Sitka’s Blessing of Herring Rock warms hearts on a cold day in spring
The Herring Rock Blessing is a celebration of herring as they arrive in Sitka Sound to spawn, and an invocation of the renewal of life that comes each spring.
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Film screening connects Standing Rock to Herring Rock
Two films about resource extraction and the implications of colonialism will be screened in Sitka on Wednesday, January 10 at the Sheet'ka Kwaan Kaa Kahidi. Filmmaker Ellie Schmidt and organizer Alaire Hughey discuss.
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Honoring the man who saved Herring Rock
To mark the beginning of the herring egg harvest, members of the Kiks.adi clan gathered on March 22, 2015 to bless Herring Rock. Amid the prayers for safe harvest, the blessing this year was less about the rock and more about the man who fought for it's survival. KCAW's Emily Kwong was at the ceremony and sent this audio postcard.
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