"Grandma Selina"
Selina Everson gives the benediction.
Ka Seix Selina Everson 85, was forbidden to speak her language when she left Angoon for Sheldon Jackson College, then a boarding school for Native children. Now, she's working to preserve the Tlingit language. At Harborview Elementary School, she's known as "Grandma Selina."
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