It was Oct. 26, 1882, in Angoon, a Tlingit village of about 420 people in the southeastern Alaska panhandle. Now, 142 years ...

The story of Angoon’s bombardment has been repeated for more than a century. But it changes depending on who is telling it.

The U.S. Navy officially apologized this week for the bombardment of Angoon, a native Alaskan village, in 1882.

The U.S. Navy has formally apologized for obliterating an Alaska Native village in 1882, the second such apology this fall.

When the Navy made its long-awaited apology inside Angoon High School, a clan leader drew attention to the veterans in the ...

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 ...

For decades, the community has been asking for an apology from the federal government for the bombardment, which destroyed ...

Matthew Carlson, of Klukwan and his son pose with Rear Admiral Sucato and Senator Lisa Murkowski after the Naval Apology for ...

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 — the U.S. Navy —has ...

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 — the US Navy — has ...