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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 Edward Harriman Expedition removed a Teikweidi memorial pole from Southeast Alaska (1899). Or when anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička, a Czech-born anthropologist in the early 1900s known for unorthodox collection methods , such as stripping decomposing flesh from bones, or discarded the remains of an infant found in a cradleboard and sent it to the American Museum of Natural Hist ....
Heather Lende, whose memoirs chronicle life in Haines, is named Alaska State Writer Laureate Author: Anchorage Daily News Print article Author Heather Lende, who gained national recognition for memoirs of her life in Haines, has been selected to be Alaska State Writer Laureate for 2021-2023. Lende’s best-selling 2006 debut, “If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska,” chronicled her life in Haines and work writing obituaries for The Chilkat Valley News, her local newspaper. Lende followed that with “Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs” (2011) and “Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer” (2015). ....
Hooligan caught from the Chilkoot River in 2017. (File photo by Emily Files) The arrival of the hooligan, at one time, meant the difference between survival and starvation at the end of a long hard winter in Southeast Alaska. Traditionally hooligan, also known as eulachon, candlefish, or saak, provided not only food for the Chilkat and Chilkoot Tlingit people of the Upper Lynn Canal, but also medical, social, and spiritual well-being. Their arrival is often forecasted by the presence of gulls, ducks, seals, sea lions, and orca. Reuben Cash is the Environmental Coordinator for the Skagway Traditional Council and is working on the Northern Southeast Alaska Eulachon Population Dynamics Monitoring program. The purpose of the program is to learn more about these anadromous fish, their ecology, population dynamics, and distribution. ....
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