WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:33.420 --> 00:00:34.400 I'm hoping that the 00:00:34.580 --> 00:00:36.200 young people that are gonna be coming here 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:40.050 feel the spirit of the building 00:00:40.050 --> 00:00:41.730 or feel the spirit of our people 00:00:41.730 --> 00:00:44.190 because you know I had a 00:00:44.190 --> 00:00:47.730 nephew who's Chookaneidí 00:00:47.730 --> 00:00:51.929 and he came from you know he's from here 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:55.840 and he said to me 00:00:56.760 --> 00:01:01.180 why should I worry about Glacier Bay? I don't go there anyway. 00:01:02.940 --> 00:01:05.600 I'm a Chookaneidi Yádi 00:01:06.160 --> 00:01:07.680 and it made me feel bad that 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:09.180 he even thought that way. 00:01:09.180 --> 00:01:11.850 So what I'm hoping is that the 00:01:11.850 --> 00:01:15.590 young children that are going to be here can say 00:01:16.120 --> 00:01:20.280 "I am so proud to be who I am." 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:24.479 "I am Tlingit. I am so proud to be who I am." 00:01:26.300 --> 00:01:29.700 And I'm hoping that there's some way 00:01:29.700 --> 00:01:31.350 that we can instill in them that they 00:01:31.350 --> 00:01:36.050 need to be proud of who they are. 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:23.840 TLINGIT greeting following ancient protocols. 00:02:25.040 --> 00:02:27.920 TLINGIT response and invitation to come ashore. 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:33.300 And now we are here to celebrate 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:34.880 and bring joy 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:38.900 back to the land of our ancestors 00:02:39.340 --> 00:02:46.560 Singing and drumming 00:02:49.300 --> 00:02:55.080 Singing and drumming 00:03:13.200 --> 00:03:14.800 What's happening? 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:17.880 You see before you a house. 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:24.800 This house to us is a keystone. 00:03:27.200 --> 00:03:30.000 The keystone holds up the bridge. 00:03:32.160 --> 00:03:35.000 The keystone holds up the bridge. 00:03:36.320 --> 00:03:38.240 The bridge between 00:03:39.200 --> 00:03:41.800 The National Park Service 00:03:43.880 --> 00:03:45.920 and the Huna Tlingit 00:03:46.760 --> 00:03:48.560 through HIA. 00:03:53.160 --> 00:03:54.840 What is happening now 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:04.200 The park and the Huna clans through HIA 00:04:05.200 --> 00:04:10.360 are reaching out and taking their hands 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:14.680 holding hands in partnership. 00:04:19.980 --> 00:04:22.040 We're going to go into the second 00:04:22.200 --> 00:04:23.940 hundred years starting tomorrow. 00:04:25.960 --> 00:04:29.440 And we're turning over a new chapter 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:34.960 in which the National Park Service 00:04:35.469 --> 00:04:40.109 is joining in partnership with the clans. 00:04:43.500 --> 00:04:49.180 TLINGIT oratory 00:04:53.820 --> 00:04:57.060 TLINGIT oratory 00:04:59.380 --> 00:05:01.120 It is well known 00:05:04.100 --> 00:05:08.300 that our ancestors lived here through time immemorial. 00:05:10.440 --> 00:05:15.160 And our eagle clans that are sitting over there 00:05:15.960 --> 00:05:18.120 and those that are standing here. 00:05:19.740 --> 00:05:22.200 The glacier came down 00:05:23.060 --> 00:05:25.040 and we scattered. 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:28.360 And now today 00:05:30.300 --> 00:05:32.560 the canoes that came here 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:41.160 is the ceremonial return of the Huna Tlingit. 00:05:44.880 --> 00:05:51.280 TLINGIT oratory 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:55.680 Tlingit 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:00.280 Tlingit 00:06:01.200 --> 00:06:07.200 You made us very very happy and we thank you. 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:12.400 When the canoes came back it was a 00:06:12.400 --> 00:06:15.699 ceremonial return of the Huna Tlingit. 00:06:17.520 --> 00:06:21.200 It's not just the pullers that was on there. 