Resident Sally Burattin will give a presentation on her early life as a Tlingit scribe 7 p.m. Thursday, June 30, at the Haines Borough Public Library.
Burattin’s presentation is titled “Speech, Life, History: Aux Xau you Gatugi, Being a Scribe in a Non-Writing Society.”
As a 3-year-old, Burattin was chosen by the head of the Frog house to be trained as his personal scribe. Burattin does not know of any other living Tlingit trained as…
