{"id":118846,"date":"2024-10-27T06:02:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T23:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118846"},"modified":"2024-10-27T06:02:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T23:02:47","slug":"us-navy-apologizes-for-the-1882-obliteration-of-a-tlingit-village-in-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118846","title":{"rendered":"US Navy apologizes for the 1882 obliteration of a Tlingit village in Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2014 the U.S. Navy \u2014has apologized. <\/p>\n<p>Rear Adm. Mark Sucato, the commander of the Navy\u2019s northwest region, issued the apology during an at-times emotional ceremony Saturday, the anniversary of the atrocity. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Navy recognizes the pain and suffering inflicted upon the Tlingit people, and we acknowledge these wrongful actions resulted in the loss of life, the loss of resources, the loss of culture, and created and inflicted intergenerational trauma on these clans,\u201d he said during the ceremony, which was livestreamed from Angoon. \u201cThe Navy takes the significance of this action very, very seriously and knows an apology is long overdue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the rebuilt Angoon received $90,000 <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/sites\/doi.gov\/files\/T-0810.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a settlement<\/a><\/span> with the Department of Interior in 1973, village leaders have for decades sought an apology as well, beginning each yearly remembrance by asking three times, \u201cIs there anyone here from the Navy to apologize?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can imagine the generations of people that have died since 1882 that have wondered what had happened, why it happened, and wanted an apology of some sort, because in our minds, we didn\u2019t do anything wrong,\u201d said Daniel Johnson Jr., a tribal head in Angoon. <\/p>\n<p>The attack was one of a series of conflicts between the American military and Alaska Natives in the years after the U.S. bought the territory from Russia in 1867. The U.S. Navy issued an apology last month for destroying the nearby village of Kake in 1869, and the Army has indicated that it plans to apologize for shelling Wrangell, also in southeast Alaska, that year, though no date has been set.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy acknowledges the actions it undertook or ordered in Angoon and Kake caused deaths, a loss of resources and multigenerational trauma, Navy civilian spokesperson Julianne Leinenveber said in an email prior to the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn apology is not only warranted, but long overdue,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Angoon remains a quaint village of about 420 people, with colorful old homes and totem poles clustered on the west side of Admiralty Island, accessible by ferry or float plane, in the Tongass National Forest, the nation\u2019s largest. The residents are vastly outnumbered by brown bears, and the village in recent years has strived to foster its ecotourism industry. Bald eagles and humpback whales abound, and the salmon and halibut fishing is excellent.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy\u2019s version says tribal members forced the vessel to shore, possibly took hostages and, in accordance with their customs, demanded 200 blankets in compensation. <\/p>\n<p>The company declined to provide the blankets and ordered the Tlingits to return to work. Instead, in sorrow, they painted their faces with coal tar and tallow \u2014 something the company\u2019s employees took as a precursor to an insurrection. The company\u2019s superintendent then sought help from Naval Cmdr. E.C. Merriman, the top U.S. official in Alaska, saying a Tlingit uprising threatened the lives and property of white residents.<\/p>\n<p>The Tlingit version contends the boat\u2019s crew, which included Tlingit members, likely remained with the vessel out of respect, planning to attend the funeral, and that no hostages were taken. Johnson said the tribe never would have demanded compensation so soon after the death.<\/p>\n<p>Merriman arrived on Oct. 25 and insisted the tribe provide 400 blankets by noon the next day as punishment for disobedience. When the Tlingits turned over just 81, Merriman attacked, destroying 12 clan houses, smaller homes, canoes and the village\u2019s food stores.<\/p>\n<p>Six children died in the attack, and \u201cthere\u2019s untold numbers of elderly and infants who died that winter of both cold, exposure and hunger,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Jones, Tith Klane\u2019s nephew, was 13 when Angoon was destroyed. Around 1950, he recorded two interviews, and his account was later included in a booklet prepared for the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganlibrary.gov\/public\/digitallibrary\/smof\/publicliaison\/blackwell\/box-031\/40_047_7007434_031_005_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">100th anniversary<\/a><\/span> of the bombing in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey left us homeless on the beach,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>Rosita Worl, the president of Sealaska Heritage Institute in Juneau, described how some elders that winter \u201cwalked into the forest\u201d \u2014 meaning they died, sacrificing themselves so the younger people would have more food.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the Navy\u2019s written history conflicts with the Tlingit oral tradition, the Navy defers to the tribe\u2019s account \u201cout of respect for the long-lasting impacts these tragic incidents had on the affected clans,\u201d said Leinenveber, the Navy spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Tlingit leaders were so stunned when Navy officials told them, during a Zoom call in May, that the apology would finally be forthcoming that no one spoke for five minutes, Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>Eunice James, of Juneau, a descendant of Tith Klane, said she hopes the apology helps her family and the entire community heal. She expects his presence at the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only his spirit will be there, but the spirit of many of our ancestors, because we\u2019ve lost so many,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/navy-1882-tlingit-village-alaska-bombing-apology-b7da179eb05bd30afa373f9fc093305e\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) \u2014 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. 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