The Long Way Home: Opening a tribal house and closing a divide in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

Submitted by miakah on Wed, 04/19/2017 - 10:59
Type: 
Literature
Publication: 
Siber, Kate. 2017. The Long Way Home: Opening a tribal house and closing a divide in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.
Year Published: 
2017
Organization: 
NGO
Description: 

It had been centuries since the Huna made the 30-mile journey by canoe from their current village, Hoonah, to their ancestral homeland in Glacier Bay National Park. They were ceremoniously returning to celebrate the dedication of a new Tribal House, the first to be built on these lands in hundreds of years.

Category: 
restoration, ancestral lands, restitution, reparations, Tlingit, Alaska, Archaeology, social justice, social climate, reclamation

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Website: 
https://www.npca.org/articles/1490-the-long-way-home#sm.0001ighzgs1ajufs3ze3w87y…