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Most of the produce in the village is flown in or brought in on a barge. The facility is a way for the community to have more control over the food that they eat.

The move will extend mine operations for up to 18 years, but the mine will be subjected to some new environmental mitigation and oversight along the way.

For decades, the community has been asking for an apology from the federal government for the bombardment, which destroyed clan houses, food caches, 40 canoes and left six children dead.

Kushx̱eet.éesh Bowers, also known as Kaasgéiy, was 5 when he moved to Juneau to grow closer to his Native identity.

Navy officials say apologies in Kake and Angoon are both “long overdue” and “the right thing to do”.

Angoon mayor Peter Duncan remembers first hearing about a proposal to develop Thayer Creek when Jimmy Carter was president. 

It was a celebration of enduring culture more than 140 years after the village was devastated by the U.S. Navy shelling.

The agency plans to dedicate more time to hearing concerns about the mine’s potential threat to subsistence activities around Admiralty Island, where it operates. 

This dugout canoe, or yaakw, is special. It’s the first one built in Angoon in 140 years.

Alaska has the fastest rising opioid overdose rate in the nation. More than 200 Alaskans died from overdoses in the last year.