Teacher Mary Folletti said she’s glad her “Elizabeth Peratrovich Rap” has made it back to Haines, her hometown.
Folletti was teaching Tlingit language and culture at Juneau’s Gastineau Elementary School in 2012 when she created the rap version of a song about the Tlingit civil rights leader. A Peratrovich song had previously had been set to the children’s tune “Bingo.”
“It wasn’t reaching the students at the fourth- and fifth-grade level. I decided to write…
