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Honoring Gil Truitt, lifelong Mt. Edgecumbe Brave and caretaker of local history Posted by Erin McKinstry, KCAW | Feb 23, 2021 Mt. Edgecumbe High School Academic Principal Bernie Gurule pays tribute to Gil Truitt during a plaque dedication in the MEHS gymnasium on Tuesday evening. The plaque will hang in the entrance of the Gil Truitt Activities Center (Photo by Erin McKinstry/KCAW). Mt. Edgecumbe High School celebrated Gil Truitt Day on Tuesday (2-23-21) and honored the Tlingit elder and local historian with a plaque dedication and tribute. The holiday has been part of the school’s Founders Week celebrations for two years, but it’s particularly poignant this year, the first since the death of the former teacher and administrator last July. ....
5:00 The Sitka School Board recently decided to send the question of the name change to the Sitka Tribe, in hopes of identifying a “significant local cultural educator.” The hardest part about renaming the Baranof Elementary School will be who to name it for. At their last meeting on January 6, Sitka School Board members reported that their email was running near 100-percent in favor of naming the building after someone other than the 18th-Century fur trader who, as the first chief manager of the Russian-American Company, was the de facto governor of the Russian colony in North America. Alexander Baranov’s role in history won’t ever be unwritten. But in her testimony, former school board member Dionne Brady-Howard explained why honoring him with an elementary school remains a bad idea. ....
There was interest in changing the name of Baranof Elementary even before the last summer’s demonstrations to remove a statue of the 18th Century fur trader from in front of Harrigan Centennial Hall. Although Alexander Baranov was a major figure in Alaska’s colonial history, former Sitka School Board member Dionne Brady-Howard considers him ruthless. “He would have annihilated my ancestors if he had been able to,” she said. (KCAW file photo) Sitka’s Baranof Elementary School appears likely to have its name changed but what that new name will be, no one is quite sure yet. The Sitka School Board recently decided to send the question of the name change to the Sitka Tribe, in hopes of identifying a “significant local cultural educator.” ....
2020: The year we came together, living distantly Posted by Katherine Rose and Robert Woolsey, KCAW | Dec 31, 2020 Alaska Department of Public Safety Commissioner Amanda Price stands alongside photos of Jessica Baggen taken at her 17th birthday party in 1996. Baggen was murdered later that same evening as she walked home on the Sawmill Creek Road bicycle path. It wasn’t until August, 2020, that “genetic geneaology” was used to identify a suspect living in Arkansas. (DPS image) In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was like the pavement that all other stories rolled on- everything from school closures, the poor fishing season, the non-existent cruise season, to elections. Most news was propelled by the pandemic in some way. ....
Posted by KCAW News | Dec 17, 2020 Pictured, from left: Duane Lindoff, Izzy Jackson, Louise Brady and Dionne Brady-Howard. The photo was captured during the filming of . It is the opening scene to the film where the four in the photo perform the “Sheet’ká Kwáan Entrance Song” Filmmakers Louise Brady and Lee House of the Herring Protectors (Formerly Herring Rock Water Protectors) joined KCAW’s Katherine Rose to discuss the recent premiere of their film. “Yáa at Wooné (Respect for All Things)” premiered at the Anchorage International Film Festival last week. Listen to the full interview here: If you’d like to see the film, visit the Herring Protectors Facebook page here, where you can reach out to the filmmakers for a link. ....