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:24.070 They brought all the Huna people 00:06:24.070 --> 00:06:29.470 in spirit back to our shores here in 00:06:29.470 --> 00:06:31.390 Glacier Bay. 00:06:32.080 --> 00:06:33.440 TLINGIT oratory 00:06:37.960 --> 00:06:45.660 TLINGIT oratory 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:56.180 TLINGIT oratory 00:06:59.440 --> 00:07:06.360 TLINGIT oratory 00:07:08.400 --> 00:07:11.680 TLINGIT oratory 00:07:12.840 --> 00:07:17.960 TLINGIT oratory 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:21.640 Chookaneidí 00:07:24.760 --> 00:07:26.440 Wooshkeetaan 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:29.720 Kaagwaantaan 00:07:31.520 --> 00:07:34.680 TLINGIT oratory 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:45.200 TLINGIT oratory 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:49.360 TLINGIT oratory 00:07:55.400 --> 00:07:58.160 This happens to be one of the most 00:07:58.170 --> 00:08:00.360 important part of our ceremonies today 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:03.630 because we can't move forward without 00:08:03.630 --> 00:08:05.790 thanking the Tree People for giving 00:08:05.790 --> 00:08:09.870 themselves to our people to create what 00:08:09.870 --> 00:08:12.540 you see before us. 00:08:12.540 --> 00:08:13.590 When we put the chips 00:08:13.590 --> 00:08:18.870 in the fire, the essence of these chips is 00:08:18.870 --> 00:08:23.710 going up with the spirits of the Tree People. 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:28.720 So we treat it with the proper respect. 00:08:29.640 --> 00:08:32.790 We cannot move forward 00:08:32.790 --> 00:08:35.430 until we have done this. 00:08:35.430 --> 00:08:37.350 Our people believe in the highest 00:08:37.350 --> 00:08:40.500 spirits of everything that lives. 00:08:40.500 --> 00:08:43.700 So we have to treat it all with the highest respect. 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:48.870 Our elders always told us if we 00:08:48.870 --> 00:08:52.830 disrespect the spirits, things could happen to us, 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:55.710 so everybody that is 00:08:55.710 --> 00:09:00.930 here with us today because of the ceremony, 00:09:00.930 --> 00:09:03.210 we do not want to have anything happen 00:09:03.210 --> 00:09:07.400 to you beautiful people here amongst us. 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:10.120 So we speak to the spirits 00:09:10.140 --> 00:09:11.520 of the Tree People. 00:09:11.740 --> 00:09:13.340 Aas Kwáani 00:09:13.940 --> 00:09:19.820 We reference the women. They have become the tree people 00:09:19.820 --> 00:09:21.660 because they are the ones that 00:09:21.660 --> 00:09:22.860 gave us life. 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:25.540 It is because of them 00:09:25.540 --> 00:09:27.080 we hold them very high. 00:09:27.420 --> 00:09:29.200 Kaa yaa uwane teen 00:09:29.580 --> 00:09:31.240 With the highest respect. 00:09:33.740 --> 00:09:34.960 Yei awe 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:39.500 Gulalcheesh 00:09:40.220 --> 00:09:44.480 For the Raven portion we conclude with a spirit song. 00:09:45.160 --> 00:09:48.880 It's like putting the stamp of approval on ceremonies. 00:09:49.600 --> 00:10:00.000 Tlingit singing 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:27.680 When the eagle grabs onto something, 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:35.440 and he can't fly with it he tows it ashore 00:10:36.680 --> 00:10:40.560 And that's what he did. 00:10:46.640 --> 00:10:52.560 The story he told... they went across to Grouse Fort, 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:56.140 Groundhog Bay. 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:58.680 Several boats from Hoonah. 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:02.922 To return the Cháak (eagle) screen 00:11:02.922 --> 00:11:06.280 X’een awe yei duwa saakw..x’een 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:14.880 TLINGIT 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:19.520 They were bringing back the screen from Grouse Fort 00:11:20.560 --> 00:11:27.320 TLINGIT 00:11:27.800 --> 00:11:30.400 TLINGIT 00:11:30.620 --> 00:11:33.860 TLINGIT 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:40.880 They were bringing the screen and the house post across 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:45.360 when the eagle saw a large 00:11:45.380 --> 00:11:47.660 king salmon on the surface of the water. 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:53.240 The eagle flew down and grabbed it. 