Four youth filmmakers from Southeast Alaska, ages 13 to 17, traveled to Calgary, Alberta last week to share their work at the ...
In 1882, the accidental death of a prominent member of the Indigenous community of Angoon, Alaska, led to an escalation with the U.S. Navy. The Navy bombarded the entire village, decimating the ...
The Thayer Creek Hydro project would use a 40-foot high dam to impound water over an area of 7 acres. (Kootznoowoo, Inc. image) A new hydroelectric project on Admiralty Island has the green light – ...
The U.S. Navy made an official apology this week for the bombardment and near destruction of a native Alaskan village 142 years ago. Speaking Saturday in Angoon, Alaska, located about 100 miles south ...
The U.S. Navy has formally apologized for obliterating an Alaska Native village in 1882, the second such apology this fall. Saturday’s gesture came on the 142nd anniversary of the destruction of the ...
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Angoon students paddle their dugout, war-style canoe into Chatham Strait from Front Street. June 19, 2023. (Photo by Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon) Angoon students led a procession of regalia-clad ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions grew so dire in the ...