A canoe that students created with master carver Wayne Price is the first of its kind to be built and launched in Angoon since the U.S. Navy shelled the Southeast Alaska village and destroyed its war canoes and winter stores in 1882. (Via AlaskaBeacon)
Angoon students paddle their dugout, war-style canoe into Chatham Strait from Front Street. June 19, 2023.
Jeannette Kookesh helps her nephew, Triston Rose-Shaquanie, with his regalia. Angoon students named and launched a dugout canoe on June 19, 2023. Community members Frances and Jesse Daniels waited with Floyd Jim and their children and grandchildren at a table on Front Street to watch the procession and dances.
The bombardment isn’t part of the school’s curriculum — “yet,” said Emma Demmert, the principal. She just finished her first year in the role and back in her hometown. “This is something we have never seen in our lifetimes. It’s a great honor to be here,” he said. “When the songs were being sung, I had a moment where I was tearing up because I’m so proud. Proud of them for what they’re doing.”He and Daniel Johnson Jr. explained the naming ceremony and invoked the history of violence and survival that deepened the canoe’s significance.
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