Sealaska Heritage Institute Records | Sealaska Heritage Institute Archives

This collection consists of the records of the Sealaska Heritage Institute spanning the period of 1980 to the present. This collection will continue to grow as materials will be added annually and as the backlog of materials is processed. Processed papers include SHI Board of Trustee meeting papers, various committee meeting minutes, annual reports, and Celebration programs, correspondence, culture department papers, language department papers, papers from the non-active Na Kahida Theater, and records from SHI’s Juried Art Show. The collection has been arranged into Series (and in some cases Sub-Series), as shown below. Series 2 to 4 and 6 are open to the public for research purposes, remaining Series are closed to the public.

Series 1: Administrative Records

Sub-Series 1: Board of Trustee’s Papers

Sub-Series 2: SHI Reports, Minutes, and Papers

Sub-Series 3: Financial Summaries         

Sub-Series 4: Celebration Papers 

Sub-Series 5: SHI Correspondence

Sub-Series 6: Council of Traditional Scholars

Series 2: Language Department

Series 3: Cultural Department

Series 4: Education Department

Series 5: Scholarship Department

Series 6: Na Kahida Theater Records

Series 7: Juried Art Show Records

Series 8: Architectural Records for SHI’s Proposed Building

Series 9: NAGPRA Files

Sub-Series 1: Museum Files

Sub-Series 2: Museum Binders & Recordings

Sub-Series 3: Object Genre & Community Binders, Claims, & Working Files

Note: Many of the recordings generated by SHI are cataloged as MC 32: SHI Operational Recordings Collection.