First Alaskans Institute announced Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n“It’s going to be really exciting to learn from other cultures and people, the professors that are going to be there,” Haldane said in an interview. “It’s just a great opportunity and I’m really thankful that I was chosen for it.”<\/p>\n
The event is hosted by FAI, Hoʻokele Strategies, Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu and Stanford University Woods Institute for the Environment. The program was set up to “cultivate and challenge indigenous leadership in order to impact our Fellows, families, cultures, communities, homelands and the world,” according FAI.<\/p>\n
Haldane, who is Tlingit and Tsimshian, was born and raised in Washington and earned an environmental studies undergraduate degree and environmental resource management graduate degree at Central Washington University. He played on the football team at CWU, and joined the Huskies football coaching staff this season.<\/p>\n
Haldane will be joined by Melissa Silugngataanit’sqaq Borton (Alutiiq), Martha Maalu Foster (Yup’ik), Jennine Qapqin Jordan (Iñupiaq), Dora Cikig’aq Moore (Yup’ik) and Alfred Sig̱oop Price (Ts’msyen\/Haida\/Tlingit).<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Contact sports reporter Nolin Ainsworth at 523-2272 or nainsworth@juneauempire.com.<\/b><\/p>\n
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