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Tiglit

Tlingit
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Tlingit
Tlingit - a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska
Tlingit - the Na-Dene - a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Tlingit people

Aanka Xóodzi ka Aasgutu Xóodzi Shkalneegi - illustrated by Tlingit woman Wanda Culp.
Children's book aims to save dying Alaskan language
Scholar's version of The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse translated into Tlingit with the help of local elders.
The first ever children's book to be translated into the endangered Alaskan language of Tlingit has just been published, with hopes riding high that it will help keep the dying language alive.
Inspired by the classic story of the town mouse and the country mouse, American book award-winning author and historian of her mother's Tlingit tribe Ernestine Hayes wrote The Story of the Town Bear and the Forest Bear in English. Local publisher Hazy Island Books then worked with Tlingit elders to translate the book into the highly endangered language, spoken today by only around 500 people.

Listening To Our Ancestors: The Art of Native Life Along the NorthPacific Coast
http://www.nmai.si.edu/listening/
Presented by the National Museum of the American Indian, this Web exhibit focuses on ceremonial and everyday objects created and used by 11 Native communities that have lived in the Pacific Northwest: Coast Salish, Gitxsan, Haida, Heiltsuk, Kwakwaka'wakw, Makah, Nisga'a, Nuu-chah-nulth, Nuxalk, Tlingit, and Tsimshian. The Credits section of the site provides complete information about how information and materials were gathered from each community. For each community, visitors to the site can read commentary by community curators and view objects that were used for a variety of purposes. The theme of the Coast Salish gallery is "Everything is connected", and curator Marilyn G. Jones notes, "The items weren't made for art, they were made for use." Examples include baskets and mats, canoes, and weaving items such as whorls (parts of a spindle, used for spinning fiber into thread by hand), which, despite Jones' disclaimer, are exquisitely decorated. On the other hand, the Tlingit gallery starts with the statement "These are our treasures" and includes art - sculptures of a Raven and a pipe in the shape of an eagle; body ornaments - for hair, bracelets and earrings; and a treasure chest.