Sheldon Jackson

Sheldon Jackson

male, deceased (1909)
Alaska Native, reindeer, Siberia, princeton theological seminary, missionary, inuit…Tlingit
Rev. Sheldon Jackson (1834-1909) was a Presbyterian missionary in the Western United States in the 19th century. He is particularly known for his...

Bill Holm

male, 84 years old
from Montana, artist, Pacific Northwest artist, American, University of Washington, The Bill Holm Center Graduate Fellowship…Tlingit
Bill Holm (born 1925 in Roundup, Montana) is a U.S. artist, author and art historian specializing in the visual arts of Northwest Coast Native...
Nora Marks Dauenhauer

Nora Marks Dauenhauer

female
poet, Sealaska Heritage Foundation, Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, Alaska writer, Alaska Native, Tlingit
Nora Marks Dauenhauer is an American poet and short-story writer and a scholar of the language and traditions of the Tlingit aboriginal nation in...
Emily Carr

Emily Carr

female, deceased (1945)
memoirist, From Victoria, British Columbia, impressionist painter, artist, Canadian, group of seven…Tlingit
Emily Carr was a Canadian artist and writer. She was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and moved to San Francisco in 1890 to study art after the...

Richard Dauenhauer

male
poet, Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, Text and Context of Tlingit Oral Tradition, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Alaska writer, Tlingit
Richard Dauenhauer is an American poet and translator who has married into, and become an expert on, the Tlingit nation of southeastern Alaska. His...
George T. Emmons

George T. Emmons

male, deceased (1945)
United States Naval Academy, photographer, u.s. naval academy, Ethnographer, ethnographic, potlatch…Tlingit
George Thornton Emmons (June 6, 1852 - June 11, 1945) was an ethnographic photographer and a U.S. Navy Lieutenant. He was born in Baltimore,...
Frederica de Laguna

Frederica de Laguna

female, deceased (2004)
C. G. Seligman, Kaj Birket-Smith, Grace Mead Andrus, London School of Economics, Theodore Lopez de Leo de Laguna, Bryn Mawr College alumni…Tlingit
Frederica ("Freddy") de Laguna was an American anthropologist. Her parents, Theodore Lopez de Leo de Laguna and Grace Mead Andrus, were,...
Elizabeth Peratrovich

Elizabeth Peratrovich

female
Presbyterian, Tlingit, Alaska Native, Sitka, Alaska writer, Western College of Education
Elizabeth W. Peratrovich (née: Wanamaker) (b. July 4, 1911-d. December 1, 1958) was an important Alaska civil rights activist, working on behalf o...
John R. Swanton

John R. Swanton

male, deceased (1958)
Skaay, Gandl, Earnest Gouge, Bureau of American Ethnology, chickasaw, pacific northwest…Tlingit
John Reed Swanton was an American anthropologist who worked with Native American peoples throughout the United States. Born in Gardiner, Maine,...
Sergei Kan

Sergei Kan

male
University of Chicago, Kaagwaantaan, Dakl'aweidí, Sergei A. Kan, John Comaroff, Jean Comaroff…Tlingit
Sergei A. Kan is an American anthropologist known for his research with and writings on the Tlingit people of southeast Alaska, focusing on the...