{"id":45561,"date":"2019-03-28T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/sitka-tribe-revives-tlingit-herring-party\/"},"modified":"2019-03-28T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T22:30:00","slug":"sitka-tribe-revives-tlingit-herring-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/2019\/03\/28\/sitka-tribe-revives-tlingit-herring-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitka Tribe revives Tlingit herring party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A &ldquo;Yaaw Koo.eex&rsquo;,&rdquo; or herring party, will take place next Saturday at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall in Sitka by two groups concerned by the state of the sac-roe herring fishery there.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/tribe-takes-state-to-court-in-attempt-to-protect-herring\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tribe takes state to court in attempt to protect herring<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The Sitka Tribe of Alaska and the Herring Rock Water Protectors are teaming up to put on the event, which spokesperson Louise Brady called &ldquo;a celebration of the herring and in particular the young Kiks.&#0225;di women.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Several months ago the tribe filed a civil case against the Alaska Department of Fish and Game over the way it was managing the sac-roe herring fishery in Sitka Sound as herring levels have dipped. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/sitka-tribe-gears-up-for-legal-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\">The case is ongoing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Yaaw Koo.eex&rsquo; is intended to mimic a Tlingit tradition that used to take place in present-day Sitka. Every year, large swaths of the Tlingit peoples flocked to the area for the sharing and enjoying of herring eggs.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/planet-alaska-woven-with-herring\/\" target=\"_blank\">Planet Alaska: Woven with herring<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They would camp out along all of the islands, that&rsquo;s how plentiful the herring were here,&rdquo; Brady said in a phone interview. &ldquo;So in a small way, we&rsquo;ve invited just a few paddlers, it&rsquo;s almost an all-women canoe crew coming from Kake and Juneau and they will be paddling in from Old Sitka or what what we call Ghaj&#0225;a H&#0233;en into the pullout by the (Harrington) Centennial Building.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The paddlers will then walk to the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 Contact sports reporter Nolin Ainsworth at 523-2272 or nainsworth@juneauempire.com.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebration for herring. 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