ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Navy Adm Mark Sucato is expected in Angoon Saturday to deliver a formal apology to the small town for the 1882 U.S. Navy bombardment that destroyed the Tlingit village.
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 —has ...
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In the remote Southeast Alaska village of Angoon, high school students are learning how to grow their own produce using hydroponic technology. The classroom facility gives students a hands-on ...
The apology is scheduled to take place in Wrangell on Jan. 11, with U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Army officials slated to ...
However, public reaction to the Angoon bombardment was a factor in the passage of the First Organic Act of 1884, where the Department of Alaska was organized into the District of Alaska ...
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In Wrangell, the Dec. 26, 1869, bombardment was preceded by an Army Christmas party inside Fort Wrangel (the town was spelled ...