Join Tlingit traditional healer, certified massage therapist, Historical Trauma and Healing trainer and ethnoherbalist Meda DeWitt for a virtual discussion of traditional healing practices and the importance of coming-of-age ceremonies, menstruation hut and women's rituals within Tlingit culture, past and present. In this session, DeWitt is joined by Yéil Yádi Olson and Bob Sam.

Yéil Yádi Olson is Tlingit - T’aḵdeintaan Raven of the Severed Head House from Xunaa Kawoo (Hoonah, AK) and a child of Scandinavia. He constructed the Seclusion Hut in collaboration with Meda as a member of the opposite clan Naanyaa.aayí, the White Grizzly Bear from Wrangel. Bob Sam is a member of the Sitka Tribe of Alaska and resides in Sitka and serves on the Sitka Tribal Council and has been active in local conservation issues.

Seclusion Rites: The Men’s Roles in Building and Protecting the Women’s House, a conversation with Meda DeWitt