Our Tlingit language is precious to Goldbelt Heritage Foundation. It is complex, linguistically precise, poetic and expressive. It is a window into the inner workings of the Tlingit mind. At our website we want to offer tools and materials for anyone to learn the Tlingit language, and to foster continued documentation and research into the language.

Barbara Cadiente-Nelson

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Juneau School District K-12 Student Success Coordinator, speaking at KHF Canoe event, Alaska State Museum
On the importance of language and culture

John Martin, Sr., Fluent Speaker and Elder

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We are at a crossroads. Fluent speakers are helping develop new ways of teaching the language.