Donna Beaver Event

On April 18th, the LCC Honors Program and Lane’s Native American Student Program hosted Donna Beaver, an Alaska Native (Tlingit/Tsimshian), poet, and multi-disciplinary artist. The event was held over Zoom, where she gave a virtual presentation titled “Voices Under Sea Ice: Native Haiku, Poetry, Chants, Story and Song.” The presentation introduced the audience to Indigenous cultural landscapes, art, poetry, and music. Donna talked about the Tlingit clans, traditional Tlingit songs, the cultural connections between Alaska and Japan, totemic art, cultural locations and wildlife, and traditional Tlingit items. She also gave a brief history of her family’s clans and traditions.