“The land must be getting excited we’re doing this”: Wellbeing, Identity, and Reclaiming Language Through Connection to the Land

• Main Author: Schreyer, Christine
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Atlin; Stea; Taku; Taku River; Thornton; tlingit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/42053

In this paper, I discuss how language documentation and revitalization efforts have created a double sense of wellbeing in Taku River Tlingit territory – wellbeing for the community members, who are developing a stronger Tlingit identity, but also wellbeing for the land, which is growing stronger as...