It's the first canoe of its kind since the U.S. Navy bombardment of Angoon in 1882 that destroyed all the village's canoes. (Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon) Two Tlingít villages in Southeast Alaska will receive apologies for wrongful military action from ...

The Navy’s attacks on Kake and Angoon led to widespread suffering. Generations later, Alaska’s Lingít people will receive a measure of justice.

The U.S. Navy apologized in a ceremony Saturday for the bombardment of the Alaska Native village of Kake in the late ... communities who its forces bombarded in Kake in 1869 and Angoon 13 years later. Rear Adm. Mark Sucato delivered the apology and is ...

Angoon School Principal Emma Demmert was invited by the U.S. Navy to take part in planning meetings early this summer for its October apology. She said she is hopeful for the future after working with Navy officials and seeing their openness and willingness to embrace Angoon’s cultural traditions.