Tongass Voices: S'eiltin Jamiann Hasselquist on the power of traditional foods

This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly perspectives from the homelands of the Áak’w Kwáan and beyond.

S’eitlin Jamiann Hasselquist has been hosting weekly community soup nights this month in the Traditional Foods and Medicine Kitchen inside Sealaska Heritage Institute’s new Indigenous Science Building in Downtown Juneau.

She and her team use traditional Lingít foods to make soup for anyone who wants to try some — and maybe bring home the recipe to make themselves.

Last week, the group prepared chili with beef, deer and mountain goat meat. The last soup night is Wednesday from 6 to 7 p.m.

Listen: https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/TV_soup-1.mp3

The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.

S’eiltin Jamiann Hasselquist