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:57.000 The fish was so big it pulled it into the water 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:04.760 Tlingit 00:12:06.880 --> 00:12:12.120 Tlingit 00:12:12.140 --> 00:12:16.020 Tlingit 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:21.960 Tlingit 00:12:22.560 --> 00:12:26.760 Tlingit 00:12:27.640 --> 00:12:35.320 Tlingit 00:12:35.750 --> 00:12:39.470 What the Eagle represents here 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:43.840 is this Tribal House 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:50.560 grabbed hold of our culture, and it won't let go! 00:12:52.560 --> 00:12:55.120 You could see the forces pulling it back, 00:12:55.760 --> 00:12:58.190 but the Eagle will take it to the shore 00:12:58.190 --> 00:13:01.310 Our culture has been grabbed back 00:13:01.310 --> 00:13:02.509 by the Eagle here 00:13:02.880 --> 00:13:04.600 the time has come now when we will 00:13:05.820 --> 00:13:07.880 officially give the tribal house a name 00:13:08.680 --> 00:13:12.140 we have protocols, we have traditions 00:13:15.700 --> 00:13:20.360 This house is unique because it has four clans in it. 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:23.800 Ordinarily it would be a single clan, 00:13:24.180 --> 00:13:27.400 but because it has four and we're 00:13:27.410 --> 00:13:32.910 giving an official name each clan will say the name 00:13:33.340 --> 00:13:35.400 Xunaa Shuka Hit 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:39.980 and everybody will say "Xunaa Shuka Hit, AHH! 00:13:40.660 --> 00:13:43.579 Everybody will say the same thing so 00:13:43.579 --> 00:13:46.919 we'll practice before I turn it over to say it. 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:50.040 "Xunaa Shuka Hit, AHH! 00:13:53.029 --> 00:13:55.970 That sounds pretty good! 00:13:57.000 --> 00:14:00.740 We believe that in our culture when the 00:14:00.740 --> 00:14:05.389 opposite clan says it you're breathing 00:14:05.389 --> 00:14:09.380 life into the person or building so 00:14:09.380 --> 00:14:11.060 that's what you'll be doing right now 00:14:11.060 --> 00:14:15.480 you'll be breathing life into the tribal house. 00:14:15.780 --> 00:14:20.360 I'll ask my brother to say it first, 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:23.340 and you'll have to repeat it after him. 00:14:28.380 --> 00:14:31.620 "Xunaa Shuka Hit, AHH! 00:14:32.980 --> 00:14:35.740 "Xunaa Shuka Hit, AHH! 00:14:36.680 --> 00:14:55.400 Tlingit Singing and Drumming 00:15:00.640 --> 00:15:03.560 Like our elders always said, 00:15:04.800 --> 00:15:08.160 "what we ever do is for our children and 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:11.440 our grandchildren's grandchildren." 00:15:12.160 --> 00:15:14.280 So this house is going to be here 00:15:14.300 --> 00:15:17.630 for many, many grandchildren. 00:15:18.880 --> 00:15:25.400 You know I I can't really explain how I feel.. 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:28.560 My father is Chookaneidí. 00:15:31.850 --> 00:15:35.490 My grandfather David Davis is Chookaneidí. 00:15:38.400 --> 00:15:44.390 I am Chookaneidí Yadi. So you know the other day 00:15:44.390 --> 00:15:53.209 was feeling kind of sad because the 00:15:53.209 --> 00:15:55.969 people that were not with us anymore. 00:15:56.560 --> 00:15:59.080 The ones that fought and told us the 00:15:59.089 --> 00:16:04.409 direction to go are not here. 00:16:05.040 --> 00:16:10.680 But it is a happiness too. I'm happy because they 00:16:10.700 --> 00:16:14.020 gave us direction and here we are. 00:16:14.640 --> 00:16:16.800 In a house that's going to be here forever. 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:19.000 For our young people. 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:25.560 I think that the young young people that are here 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:31.280 have to feel proud of what's going on today. 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:32.500 But anyway 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:44.640 When you've got government agencies that are working together: 00:16:45.040 --> 00:16:46.760 U.S. Park Service, 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:48.000 U.S. Forest Service, 00:16:48.380 --> 00:16:49.780 Hoonah Indian Association, 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:52.440 Government-to-Government relationships 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:56.760 that's the way it's supposed to be 00:16:59.220 --> 00:17:01.840 I wish the rest of the world could work like that. 