The Navy officially apologized to the Tlingit community for a bombardment that wiped out an Alaskan village in 1882.
In 1882 the US Navy shelled a southwest Alaska Tlingit village and then burned what was left of the homes, food caches and ...
It was Oct. 26, 1882, in Angoon, a Tlingit village of about 420 people in the southeastern Alaska panhandle. Now, 142 years ...
It was Oct. 26, 1882, in Angoon, a Tlingit village of about 420 people in the southeastern Alaska panhandle. Now, 142 years later, the perpetrator of the bombardment — the U.S. Navy —has ...
It was Oct. 26, 1882, in Angoon, a Tlingit village of about 420 people in the southeastern Alaska panhandle. Now, 142 years later, the perpetrator of the bombardment — the U.S. Navy — is set ...
The U.S. Navy officially apologized this week for the bombardment of Angoon, a native Alaskan village, in 1882.
It was Oct. 26, 1882, in Angoon, a Tlingit village of about 420 people in the southeastern Alaska panhandle. Now, 142 years later, the perpetrator of the bombardment - the U.S. Navy - is set to ...
It was Oct. 26, 1882, in Angoon, a Tlingit village of about 420 people in the southeastern Alaska panhandle. Now, 142 years later, the perpetrator of the bombardment — the U.S. Navy —has ...
Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions grew so dire in the following months ...
The U.S. Navy ... leaving the village's surviving residents without food or shelter amid a harsh winter. “The Navy recognizes the pain and suffering inflicted upon the Tlingit people, and ...