, drawing thousands of people.
Everyone is welcome to this community event, held every even year in June. For information on the next Celebration, visit www.sealaskaheritage.org/inst...
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[@Land-Shark]

I'm one of the Alaskan tribal babies adopted out to a white family in the mid-1960's (born in Ketchikan and raised in Fairbanks and Anchorage), my birth mother was Tsimshian and Tlingit, father listed as Pennsylvania Dutch. I just want to say to my unknown family in the tribes: I see you, I've paid attention my whole life (I was told of my heritage when I was two years old), and you make me proud of where I came from.

[@terrenlisa]

Lately I've been thinking. I think I'm okay with not going home for the next Celebration, then I watch these folks and think I can't miss another Celebration.

[@Buhleep]

my last celebration was also my great grandfather's I cant imagine going without him but I know wherever I go I carry him with me Go, if not for yourself then for your family that cannot

[@reneedaniel2881]

Thank you for sharing this, I am a Navajo from NM and love experiencing other indigenous cultures. Absolutely beautiful dancing ❤️

[@hardtohandle740]

These are my people! My mom was adopted out of the Tlingit tribe into the white community in Michigan but now thanks to the internet I can have a moment with my people. I’m Tlingit and Irish…. Love ❤️ my Tlingit folks. I love ❤️ music and dancing but it’s my spirit calling me home. I love the rain!!!! I wish to meet my Tlingit people someday. I want to feel what it’s like to have an energy level connection. I have always loved music. Music 🎶 is my wonderwall. Now that I see how loud my people are it brings my heart home. I love to dance. I love ❤️ a strong beat. Now I see why! I am also a jokester and it’s because my moiety is the Raven!!! Thank you internet. I love my Tlingit people though I’ve never met you. I am part of the stolen generation!!!!!!! My mom I guess more than me but if you steal the mother you steal the grandchildren!!!! My mother was stolen!!!!

[@Buhleep]

theres no feeling like dancing alongside your people and ancestors our songs are so powerful and so are we a true test of time I am tlingit kaagwaantaan my heart aches to drum again💛

[@dennisleon5607]

I'm glad to see the young people carrying on the way of our Ancestors.

[@elizabethlarsen2763]

I have an Inupiaq mother raised in a catholic orphanage, an Aleut father from Unga, whose father was from Norway. Long ago they were ashamed to be Alaskan natives. I know little about my ancestors. Love these programs. Thank you.

[@amycuaresma]

Gunalchéesh! I have literally watched this 5 times in 24 hours. The intro song gave me chills and made my eyes tear up. I absolutely love the leaders style of dancing he is fantastic

[@apprenticelibrarian]

These dances and songs are absolutely mesmerizing. I loved watching this entire video start to finish!

[@MrFalconford]

Thank you for sharing your celebration.

[@amandabremner5355]

These guys are awesome.

[@devlinanderstrom2080]

Yéi x̱áawé! Fwikoodzée áyóo hás!

[@lingitgirl]

I would love to see this in a longhouse!

[@arcticthundergamer113]

i love this dance group my Grandfather is from yakutat Gaalgaas

[@robertyates151]

Great dance group

[@Sheepdog1314]

thank you !!

[@claytonjohns6760]

love this! Gunalchéesh!

[@epikwon]

This intro song .Ade my hair stand up . And cry

[@Beeni-wello777]

Sne kalyegh 🤲 for sharing, just real 🐝 utiful territory...

[@royfrench7641]

~~~ ❤❤ ~~ BEAUTIFUL ~~ W♡MAN ~~~ ❤❤

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~~~~>-- SUPER. ~~ TRADITION. ~~~

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[@ClaudiaReneFuentes]

Dang. This was dope.

[@AARON-by9pf]

Hail Tlingit clan

[@charleneohalloran7610]

❤️❤️❤️

[@susanjacobs6461]

Gunash Cheesh👊🏽❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@matthewwilliams5037]

Does this group have a cd 💿 ?

[@marryknutsen624]

No we do not

[@djlulu2246]

I need to tall to this man please 🙏

[@XG916]

All the ravens at 18:40

[@josephmalenab5637]

Qayunaaq thank all of the clans the ancestors the elders women men the children the unborn remember the raven and elder John Mark tlingit elder a teacher a two spirit and a friend remember the flying mosquito mask that flew to the sky tlingit elder taku yakatat raven

[@josephmalenab5637]

Also Ms worl a elder a woman of traditional and the old ways new ways a keeper of the ancestors spirit's and the born and the unborn she remembers the raven and the elders we want to welcome her soul spirit to everyone she and her clan to everyone gunacheeh thank you seaalaska the ancestors home they are still here home

[@jefflagrandeur1839]

Mo

[@royfrench7641]

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