Over 140 years after the US Navy obliterated the village of Angoon, Alaska, the service has issued a formal apology. The long-awaited event marks an official acknowledgement of the destruction and ...

The Navy officially apologized to the Tlingit community for a bombardment that wiped out an Alaskan village in 1882.

The attack on Angoon was one of a series of conflicts between the American military and Alaska Natives in the years after the ...

(Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada) At first, fur traders came to the Northwest Territory bringing guns, blankets and cooking utensils to trade for buffalo robes. Soon whiskey became the ...

the North West Trading Co. The Navy's version says tribal members forced the vessel to shore, possibly took hostages and, in accordance with their customs, demanded 200 blankets in compensation.

The bombardment and burning of Angoon, in southwestern Alaska, led to widespread suffering and “inflicted intergenerational ...

Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Indigenous Coast Salish peoples of the Pacific Northwest had traditionally ... be measured by how many she had. Blankets woven of dog hair, often mixed ...

Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Indigenous Coast Salish peoples of the Pacific Northwest had traditionally ... be ...

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the North West Trading Co. The Navy's version says tribal members forced the vessel to shore, possibly took hostages and, in accordance with their customs, demanded 200 blankets in compensation.