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BumRushDaShow

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Sun Sep 22, 2024, 04:47 AM Sep 22

US navy apologizes for razing of Native Alaska community in late 1800s

Source: The Guardian

Sat 21 Sep 2024 18.17 EDT


In a ceremony Saturday afternoon, the US navy apologized for firing upon and torching the Alaska Native village of Kake in 1869.

Surrounded by tribal Chilkat weavings, historic photographs and other Lingít artwork in the Kake elementary and high school gymnasium, R Adm Mark B Sucato expressed the military’s regret, in the first of two apologies planned by the military for bombardments of Alaska Native communities in the late 1800s.

“This has been 155 years in the making,” said Joel Jackson, the president of the Organized Village of Kake, of the apology to the Lingít (often known as the Tlingit) people. “It’s becoming real because we never talked about it and now we are.”

The event also included remarks from other tribal leaders and elders, a blessing from the tribe and a navy chaplain, and performances by the local Native Ḵéex’ Ḵwáan Dancers and the navy band. A second ceremony is planned for 26 October, the 142nd anniversary of the navy’s 1882 bombardment of the nearby village of Angoon.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/21/us-navy-to-apologize-for-razing-of-native-alaska-community-in-late-1800s

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US navy apologizes for razing of Native Alaska community in late 1800s (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 22 OP
Will our military now publicly stand against the brutalization of civilian populations of every kind? Think. Again. Sep 22 #1
The Kake War EX500rider Sep 22 #2
Thanks for the info Bayard Sep 22 #3

Think. Again.

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1. Will our military now publicly stand against the brutalization of civilian populations of every kind?
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 05:39 AM
Sep 22

Yet to be seen.

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