With a focus on Native-owned businesses and locally sourced products, the One Sealaska Gift Guide is your one-stop-shop for gift-giving this winter and beyond. From accessories and apparel to art, food and more, the Gift Guide compiles a variety of Southeast Alaska’s small business offerings into one place, making it easy for you to keep your impact local this holiday season.
The Gift Guide features Native-owned businesses, and Southeast Alaskan entrepreneurs who have participated in Spruce Root programs. Use the dropdown menu above to navigate through the different sections.
This gift guide was produced in collaboration with Sealaska, Sealaska Heritage Institute, as part of the One Sealaska campaign. #onesealaska
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Savannahpants Art
Savannah LeCornu is an Indigenous artist from Ketchikan, Alaska, she is Tsimshian, Haida and Nez Perce.
Savannah primarily draws and paints in both traditional and digital formats, but she also beads. The focus of her shop is to provide the community with affordable prints that celebrate indigenous peoples.
You can find her available works in her Etsy shop. If you are interested in commissioning paintings or beadwork you can reach out via Instagram or email (lecornusavannah@gmail.com). She also has a Facebook and Patreon.
Seal Fur by Autumn
Autumn Shotridge, Yaandakin Yeil (Tlingit), creates unique beaded seal fur jewelry and accessories such as handbags, purses, wallets, headbands, hats, pop sockets, and more. Though she currently resides in Washington State, Autumn was born in Ketchikan. She developed her love of beading at a young age by learning from her grandmother, Esther Sea, the matriarch of the Teikweidee clan.
While seal fur is the main material that Autumn works with — it allows her spirituality to shine through, she said — she occasionally allows herself to pursue whatever sparks her artistic interest. She continues to introduce new items including barrettes, hair combs, ornaments, fanny packs, and baby shoes. Autumn welcomes commissions via Instagram.
Sealaska Heritage Store
The Sealaska Heritage Store offers a wide selection of Alaska Native and Northwest Coast art and gifts — from apparel and prints to one-of-a-kind, handcrafted carvings and jewelry. In addition to supporting Indigenous artists, your purchases help support Sealaska Heritage workshops, language revitalization, and education programs throughout the region. Visit us in the Walter Soboleff Building in Heritage Square or shop online.
Shx’at Kwaan Designs
Shx’at Kwaan Designs sells beaded earrings, pins, badge holders. With advanced notice Ethel can make full size octopus bags. Send Ethel a message on Instagram or Facebook to place an order.
Ethel Dando, Xixchi’see’s journey with beadwork started when her mum, Marge Byrd, introduced her to the craft, teaching Ethel how to bead and sew. It was Marge’s way of keeping Ethel busy and fostering her creativity. Even after Marge passed away, Ethel found comfort in continuing this tradition, beading almost every day.
Ethel makes an octopus bag using Marge’s original pattern (hand-drawn and cut from a Benjamin’s grocery bag).While Ethel still appreciates the traditional designs, like the seaweed and floral motifs, she also has started incorporating different native designs into her work.
Sitka Flowers & The Chocolate Moose
A shop for chocolate lovers. At Sitka Flowers & The Chocolate Moose, they use high quality and locally sourced ingredients to create small batch, gourmet treats in Southeast Alaska. Sitka Flowers & The Chocolate Moose is located on the charming, main street of downtown Sitka, Alaska. Owner Angela Ketah is Alaskan Native of Tlingit and Tsimshian descent and was born and raised in Southeast Alaska.
Skyáana Coffee Co.
Skyáana Coffee Co. was born out of Tina Isaac Steffen’s desire to honor her Tlingit and Haida heritage while sharing her love of coffee with her community. Guided by “the principles of our cultural core: respect for nature, tradition, and our ancestors,” Skyáana roasts the finest, fair trade sourced beans to the perfect peace and harmony of flavors.
Call Tina to order coffee 907-965-8902
Southeast Suds
Elana Cranston (Naashaawuu) started her small soaping business journey in 2021 out of her kitchen in Hoonah, Alaska. She’s inspired by Tlingit traditional medicine and harvests devil club, fireweed, dandelion, and berries with her husband and children to infuse into artisan body soaps.
The mission of Southeast Suds is to eliminate as much use of plastic as possible when creating body soaps. Our Earth is everything, and she believes we must do everything humanly possible to protect it.
Shop Southeast Suds for holiday favorites, including Raven’s Moon Artisan Body Soap *Christmas Edition*!
Taats Art/Designs Est: 1989
Kathy Kato Yates is a Tlingit and Haida artist. Tlingit name: TAATS (tots) meaning precious one. Belonging to the Kaach ádi. my Haida name is Xuuya k wiiáas meaning: old Haida precious Raven. My designs each carry a contemporary and traditional flare.
Each creation has my Trade Mark the Russian Trade Cobalt trade Bead with the Red Heart Bead too. The designs each carry their own legends featuring family, love, and happiness. A gem waiting for you in a haystack.
For more information, call 907-755-2115
The Cedar Box
Rooted in a passion for Alaskan Native art, culture, and communities, the Cedar Box became the first Alaska Native Gift Shop in Petersburg. Since opening in May 2018, Will and Christy Ware have been sharing Petersburg’s strong Tlingit history and culture through art, sea otter fur, jewelry, and deer calls. The Wares hope that the Cedar Box brings more awareness to the beauty and depth of Alaska Native Culture.