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New lawsuit seeks to limit Alaska Native tribes’ authority, stop Eklutna gambling hall
The suit, filed by the state, challenges a legal interpretation that allows tribes to exert authority over as much as 2.7 ...
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3 of 6 Tlingit clans accept U.S. Army apology in Wrangell for 1869 bombardment
The U.S. Army apologized for the 1869 bombardment of the Tlingit village called Ḵaachx̱aana.áakʼw at a ceremony on Jan. 11 in Wrangell. Of the six Tlingit clans that received the apology ...
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U.S. Army delivers historic apology for 1869 Wrangell bombardment; three of seven clans accept
This story has been corrected to note the apology was offered to seven clans, not six. As voices became hushed and the crowd waited for the ceremony to begin, a toddler mumbled an inaudible ...
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U.S. Army delivers historic apology for 1869 Wrangell bombardment; three of six clans accept
The U.S. Army apologized for the 1869 bombardment of the Tlingit village called Ḵaachx̱aana.áakʼw at a ceremony on Saturday, Jan. 11, in Wrangell. Of the six Tlingit clans that received the ...
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Nonacceptance and the rationale behind the Wrangell clans’ response to the U.S. Army
To understand why these clans did accept the apology in full is also to understand Tlingit apologetic tradition.
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The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets
A system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more profitable ...
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US Navy will apologize for the 1882 obliteration of a Tlingit village in Alaska
It was Oct. 26, 1882, in Angoon, a Tlingit village of about 420 people in the southeastern Alaska panhandle. Now, 142 years later, the perpetrator of the bombardment — the U.S. Navy — is set to say it ...
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Proposed totem poles at Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center get icy reception from some tribal residents
Yaanishtuk Mike Tagaban said his understanding from talking with an area elder is “we had eight clan houses in our village downtown ... Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes ...
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The U.S. Army apologized to Wrangell clans for the 1869 bombardment of a village. Not all of them accepted the apology.
They were there to witness the U.S. Army apologize to the Wrangell Cooperative Association for bombarding the Tlingit village of Ḵaachx̱aana.áakʼw in 1869. The tribe lost at least five people ...