The bombardment of Angoon on Oct. 26, 1882, killed several children. On Saturday, an apology was delivered by members of the U.S Navy, including Rear Adm. Mark Sucato, during a ku.ex, a traditional Tlingit ceremony. KTUU's Joe Allgood reports.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — 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 that elders sacrificed their own lives to spare food for surviving children. 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 apologized. Rear Adm.
Bald eagles and humpback whales abound, and the salmon and halibut fishing is excellent. Accounts vary as to what prompted its destruction, but they generally begin with the accidental death of a Tlingit shaman, Tith Klane. Klane was killed when a harpoon gun exploded on a whaling ship owned by his employer, the North West Trading Co.
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