Jan Steinbright

Jan Steinbright is a writer, oral historian, teacher and an artist. She has been involved with the administration and documentation of Alaska Native Cultural programs for 25 years and is the author/editor of Qayaqs and Canoes: Native Ways of Knowing and My Own Trail, the life history of Howard Luke, an Athabascan tradition bearer. For 18 years, she edited the Journal of Alaska Native Arts and served as program coordinator for the Institute of Alaska Native Arts in Fairbanks. She currently lives...See more

Jan Steinbright is a writer, oral historian, teacher and an artist. She has been involved with the administration and documentation of Alaska Native Cultural programs for 25 years and is the author/editor of Qayaqs and Canoes: Native Ways of Knowing and My Own Trail, the life history of Howard Luke, an Athabascan tradition bearer. For 18 years, she edited the Journal of Alaska Native Arts and served as program coordinator for the Institute of Alaska Native Arts in Fairbanks. She currently lives in Sitka where she spends as much time as possible on the water and walking beaches, when not teaching at Sheldon Jackson College. See less