History

The decision caps a public campaign asking for the change and months of deliberation by the Treasury.

The presentation was intended to acquaint the 50 or so Sitkans in the audience with the early history of land use. But for some, it also touched a nerve.

Uranium mining on Navajo lands ended in 1986, but the tribe is still suffering profound health effects. The government started cleanup only recently; many of the polluters have gone out of business.

Medicine Crow, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009, was also the last person alive to have heard direct testimony from someone who took part in the Battle of Little Bighorn.

A scrap of a play written in part by Shakespeare answers contemporaries who were angry that England was admitting religious refugees.

After a struggle that’s lasted more than a decade, ancestral remains long removed from the Kodiak Archipelago will soon return home.