On the 142nd anniversary of the Angoon Bombardment in Southeast Alaska, the Navy formally apologized for the unprovoked ...
When the Navy made its long-awaited apology inside Angoon High School, a clan leader drew attention to the veterans in the ...
It was Oct. 26, 1882, in Angoon, a Tlingit village of about 420 people in the southeastern Alaska panhandle. Now, 142 years ...
Over 140 years after the US Navy obliterated the village of Angoon, Alaska, the service has issued a formal apology. The long-awaited event marks an official acknowledgement of the destruction and ...
The bombardment of Angoon on Oct. 26, 1882, killed several children. On Saturday, an apology was delivered by members of the ...
For decades, the community has been asking for an apology from the federal government for the bombardment, which destroyed ...
Dancers greet the Alaska Marine Highway vessel Hubbard in Angoon on Saturday. Rear Adm. Mark Sucato, commander of Navy Region Northwest, who arrived to issue an official apology to the village on ...
ANGOON, AK — On a cold and cloudy Friday afternoon, Tlingit clan leaders stood ready to welcome guests to Angoon. For millennia, the Tlingit have lived on Admiralty Island, or Xootsnoowú ...
This fall, the U.S. Navy issued two formal apologies to Lingít communities in Alaska for assaults committed over a century ago. On Oct. 26, one of those attacks was commemorated.