ANDREA: I’m Andrea Cadiente-Laiti. I’m Tlingit, Filipino yadi. My Tlingit name is Kaats’aan at.óow. I’m the fifth child; I have four older, four younger siblings, so I’m the middle child. My sister Barbara and I both hail from two houses in Angoon: the Shaanax Hít and the Xóots Hít.

BARBARA: My name is Barbara Cadiente-Nelson. My Tlingit name is Xáshk'ugé. Our clan house is in Angoon, of Angoon Ḵwáan. I’m a L’eeneidí Filipino yadi of the Taikweidí Brown Bear. I am number six of nine siblings that grew up on Starr Hill here in Juneau.

“Our parents are the ones that instilled our sense of place and our responsibility to this place. We had a mother and a father who were very well anchored in who they are and their purpose… and their purpose was us, their family.”