Zoe Manville, of the band Portugal. The Man, performs with Ya Tseen, Nicholas Galanin during a benefit concert for the Point House Revitalization Project which is an effort to rebuild a traditional Kiks.ádi clan house in Sitka’s historic Indian Village on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025 in Juneau, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

When Skeenyáa Tláa Nancy Keen, a Lingít Chilkat Valley resident, decided to create and donate a beaded wool octopus bag to fundraise for…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...