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:04.160 It would be so cool! 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:09.460 Today we celebrate a long-awaited dream. 00:17:10.180 --> 00:17:13.199 We're drawn here to celebrate a building 00:17:13.199 --> 00:17:15.570 but that building is a symbol of 00:17:15.570 --> 00:17:18.830 something far larger for both the tribe 00:17:19.060 --> 00:17:20.760 and the National Park Service 00:17:20.760 --> 00:17:23.360 on its hundredth anniversary. 00:17:23.840 --> 00:17:26.340 The Huna Tlingit canoes have arrived 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:28.740 Leaders from the four clans 00:17:29.040 --> 00:17:32.880 driven by the ice from Glacier Bay are here. 00:17:33.220 --> 00:17:34.440 The Tákdeintaan, 00:17:34.980 --> 00:17:36.400 The Chookaneidí, 00:17:36.780 --> 00:17:38.140 The Kaagwaantaan, 00:17:38.560 --> 00:17:40.120 and the Wooshkeetaan. 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:45.120 As well as representatives from many other clans. 00:17:45.840 --> 00:17:51.140 The park is honored by the opportunity 00:17:51.300 --> 00:17:52.820 to be part of this great dream. 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:56.540 i am honored to be able to stand here with Frank 00:17:57.020 --> 00:18:00.160 and celebrate this great partnership. 00:18:00.560 --> 00:18:02.180 The Xunaa Shuka Hit 00:18:02.190 --> 00:18:04.560 will provide the opportunity to reach 00:18:04.560 --> 00:18:06.480 tens of thousands of visitors to help 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:07.650 them understand 00:18:07.650 --> 00:18:10.200 Tlingit culture and provide a potent 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:14.940 symbol of the connection of Glacier Bay to the Tlingit. 00:18:16.710 --> 00:18:21.250 She lifted up the side of the tent and start calling the ice 00:18:21.840 --> 00:18:24.360 like you would a dog. 00:18:24.420 --> 00:18:28.100 And her sister told her, "what are you saying?" 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:31.360 "This is taboo! You are not supposed to do that." 00:18:32.220 --> 00:18:34.320 And she ran to her mother and told her mother 00:18:34.320 --> 00:18:35.970 "what is my sister saying?" 00:18:35.970 --> 00:18:38.390 "She's called in the ice." 00:18:38.740 --> 00:18:41.940 We have four grieving songs that we sing. 00:18:41.940 --> 00:18:45.210 Its all about this place we still grieve after it. 00:18:45.630 --> 00:18:49.290 We still long for our homeland. 00:18:49.290 --> 00:18:52.570 We didn't give it up. It still belongs to us. 00:18:52.910 --> 00:18:57.750 We don't live here, but we still claim it as our Homeland. 00:18:58.600 --> 00:19:01.480 We tell a story we still claim Glacier Bay. 00:19:02.420 --> 00:19:03.680 Alright 00:19:04.110 --> 00:19:05.970 The house has a name. 00:19:06.520 --> 00:19:09.240 You heard the Chookaneidí story. 00:19:10.620 --> 00:19:15.180 And we're going to prepare for the second hundred years. 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:22.120 Tlingit Singing and Drumming 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:06.240 So I'm going to try to elevate your spirits 00:21:07.840 --> 00:21:10.120 as Tákdeintaan. 00:21:10.600 --> 00:21:14.960 Tlingit 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:19.960 We will never try to be offensive to one another. 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:24.920 We know we've gone through hard times before. 00:21:26.080 --> 00:21:27.720 To try to organize this celebration. 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:32.920 Today it is time for the Tákdeintaan 00:21:33.320 --> 00:21:38.680 to stand up and show that you can learn about the Tákdeintaan. 00:21:39.720 --> 00:21:44.840 That the more you learn about it you become more cohesive with the four clans. 00:21:45.800 --> 00:21:49.000 It is difficult to leave our homeland. 00:21:50.040 --> 00:21:52.640 I can still feel the spirit 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:59.120 Tlingit singing and drumming 00:22:15.600 --> 00:22:19.360 And outside we had a big rock pile. 00:22:20.260 --> 00:22:22.740 My grandfather Andrew told me you could see it. 00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:24.550 When he was a young boy. 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:30.680 It was quite a large rock pile. there's a rock for every person on that pile. 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:33.560 That's the way the Tlingits did things. 