Dates: October 27, 2022
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Join Tlingit & Haida this Thursday, October 27, for an Elders Talking Circle with guest speaker X’unei Lance Twitchell who will share Raven stories and our Lingít language.
The Elders Talking Circles are held as a Facebook live event and are hosted by Tlingit & Haida’s Wellness Court in partnership with the Elders program.
About Our Guest Speaker:
X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell, PhD, is of Tlingit, Haida, Yupʼik, and Sami heritage. He is an Associate Professor of Alaska Native Languages at the University of Alaska Southeast and is a multimedia artist who works in Northwest Coast design, poetry, screenwriting, music, film, and photography. Dr. Twitchell holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Minnesota, a master's in Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, and a doctorate in Hawaiian and Indigenous Language and Culture Revitalization from Ka Haka ʻUla o Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. His studies focus on creating safe language acquisition spaces and achieving revitalization through counter-hegemonic transformation, which means a rejection of external definitions and fragmentation and a promotion of the thought world of the ancestors of language movements.
