Tlingit & Haida celebrates the relocation of Amos Wallace's Porcupine & Beaver totem pole from the Forest Service office in Juneau, AK to the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center. In the 1980s, he carved the Porcupine & Beaver pole for the Forest Service office. As part of Tlingit & Haida's co-stewardship agreement with the Forest Service, the pole will have a new home at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitors Center where the Tribe's Cultural Ambassadors have been working to indigenize the space and show

The Tlingit language, rich in metaphor and deep in meaning, encodes the history, life ways, stories, and traditions of the Huna Tlingit. Widely spoken into the mid-20th century, the Tlingit language began to fade during a painful era of western acculturation. Language revitalization is critical, today there are fewer than 60 living fluent speakers. Read more: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/tlingit-language-our-grandparents-language.htm Learn more about Tlingit heritage: https://www.nps.gov/loc