A culture begins -- Journey from the sea -- Different groups --A culture of land and water --Creation origins of the Tlingit -- Building a civilization -- Kwans -- Tlingit dwellings and clan house living -- A society of moieties, clans, and nobility -- Crests -- Life in a Tlingit village -- Cycle of life -- Feeding a community -- Preparing food from the land and water -- Recipe -- Tlingit carving - how to dress like a Tlingit -- Traveling by canoe, trading -- Beliefs of the Tlingit -- The sacred -- Celebrating with potlatches - Tlingit religious beliefs - storytelling and legends -- Man and monster -- Overcoming hardships -- Tlingit hardship throughout history -- Changing way of life -- Preserving the Tlingit language -- The nation's presence now -- Alaska Native brotherhood and Alaska Native sisterhood -- The Tlingit Central Council -- The Sealaska Corporation -- Other tlingit organizations -- Celebrations -- Faces of the Tlingit -- William G. Demmet Jr. -- Katlian -- Elizabeth W. Peratrovich -- Shakes -- Rosita Worl =-- Chronology.