This paper looks at a 1968 speech by Jessie Dalton, a Tlingit woman from Hoonah, Alaska. Dalton’s speech was performed at a memorial gathering with the goal of removing grief from the mourning clan. To remove their grief, she uses here linguistic and cultural skills strategically. I utilize the concept of chronotope and fine-grained linguistic analysis to discuss the ways that Tlingit oratory constructs Tlingit space-time to promote community healing and decolonization. Through the discourse analysis, I show that Dalton collapses the time and space between the past and now, constructing worlds where the ancestors are in the same space as the living. To create a chronotope where the ancestors are present, Dalton uses linguistic tools such as demonstratives and focus marker spatiotemporal deixis to create proximity between the audience to the past. She also uses semiotic relations through clan motifs and objects, representing the past and used in the present to populate these worlds. Through these chronotopic worlds, Dalton reveals Tlingit understandings of time-space. These chronotopic worlds further create a space of precolonial contact for the living.