Tlingits migrated across the Bearing Strait to a new land, finally settling along the shores of Southeast Alaska. The early Tlingits made their home at Cape Fox in the Alexander Archipelago – a small chain of wind-stripped islands off the coast of the Alaska Panhandle – 53 miles southeast of Ketchikan, Alaska.

The Tlingits moved from the original Cape Fox village, settling in Saxman, Alaska. Today, Cape Fox Corporation (CFC) and the Cape Fox Cultural Foundation (CFCF) are devoted to educating the world about the Tlingit culture through our art and language.

Cape Fox Cultural Foundation (CFCF) began with a contract to operate a gift shop at the Southeast Alaska Discovery Center in downtown Ketchikan, selling U.S. Forest Service-approved educational and interpretive items.

CFCF has been working on an artifact preservation project made possible by a grant from the Collections Management Fund of Museums Alaska, with generous support from Rasmuson Foundation to safeguard and display artifacts repatriated by the Sanyaa Kwáan belonging to the Teikweidi and Neix.ádi clans from the 1899 Edward H. Harriman Expedition

CFCF developed a classroom space within our Cultural Center located in Saxman with funding from the Rasmuson Foundations Tier 1 grant and began hosting workshops for regalia making thanks to the Alaska State Council of the Arts, Community Arts Development Grant.

CFCF was awarded funds from the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association (AIANTA) for our Saxman Totem Park Restoration Project, where we will focus on having carvers re-carve the frog wall figures, install fauna and flora recreational signs and street signs to include the Tlingit language as well as beautification of the Totem Park. This project will be a joint effort by Cape Fox Cultural Foundation, Cape Fox Corporation, and the City of Saxman.