Alaska Museum is Building a Private Database to Repatriate Kodiak Alutiiq Ancestors
An Alaska Native museum in the state’s Kodiak Archipelago is using a nearly $100,000 federal grant to build a private online database to help unite local tribes with their ancestors. The Alutiiq Museum—a non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve and share the culture of the Alutiiq Alaska Native tribal people— will lead the two year project, called ‘Angitapet’, meaning ‘We Are Returning Them’ in Alutiiq/Sugpiaq. The museum has identified at least 12 institutions in the US that hold the remains of at least 168 Kodiak Alutiiq ancestor...
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