2025 Traditional Games
Juneau, Alaska
April 4 - 6, 2025
Yaada.at Kalé: Juneau-Douglas High School
About
The Annual Traditional Games event is hosted in Juneau, Alaska each spring and includes 12 different games that test skills of strength, agility, balance, endurance and focus. These games are based on hunting and survival skills of the Indigenous people of Alaska and across the North going back hundreds of years. Athletes strive to perform at their personal best while helping and supporting their fellow competitors, no matter what team. This is the spirit of the games, to work together toward common goals and learn from the skills and values that allowed Alaska Native people to survive and thrive in some of the harshest conditions.
The Annual Traditional Games program is led by coach Kyle Kaayák’w Worl. kworl@tlingitandhaida.gov
2025 Traditional Games Program Sponsors
Gunalchéesh! Háw’aa’uu! T’oya̱xsut ‘nüüsm!
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Sealaska Heritage
Sealaska Heritage Institute operates as a regional native nonprofit organization with the mission to advance Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska.
Central Council Tlingit & Haida
The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Tlingit & Haida) is a tribal government representing over 33,000 Tlingit and Haida Indians worldwide. We are a sovereign entity and have a government to government relationship with the United States.
Sealaska
They are a for-profit Alaska Native Corporation owned by more than 23,000 Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian shareholders. Drawing inspiration from our shared heritage, to protect our community’s greatest and most important resources- the oceans, forests, and the people of Southeast Alaska.
Charlotte Martin Foundation
The Charlotte Martin Foundation is a private, independent foundation dedicated to enriching the lives of youth and preserving and protecting wildlife and habitat.
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UAS
UAS takes advantage of our location in Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest for study in the sciences and humanities. UAS offers both online and on-campus programs in the sciences, including marine biology, English, social science, liberal arts, business, education, construction, power technology, fisheries, maritime training, health sciences, and more.
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Travel Juneau
Travel Juneau is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to the visitor industry and its economic benefit to Juneau, Alaska.
Coffman Engineer
Coffman is a locally driven engineering firm reinforced by a national network of multidiscipline capabilities. We're entrepreneurs at heart who want to see your business and community thrive. To do work that matters, it matters where you work.
Juneau Community Foundation’s Blackwell Fund
Coffman is a locally driven engineering firm reinforced by a national network of multidiscipline capabilities. We're entrepreneurs at heart who want to see your business and community thrive. To do work that matters, it matters where you work.
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Trickster Company
An indigenous owned design shop founded by siblings Rico and Crystal Worl with the goal to promote innovative indigenous design. As designers they strive to represent the way in which traditionally rooted people represent themselves in modern context and fashion.
Pat Tynan & Rick Harris
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Partners
Juneau School District
BOARD OF EDUCATION MISSION STATEMENT: In Juneau, we partner to provide each student with meaningful, relevant, and rigorous learning experiences in order to graduate diverse, engaged citizens ready for a changing world.
Zach Gordon Youth Services
The Zach Gordon Youth Center is a free, drop-in facility for youth. All are welcome to come by for food, fun and friends. The center has a wide variety of amenities. From table tennis and pool tables, to a rock climbing wall and basketball courts. Available to youth of all ages.
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