After a five-year process, the US Army will apologize to the Tlingit people of Wrangell for a 1869 attack. The apology is scheduled for January 11th, 2025, and will include US Senator Lisa Murkowski and Army officials.
It was 1869 and smoke filled the winter air. U.S. Army cannonballs ripped into Tlingit homes. The same type of artillery used against the Confederates just four years prior was now turned on the Tlingit people of Wrangell , in their homeland that they called Ḵaachx̱aana.áakʼw. One hundred and fifty-five years later, the U.S. Army is apologizing. The apology is scheduled to take place in Wrangell on Jan. 11. U.S. Sen.
Lisa Murkowski and Army officials will be in town to participate in the ceremony. This is the third apology the U.S. military has issued to Southeast Alaska communities in recent months. In September, Navy officers... The upcoming apology to Wrangell serves as a rare admission of guilt from the Army, something Wrangell Cooperative Association Tribal Administrator Esther Aaltséen Reese calls “the first step in being able to provide closure and healing.” Though long overdue, organizing the actual apology has been a five-year process, one that involved three branches of the military, hours and hours of grassroots organizing, and support from Alaska’s congressional delegation. In early 2020, representatives from Angoon, the Wrangell Cooperative Association and the Organized Village of Kake traveled to Juneau to meet with Gen. Thomas Bussiere of the U.S. Air Force to discuss formal apologies for all three communities. But the COVID-19 pandemic brought any progress to a halt. Reese said talks did not resume between the three communities and the military until the past 12 months. For Kake and Angoon — which were dealing with the Navy — their apology requests were quickly approved, and tentative dates were set. For Wrangell, however — which was dealing with the Army — the formal process was more drawn out. Reese said the Army initially informed her that it lacked the funding for the apology process in its $165 billion budget.“The Army was just harder to make some headway with,” the senator said Dec. 16. “It was frustrating”
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