With a focus on Native-owned businesses and locally sourced products, this local guide is your one-stop-shop for gift-giving this winter and beyond.
We’ve partnered with Sealaska and Sealaska Heritage Institute to spotlight Native artists and businesses as well as The Sustainable Southeast Partnership to highlight Southeast Alaskan businesses that are positively contributing to our communities, environment and economy. We are thrilled to produce this gift guide as part of the One Sealaska campaign, since we are all organizations with unified missions to better the region for our people, planet and future.
From salmon skin earrings to spruce tip skincare, check out our favorite products below! Use the tabs above to navigate through the different sections, and be sure to check out the Shop In-Person tab to support brick and mortar businesses in your community.
This gift guide was produced in collaboration with Sealaska, Sealaska Heritage Institute, Spruce Root, and the Sustainable Southeast Partnership as part of the One Sealaska campaign. #onesealaska
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Gift Businesses
Galanin + Klein
Jarrod Lkheinaa Galanin is an artist and co-owner of Galanin + Klein. He comes from a long lineage of Tlingit artists spanning multiple generations:
“My art is more than a career—it is a calling. I am in awe of the Tlingit art form’s visual language, how it can embody both simple elegance and infinite complexity at the same time. I grew up watching my father and my uncle, both professional artists who were also my primary mentors, practice and speak about this art and our culture, passing this knowledge on to me like a torch just as it had been from their grandfather before.
Though it was handed to me over the years in bits and pieces, in skills and stories, I understand now what it means to be a carrier of this torch, a holder of the ancient knowledge and beauty of Tlingit culture.
After weathering generations worth of forced assimilation, colonization, and institutionalized racism, this torch in itself is a feat of resilience and of defiance. I strive to stay true to those before me and to inspire those who come after me. I hope to leave my mark, my experiences and perceptions, before I too pass the torch onto the next generation of culture bearers. While it’s my turn to be a carrier, I want to share with the world the beauty and sophistication of my culture and its art. I strive to push myself to be the best at what I do while honoring the beauty of what was and what has yet to be. As a Tlingit artist, I want to inspire and invite you to see this beauty. I work in many materials, including silver, copper, fur, wood, skins, and more, and employ both traditional and contemporary techniques and materials as I explore my voice, strengthen my design, and express my experiences.”
Glasses&Curls
Glasses&Curls is owned and operated by Katrina Monta in Ketchikan, Alaska.
Her business has recently expanded to include original laser-engraved cutting boards and displays. She has ornaments, stickers and more!
Follow Glasses&Curls on Facebook!
High Tide Gems
Drawing inspiration from her rich cultural heritage as an Alaskan Native Tlingit Athabascan artist, the owner creates unique and meaningful pieces that reflect the beauty and spirit of my ancestry and Native Alaskan lifestyle.
With a deep respect for traditional craftsmanship, she strives to preserve and create art that represent my people. Each piece she creates is a fusion of traditional and contemporary designs, honoring the past while embracing the present. She uses beads and resin to create jewelry.
Through her work, she hopes to not only create beautiful jewelry but also to celebrate and promote the rich cultural heritage of the Alaskan Native community.
Follow High Tide Gems on Instagram and Facebook!
Kaigani Craft
Kaigani Craft was created by Jacinthe Demmert in 2018. It started as a craft daystall business at Pike Place Market offering one-of-a-kind hand printed clothing. Kaigani Craft now operates a pop-up shop in Seattle, Washington with inventory including: original basketry, jewelry, prints, paintings, and assemblage all made by Jacinthe.
Kanat’á X̱oo
Kanat’á Xoo is Indigiqueer owned and operated, selling formline stickers and beaded earrings.
They created a platform for other partnering Indigenous artists to sell their work. The goal is to build a collective of Indigenous artists from around the country.
Kéet Creations
Beaded Earrings by Kéet Creations featuring Afro-Indigenous Contemporary Designs.
Follow Kéet Creations on Instagram!
L’ook Beadwork
L’ook Beadwork is excited to share her beading/fur sewing addiction with you! She was born in Juneau, Alaska and spent my formative years in the quiet communities of Yakutat and King Salmon.
Her parents taught her to appreciate and utilize what the landscape had to share with them. Her mom strapped me to her back when she was a baby and carried her along on her trap lines. Her father took them fishing for silver salmon (coho-L’ook in Tlingit) every August. Her family continues to rely upon and appreciate the abundance of wildlife around them.
She spent my career working to conserve the special places in Alaska to make sure these opportunities and lifestyle are available for the next seven generations.
Follow L’ook Beadwork on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and Facebook!
Little Bear Designs
Xóotsk’ Amiah Johnson is a Tlingit, Koyukon, Athabascan and Filipina artist from Yakutat currently residing on traditional Dena’ina land in Anchorage. She is inspired by the traditional designs of her ancestors and land where they came from. She was taught to sew and beads by her mother and maternal grandmother and has been running her business and going to school full time for the last three years.
She loves to inspire others to create and teach other indigenous artists traditional art forms such as beading, sewing and weaving. Although Amiah does not accept customer orders, she frequently updates her website with items for sale and has a commission request form on her site for shops and special events. You can also follow her on Instagram (@xootsk).
Little Cub Books
Little Cub Books, LLC, an Indigenous-Owned Publishing and Printing Company, was created by Amanda Bremner and Benjamin Schleifman with the help of their cubs Tinaa, Daaskawaa and Nathan. Benjamin Schleifman is the creative mind behind the original designs found in our Coloring Books, which are also showcased on clothing and stickers. However, it’s important to note that the cubs hold the final authority in approving all print products.