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KETCHIKAN (KDN) — The Greater Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce has announced that the 4th of July celebration this year will feature parades and traditional associated activities with no COVID-19 related
Here’s former Larsen Bay resident and Alutiiq Museum executive director April Laktonen Counceller: “It was the first time where our people really began to understand why it was so important to have control over our own cultural heritage and by extension, our ancestral remains,” Counceller said. “It took years and lots of lawyers.” That repatriation request process began in 1987, and hundreds of those ancestors were put to rest in 1991. The Smithsonian repatriation isn’t covered under NAGPRA. Instead the Smithsonian based its policy on a 1989 law that authorized the National Mu...
29:04 In early 2021, the Harvard Peabody Museum issued a statement apologizing for its reluctance working with Tribes to return some remains and funerary objects. The social unrest of 2020 reignited the conversation of returning ancestral remains and sacred objects to their people. Since contact, Indigenous people and settlers have had a contentious relationship, particularly as settlers appropriated items from traditional Native homelands. These items include totem poles, funerary and cultural objects – even remains of Indigenous ancestors. Examples include in the late 1800s when the Edw...
Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Cape Fox Corporation Listens to Community Opinion Cape Fox CorporationApril 24, 2021 GMT Ketchikan, Alaska, April 24, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As many are aware, Cape Fox Corporation put in a bid with the City of Saxman to purchase and develop the property where the Saxman School House currently is located. Many concerns have been expressed by citizens to our executives regarding the plans for the development of this property. After listening to these concerns from our community, Cape Fox has de...
American Constellation on the Inside Passage, which is in the southeastern region of the state. Eight-night Southeast Alaska cruises will operate roundtrip from Juneau. 11-night Alaskan Explorer cruises venture further into the Inside Passage, Clarence Straight, Tracy Arm, and Glacier Bay. The longer 11-night voyages will also be offered roundtrip from Juneau, as well as from Ketchikan to Juneau. American Constellation in Alaska (Photo courtesy of American Cruise Lines) American Cruise Lines operates small United States-built, crewed, and flagged vessels, which hold just 100 to 190 passeng...