In 2013, Congress authorized the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian to establish a national veterans memorial for Natives. The Alaska community consultations of that national effort wrapped last week.
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Native wartime code talkers are subject of upcoming SHI lecture
The Sealaska Heritage Institute is hosting a series of noon lectures honoring Native warriors — past and present. Tuesday’s lecture is about code talkers, a group of Native soldiers who helped transmit coded messages during World War II.
Tlingit-Haida central council elects new president
Richard Peterson of Kasaan is the new president of the Tlingit-Haida central council
Tlingit code talkers receive recognition
Until recently, no one knew that Tlingits from Southeast Alaska also served as code talkers.