Best photos of the week by staff photographer Michael Penn from Nov. 12-19, 2018.
Contact staff photographer Michael Penn at 523-2262 and mpenn@juneauempire.com.
Lauri Wilson, Region 1 Election Supervisor, and Regional Accu-Vote board member David Clover look over a questioned ballot from a Southeast district that failed to run through an Accu-Vote machine at the State of Alaska Election Office in the Mendenhall Mall Annex on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Regional Accu-Vote board member Mel Personett looks at a tally of questioned ballots from a Southeast district at the State of Alaska Election Office in the Mendenhall Mall Annex on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Tlingit Culture Language and Literacy Dance Group instructors Joshua Jackson, left, and Hans Chester from Harborview Elementary School dance with their students during the Voices of Our Ancestors Language Summit at Centennial Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Members of the Tlingit Culture Language and Literacy Dance Group from Harborview Elementary School dance during the Voices of Our Ancestors Language Summit at Centennial Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Torianna Johnson, left, Aiden Hood, center, and Marigold Lindoff of the Tlingit Culture Language and Literacy Dance Group from Harborview Elementary School address elders at the Voices of Our Ancestors Language Summit at Centennial Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Women dance with the Tlingit Culture Language and Literacy Dance Group from Harborview Elementary School during the Voices of Our Ancestors Language Summit at Centennial Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Tlingit elders David Katzeek, right, and Paul Marks, left, watch as Tyler Frisby, a member of the Tlingit Culture Language and Literacy Dance Group from Harborview Elementary School dance exits during the Voices of Our Ancestors Language Summit at Centennial Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Janet Burke talks about some of her father’s things on display at the Walter Soboleff Center as her brothers, Walter Jr., center, and Sasha, watch on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. Nov. 14 was named Dr. Walter Soboleff Day by the Alaska Legislature in 2014. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Ruth Demmert, left, and Florence Sheakley talk about how new words are created in Native languages at the Voices of Our Ancestors Language Summit at Centennial Hall on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Gabrielle Shaawatgoox George-Frank, of Angoon, sings a song to start the day at the Voices of Our Ancestors Language Summit at Centennial Hall on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Georgina Sydney, of Teslin, Yukon, has her picture taken by Sealaska Heritage Institute’s Nobu Koch at the Voices of Our Ancestors Language Summit at Centennial Hall on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Gavin Hudson, left, listens to John Reese, of Ketchikan, speak during a breakout session on the Sm’algya̱x language of the Tsimshian people at the Voices of Our Ancestors Language Summit at Centennial Hall on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Heather Gatti works on a cedar root bracelet at the Celebrating Our Ways of Life for Native American Heritage Month at the Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Master weaver Della Cheney hands Heather Gatti more cedar root to finish her bracelet at Celebrating Our Ways of Life for Native American Heritage Month at the Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
John Garcia talks about making bendwood boxes out of yellow cedar at Celebrating Our Ways of Life for Native American Heritage Month at the Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Alfie Price discusses Native languages at Celebrating Our Ways of Life for Native American Heritage Month at the Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Selena Beierly, left, teaches Carley Jackson about beading at the Celebrating Our Ways of Life for Native American Heritage Month at the Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Jackie Pata displays her grandmother’s headband while talking about regalia patterns at the Celebrating Our Ways of Life for Native American Heritage Month at the Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Pam Roth, a community volunteer leader of The American Red Cross in Ketchikan, talks about attending a Southeast Disaster Academy on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Juneau-Douglas’ Chance Thrinsky pushes the puck up the ice between Palmer’s Alex Nelius, left, and Easton Armstrong on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire
Juneau-Douglas’ Ronan Lynch is stripped of his stick against Palmer’s Darian Wilson on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire
Palmer’s goalie Tiernan O’Rourke blocks a point blank shot by Juneau-Douglas’ Dalton Hoy on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire
Senior Arias Hoyle is one of a number of Juneau-Douglas High School students looking to add “Yadaa.at Kalé,” the Tlingit name for Mount Juneau, to the high school’s name. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
