History

Oct 22 2017
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This headdress was carved by the artist Kadjisdu.áxch, who is known for carving the intricate Whale House Collection. It is on display in this exhibit as an example of the art that is part of the Tlingit culture. (Photo by Emily Files/KHNS)

New Haines museum exhibit explores how a Tlingit stronghold gave way to non-Native settlement

By | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, History, Southeast

The Haines area used to be a Tlingit stronghold, ruled by an alliance between the prosperous Chilkat and Chilkoot people.  A new Haines Sheldon Museum exhibit explores how the Native territory gradually gave way to white settlement in the late 1800s. The exhibit will anchor the museum’s upstairs space for at least two years.

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Oct 11 2017
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Juneau Courthouse, April 29, 1922. In Alaska's territorial, Juneau was the site of three legal executions. Seven years after the last man was hung, the territory banned capital punishment. (Photo used with permission by Alaska State Library Photo Collection, P01-1073)

Racial disparity led to ban of death penalty in territorial Alaska

By | Crime & Courts, Curious Juneau, Federal Government, History, Juneau, State Government

“The fact is that after 1902, all of the people who were executed in Alaska were either racial minorities or ethnic minorities,” said attorney Averil Lerman. The last three men executed in the territory were an Alaska Native and two black men.

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Sep 20 2017
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The Igyararmiut, the residents of Igiugig, perform a traditional blessing dance. (Photo by Avery Lill/KDLG)

After 87 years in a Smithsonian collection, bones of Igiugig ancestors return home

By | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, History, Southwest

In 1931, a Smithsonian anthropologist excavated the bones of 24 men, women and children from a village site near Igiugig. After eight decades in the museum’s collection, those remains were reburied near their original places of rest.

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Sep 14 2017
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John Smith is struggling to replicate the ancestral work that volunteers have found at Nunalleq. (Photo by Teresa Cotsirilos/KYUK)

In Quinhagak, an ivory carver pays tribute to the ancients’ work

By | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Environment, History, Southwest

An exhausted team of archaeologists on the Bering Sea coast just finished their dig at Nunalleq for the year after uncovering hundreds of artifacts. They plan to return to the 700-year-old village next summer, provided the winter storms don’t wash it away.

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