Git Hayetsk uses dance to revise indigenous history

Git Hayetsk dancers perform their chief’s headdress dance honoring Smgyigyet (chiefs) and Sigidmhana̱’a̱x (matriarchs) on  March 25 at University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau. (Photo by Caroline Halter/KTOO)
If you’re a longtime resident of Southeast Alaska, you may have heard the story of the founding of Metlakatla, a community in the Annette Islands Reserve, Alaska’s only reservation.
It’s usually told like this: in the wake of a growing rift