00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:37.480 They marked the place. That was their mark. 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:41.350 so Wooshkeetaan had the first mark in Glacier Bay 00:22:42.680 --> 00:22:44.760 by building the house on top 00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:48.600 because the Tlingits didn't build a house just anyplace without permission. 00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:52.320 But then if it is their land, they don't have to have permission. 00:22:53.410 --> 00:22:56.490 It was nobody's land, so they built the house up there 00:22:57.120 --> 00:23:00.160 and that's where are mark was first in Glacier Bay 00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:05.800 But then the ice came and people moved out. 00:23:07.030 --> 00:23:09.430 And after the ice went away they came back. 00:23:09.720 --> 00:23:13.800 Well anyway we didn't stay there very long because it was still freezing. 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:18.960 So we moved out from there into the village. 00:23:19.840 --> 00:23:22.480 A shark had the bullhead in his mouth. 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:25.040 The shark got into a fight with something, 00:23:25.760 --> 00:23:29.760 and he was losing so the bullhead swam out there to help him. 00:23:30.360 --> 00:23:34.480 And when he helped him he overextended himself. 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:36.970 He couldn't make it back to shore, 00:23:36.970 --> 00:23:39.820 so the shark picks him up and swam ashore with him 00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:41.160 to shallow water. 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:51.200 Singing and Drumming 00:23:52.280 --> 00:23:57.840 The canoe has an anchor. 00:23:58.920 --> 00:24:04.920 It's still keeping our culture alive. 00:24:06.840 --> 00:24:09.800 Tlingit 00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:13.840 Ancestral home of the Kagwaantaan. 00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:37.060 Tlingit singing and drumming 00:24:46.600 --> 00:24:50.180 A awe ee een kaxwaaneek 00:24:50.180 --> 00:24:51.780 Yaa ltudaneiyi Kaasteen 00:24:51.780 --> 00:24:55.000 Haa jee yateex’ yidaat 00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:58.780 November yaat aya 00:24:58.780 --> 00:25:01.780 haa ku.eexi gaxsatee 00:25:01.780 --> 00:25:04.360 ax shatx Lgeis’ 00:25:04.360 --> 00:25:08.240 kaa Jibbo Gaakeesh 00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:12.640 My brother Yeekaanaxduteen 00:25:15.800 --> 00:25:21.200 My grandmother told us since the time we were little kids 00:25:22.760 --> 00:25:24.900 She said, "What are Chookaneidí?" 00:25:25.360 --> 00:25:26.560 "What are they?" 00:25:27.840 --> 00:25:31.240 She said, "They're brave" 00:25:31.809 --> 00:25:34.209 "They were never afraid to die." 00:25:35.560 --> 00:25:37.600 These are the stories my grandmother told us. 00:25:38.840 --> 00:25:40.300 The story of Khasteen. 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:45.720 She says the things we've been learning keep us in contact with our ancestors. 00:25:46.600 --> 00:25:56.800 Singing and drumming 00:26:08.600 --> 00:26:12.960 The history of the Tlingit on the land was washed clean by the ice coming in 00:26:13.560 --> 00:26:15.400 and you know and so we've kind of 00:26:16.200 --> 00:26:19.080 made it so that people can better connect to that. 00:26:19.680 --> 00:26:20.200 The Park Service doesn't 00:26:20.200 --> 00:26:23.400 build "re-creations." 00:26:23.880 --> 00:26:26.559 This is not re-creation, this isn't a restoration of something 00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:30.640 this is a modern interpretation of the 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:33.039 core values and symbology 00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:35.530 of the Tlingit people. 00:26:35.530 --> 00:26:38.830 We specifically targeted not to just 00:26:38.830 --> 00:26:43.090 copy some some older design 00:26:43.090 --> 00:26:46.000 but to have people who are living deep into the culture 00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:48.169 interpret that. 00:26:48.169 --> 00:26:51.379 and to interpret it to an 00:26:51.379 --> 00:26:55.619 audience of their children 00:26:55.960 --> 00:26:59.600 and the public in way that they would understand. 00:27:01.040 --> 00:27:06.360 Tlingit drumming and dancing