Last week, Donald Weiha Hotch was sitting in the Jilkaat Kwaan Heritage center, patiently carving the base of a pair of chopsticks, when he looked up suddenly and said, “I got a grant to visit the museum in Juneau.”
Other students who were in a spoon-carving class with him listened as Hotch described his plan to visit the Sealaska Heritage Institute and Alaska State Museum to find out more about how his ancestors made their…