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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Gift Businesses
Tlingit Botanicals
Lisa Andersson Yak x waan tláa is T’ak dein taan from Tax’ Hit / Kaa Shaayi Hit, Xuna Káawu. Her inspiration in making traditional remedies from her culture is supplying a natural, environmentally friendly, and sustainably harvested products for her business Tlingit Botanicals. In addition, to keeping the knowledge alive. Knowledge handed down from our ancestors’. Lisa was fortunate as she inherited her mother Pauline Rudolph Andersson’s love for wildcrafting. An interest that continued on throughout her life, always listening to her elders and collecting knowledge. Lisa emphasizes that her knowledge is handed down, her remedies are from our past. She invites you to try her products from the temperate rainforest of Southeast Alaska. Follow Tlingit Botanicals on Facebook!
Tommaso Shellfish
Nestled in the crisp, cool waters of Sea Otter Sound, located near Prince of Wales Island, Tommaso Shellfish is growing and harvesting Pacific Oysters to bring the pure flavors of Southeast Alaska’s beautiful coastal landscape to your table. Place orders via email or phone.
Tradish Fish
Tradish Fish is a small fisherman-owned business processing the best Alaska homestyle smoked salmon in a unique way that is delicious, healthy, and shelf-stable for five years.
Shop on the Tradish Fish website!
Steve Íxt’ík Éesh Johnson is a Tlingit fisherman who grew up learning how to catch and preserve wild foods in Southeast Alaska. He brings culture and tribal values into everything he does. Steve says: “I am happy to bring this treat to you, based on our traditional Alaska Native way of preserving food. I love sharing it with you.”
SHELF STABLE FOR 5 YEARS
Trickster Company
Trickster Company is an Indigenous-owned design shop founded by siblings Rico and Crystal Worl with the goal to promote innovative Indigenous design. Trickster strives to represent a prestigious lineage of Native art in fresh and energetic ways as a celebration of Northwest Coast culture as it lives today.
Tsiin Designs
Tsiin Designs is a Ts’msyen owned creative brand specializing in Northwest Coast Formline art across apparel, accessories, home goods, and custom pieces. Every design is created by artist Tsiin Gyimgm Aatk, whose work blends traditional teachings with a modern, future focused style.
Shop at Tsiin Designs website, and learn more by visiting their Instagram and Facebook
Waterbody
Angie Flickinger creates handcrafted herbal body and skin care products inspired by and harvested from the wild, abundant forests and coastlines of Southeast Alaska. Combining sustainably hand-foraged local plants like Sitka spruce and rosehips with whole organic ingredients, Waterbody harnesses nature’s restorative powers to make self-care a meaningful and wildly beautiful experience.
Wildfish Cannery
Founded in 1987, Wildfish Cannery smokes and cans wild Alaska seafood, carrying on the craft and time-honored traditions of the region in the small seaside town of Klawock. With his background as a chef, owner and grandson of the founder, Mathew Scaletta takes great pride in working closely with fishermen to preserve their best catch.
For an incredible gift under $10, check out their canned, smoked coho!
Shop at the Wildfish Cannery website.
Wilgoosksm Gibaaw | Wise Wolf
Wilgoosksm Gibaaw | Wise Wolf is owned by Ksgooga Gwisgwaasgm Gyemk Janice Jainga-Lonergan, Tsimshian weaver and artist.
I’m proud to offer my unique Indigenous creations, both traditional and contemporary.
The woven, beaded & regalia creations are made with passion & careful attention.
Red and yellow cedar bark, grasses, ferns and devils club materials are harvested & prepared by me from the Pacific Northwest mountains and forests. I hope you enjoy my work as much as I enjoy bringing it to you.
With the Rain
Rayana is Haida and Tsimshian from the wolf clan. Rayana began selling SLUGS Fleece Boot Liners in 2009 at local festivals in her hometown of Ketchikan, Alaska, and on Etsy. She now sells at Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington and has been a crafter permit holder there for 10 years. She sells her rain boot liners, toddler dresses made out of recycled T-shirt’s and upcycled onesies.