Forestry/Natural Resources Plants

Tlingit AaniAas gutú adí

by: KingeistíDavid G. Katzeek

Department of Education Grant Award 84.356A | Aan Yatxu Saani Deiyi, Noble Peoples Path

Tlingit Educational GoalsFor thousands of years the people of the Tlingit Nation taught their children about respecting the air, water, minerals and all other organisms. At gutú adí (organisms in the forest).

Goals for this Lesson

• You will know that a forest is made up of many different working parts.

• You will discover that forest stewardship is the responsible use and planning of forestland management.

• You will realize that you can be a forest "friend" or steward.

At gutú daat at has agooxsikóo.

Introduction to the Lesson

What do you think when you hear the word forest?

Kutl´kw – soil, mud

S´áxt’ – devil club

T´óok´- nettle

X´aal´ - skunk cabbage

Síx´Gaa – moss Aas - tree

Keishísh - alder

Shéix´w – orange alder

Aas guwú – tree stump

X´eedadi – tree stump uprooted

At t´áni – tree branch

Tl´áxch´ - dead tree branch

S´é - clay Séew - rain

Gagaan - sunÓoxjaa - wind