For decades, the community has been asking for an apology from the federal government for the bombardment, which destroyed clan houses, food caches, 40 canoes and left six children dead.
Rear Adm. Mark Sucato offers a gift to Joe Zuboff in Angoon on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024. On Oct. 26, 1882, the U.S. Navy bombarded the Lingít village on Admiralty Island, destroying clan houses, food caches, 40 canoes, and leaving the community for dead.
U.S. government documents at the time claimed other Lingít villagers took two of the white whaling crew as prisoners, and demanded compensation of 200 blankets from the whaling company. Lingít accounts deny that prisoners were taken. They only delivered about 80. As a result, the Navy attacked. Six children were killed in the shelling and an unknown number of others died in the following months from exposure and starvation.
“How do you restore a human being, how do you restore a family?” she said. “How do you restore a community who have been the target of annihilation?” “The United States Navy … apologizes on behalf of the United States Navy to all the Lingít peoples of Angoon for the pain, suffering and generational trauma inflicted by the bombardment of their village, acknowledges that the Lingít people of Angoon did not deserve nor provoke the bombardment and subsequent destruction of their village by US Naval forces,” he read.
Shgendootan George cries during the official Navy apology for the 1882 bombardment of Angoon. Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024. Angoon School Principal Emma Demmert gives a speech during the official Navy apology for the 1882 bombardment of Angoon. Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024.
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