The National Trust’s annual list includes Eatonville, the all-Black Florida town memorialized by Zora Neale Hurston, Alaska’s Sitka Tlingit Clan houses, and the home of country singer Cindy Walker.
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Tongass Voices: Malin Babcock on a life intertwined with Juneau history
From the traumatic loss of her grandparents in Juneau’s 1936 landslide, to her long career studying salmon across the state, Malin Babcock reflects on her life in Southeast Alaska.
Historical markers are everywhere in America. Some get history wrong
The nation’s historical markers delight, distort and, sometimes, just get the story wrong.
‘Not in the business of just giving away our entire collections:’ Denver Art Museum denies Lingít claims for repatriation
Earlier this month, the Denver Post reported that tribal members have been requesting cultural items back from the Colorado museum for years — to no avail.
State grants will fund two maritime history projects in Bristol Bay
One of the grants will support sailing a restored double-ender sailboat from Naknek to Dillingham.
Pioneer of Western Alaska journalism Rosemary ‘Rosie’ Porter dies at 85
Porter was a fierce advocate for the people of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta as owner and editor of The Tundra Drums newspaper