Jan Steinbright Jackson talks with Karen Brewster and Kristen Griffin on December 9, 1998 at the Southeast Alaska Indian Cultural Center in Sitka, Alaska about...

1) The mission of and programs at the Southeast Alaska Indian Cultural Center.

Southeast Alaska Indian Cultural Center/ Executive Director/ technical assistance workshop/ Native Arts/ education/ Northwest Coast Peoples -- culture of/ Artists in Residence/ interpretive program/ cultural resources|

2) Arts programs at the Cultural Center.

tradition bearers/ artists -- contact with/ art classes/ apprenticeships/ National Endowment for the Arts|

3) Special projects at the Cultural Center.

totem pole/ ancestors -- honoring/ Indian River/ totem pole -- commemoration/ Russian occupation/ clans/ Kaagwaantaan/ Kiks.ádi/ Coho/ workshops -- protocol/ relations -- clans/ relations -- kinship/ history/ protocol -- ceremony/ party -- terms/ potlatch/ Tlingit/ protocol -- variance|

4) Protocol for Tlingit ceremonies, and the canoe carving project.

protocol -- definition/ ceremony/ balance/ Eagle/ Raven/ clans/ Tlingit/ Tsimshian/ Haida/ party -- rules/ carving/ canoe -- cedar/ Prince of Wales Island/ Sealaska Corporation/ Burkhart, Will/ Price, Wayne/ canoe -- naming/ protocol -- canoe|

5) Artists working at the Cultural Center, and the Center's relationship with Sitka National Historical Park.

artists -- selection of/ artists -- employment of/ classes -- teaching of/ studio space -- use of/ Sitka/ Cultural Center -- role in community/ Sitka National Historical Park/ National Park Service -- support of/ organization -- non-profit/ organization -- Native/ community -- connection to/ exhibits|

6) The Cultural Center's collections and their preservation and use.

art -- collection/ audio -- collection/ video -- collection/ National Park Service -- relationship with/ research/ art/ Cultural Center -- use of|

7) The Cultural Center's role in the Alaskan Native art community.

Alaska State Council on the Arts/ Cultural Centers -- Native/ networking/ organization -- grassroots/ art -- Native/ Native community/ National Park Service -- relationship with/ Bethel/ Barrow/ Ketchikan/ Totem Heritage Center/ Alaska Native Heritage Center/ Anchorage/ Cook Inlet Regional Corporation/ tourism/ local community/ Indian/ Aleut/ Eskimo|

8) How the Cultural Center funds its programs.

Institute of Alaska Native Art (IANA)/ cultural center -- statewide/ funding/ Congress/ Sitka National Historical Park/ grants/ National Endowment for the Arts/ canoe -- carving/ workshops/ Heritage Preservation Fund/ canoe -- video/ Alaska State Museum/ inventory/ Cultural Center -- establishment of/ Cultural Center -- first of its type|

9) The Cultural Center's influence on local Tlingit art, and its role in educating visitors.

Tlingit/ art -- influences on/ Cultural Center -- importance to artists/ Northwest Coast art/ "Sitka style"/ Juneau/ Haines/ art -- Tlingit/ art -- historic/ art -- contemporary/ visitors/ art -- connections between past and present/ exhibits|

10) Benefits the Cultural Center offers Park visitors.

Cultural Center/ visitors/ Totem Walk/ artists -- contemporary/ interpretation -- artist/ education -- visitor/ education -- culture|

11) The importance of involving elders in the Cultural Center's activities, and the unity which cultural activities provide.

Elders -- importance of/ advisory committee/ canoe/ Elders -- feeding of/ "warming the hands"/ clan leaders -- appointment of/ clan houses/ elders -- involvement of/ totem pole/ celebration/ clan unity/ celebration -- reason for/ totem pole -- meaning of/ totem pole -- raising|

12) The meaning of and stories behind the carving of totem poles.

Old Kassan/ totem pole -- meaning of/ storytelling/ totem pole -- carving/ culture -- relation to/ oral history|

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