Author: Colette Czarnecki

Talk on the Rock: Coven Petticrew on dance revitalization, cultural healing and Tlingit dance group Ch’xasaan

Episode 84: Coven Petticrew has been deeply connected with revitalizing cultural dance for decades. He practiced it in the Aleutians and now he’s helping organize a Tlingit dance group in Wrangell, called Ch’xasaan. It acknowledges the first Raven village in the area and it means “waterfall town.” Petticrew talked with KSTK’s Colette Czarnecki on the meaning behind dance revitalization and how it’s a meaningful source for healing.

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After a winter storm collapsed grow tunnels, a local farm presses on

Dwane Ballou is giving me a tour of his family run small-scale farm, Oceanview Gardens. After the past six years, they are one of a few growers in Wrangell who supply the community with fresh produce and flowers. Our footsteps crunch under the gravel and ice crystals that settled on the ground. We’re looking at four of the farm’s grow tunnels, mostly with torn plastic hanging on the sides and no plastic on top. Dented and disjointed metal keep the structure of one tunnel standing. A couple months ago there was no wreckage, until the snow started falling. 

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Tlingit Phrase of the Week