The last residents are moving to Mertarvik, as the local tribal government has deemed the village too unsafe to remain there ...

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 following months ...

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 following months ...

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 ...

a regional operations manager for the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. Plans for the future include “adding some erosion control along the damaged area” and some ...

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 following months ...

The bombardment and burning of Angoon, in southeastern Alaska, led to widespread suffering ... the Navy “shelled and burned the village of Angoon.” Among other acts of destruction, the Navy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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