Alaska Native Voices

Alaska Native Voices Alaska Native Voices provides cultural tourism consulting and training services as well as cultural interpretive programs and support.

Alaska Native Voices Consulting tailors tourism programs to suit the growing demands placed on destinations and providers. Emphasis is placed on helping communities effectively and respectfully share their cultural knowledge. Alaska Native Voices consultants use their expertise to provide clients with guidance and direction to highlight a culture’s unique experiences and convey them in a meaningfu

l and desirable way to visitors. Programs must balance cultural integrity with visitor expectations. The methods used open the door for travelers to explore and understand their relationships to sites, landscapes and human perspectives on a deeper level. Overall, programs help empower tour operators and cultural tourism destinations because they equip them with the ability to serve not only their community, but also their visitors. Consultants are closely involved with the Cultural Heritage Guide program in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve and Icy Strait Point, an Alaska Native cruise destination and an innovator in Alaska cultural tourism. Consultants draw upon these experiences and share practical lessons, in planning, delivery and partnership building with shareholders as well as with the National Park Service and government agencies on a local, state and federal level. Alaska Native Voices Interpretive Services has shared a cultural perspective of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve with visitors since 2000. Tlingit Cultural Heritage Guides spend full days aboard cruise ships as well as hosting cultural presentations at Glacier Bay Lodge each May through September. A total of 218 cultural programs were provided in 2014 which deepen visitors’ cultural connections to the park. Guides contrast historical and contemporary Tlingit culture through presentations, song, storytelling, language, informal interaction, displays of art and craftsmanship and provide personal perspectives, allowing visitors to grasp a greater sense of place and a meaningful understanding of Native culture.

06/14/2021

Well the cruise season is happening starting with small vessels now and on to large ships the end of July. Great to be working again. All throughout the pandemic I dreamt about being on a ship.

We are looking forward to seeing you in 2021 in Glacier Bay.
08/23/2020

We are looking forward to seeing you in 2021 in Glacier Bay.

05/23/2019

“Lukaax.áadi Trail Song” is in, Pomp and Circumstance is out.

05/08/2019

Rock Paper Fish, from the filmmakers at Wild Confluence and Nomad Island, takes viewers to southeast Alaska, where life is inseparable from the age-old rhythms of the Chilkat River. Every year all five species of Pacific salmon return to the Chilkat, drawing the world's largest gathering of bald...

04/01/2019

CASCADIA excited to present "Edge of the Knife" (Haida: SG̲aawaay Ḵ'uuna) as part of our Indigenous Filmmakers Program. The film is a 2018 Canadian…

11/01/2018






Panel on International Partnerships with Mario Fulmer American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association (AIANTA) Mira Poling Anseimi Adventure Travel Trade Association and Lu Lu and Aymeric Naudin from Sparkle Tours in Beijing, China.

09/24/2014

An important component of a tourism development plan for communities, indigenous peoples and Native hosts includes investing the time to define their own narrative. If you don't tell your own stories, someone else will tell them for you...

09/23/2014

Sharing language with visitors to your site is a sure-fire way to create an immediate connection. Everyone should learn to say THANK YOU in the native language of the location they visit. In Southeast Alaska, the Tlingit word for thank you is Gunalchéesh (gu-nawth-CHEESH). What other Thank you's can you share?

We recently were welcomed to present at the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association (AIANTA) annual conference...
09/22/2014

We recently were welcomed to present at the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association (AIANTA) annual conference. Director Mark McKernan shared insight on providing a successful familiarization (FAM) tour.

We are quickly approaching the last ship of our Glacier Bay Season. Our cultural Heritage Guide team provides cultural i...
09/22/2014

We are quickly approaching the last ship of our Glacier Bay Season. Our cultural Heritage Guide team provides cultural interpretive programs both ashore at Glacier Bay Lodge as well as afloat on large and small cruise ships. Our last Holland America Line ship of the season (pictured) will sail Glacier Bay later this week.

We at ANV recognize and appreciate the value of cultural tourism and the need to balance cultural integrity with respons...
09/22/2014

We at ANV recognize and appreciate the value of cultural tourism and the need to balance cultural integrity with responsible and insightful business growth. Our program Director enjoyed an opportunity to share this insight with attendees at the Stó:lo People of the River Conference in Chilliwack, British Columbia.

The Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) research project is an international collaboration of over 50 archaeologists, lawyers, anthropologists, museum specialists, ethicists and other specialists, and 25 partnering organizations (including, among others, Parks Canada, the…

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Juneau, AK
99801

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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+19077898542

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