Raven House Mouse Goes to Culture Camp

Kagaak, a mouse who has been adopted into a Tlingit clan in Haines, Alaska, stows away on a bus heading up the Chilkoot Valley to a culture camp, learns more about the Tlingit culture and becomes significantly involved with the annual run of sockeye salmon returning home to spawn. Jan Steinbright is a writer, oral historian, teacher and an artist. She has been involved with the administration and documentation of Alaska Native Cultural programs for 25 years and is the author/editor of Qayaqs and Canoes: Native Ways of Knowing and My Own Trail, the life history of Howard Luke, an Athabascan tradition bearer. For 18 years, she edited the Journal of Alaska Native Arts and served as program coordinator for the Institute of Alaska Native Arts in Fairbanks. She currently lives in Sitka where she spends as much time as possible on the water and walking beaches, when not teaching at Sheldon Jackson College.