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Here are members of the indigenous Tlinglit Tribe of Sitka, Alaska performing a sacred native dance. This story is about their travels. Notice the beautiful hand-painted artwork of the panels in back of the performers and also of the artwork on their drums and clothing. The dancers here are from the Raven and Eagle clans of the Tlinglit, which is a matrilineal society that developed a complex hunter-gatherer culture in the temperate rainforest of the southeast Alaska coast.
Sitka and St Petersburg Alaska
From the Alaska Experience Travel Guide to Alaska:
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Transcript:
Travelling from St. Petersburg to Sitka Cruising Alaska on an Alaskan Cruise
As the marine highway winds its way north , it stops
At many small towns along the way. For towns like wrangell,
The ferry is the main link with the outside world.
Locals use it for visits to other towns along the
Route and of course tourists and adventure seekers
Use the ferry to get to jumping off points such as this.
After the wrangell narrows, the bright
And beautiful town of petersburg beams a velkomen --
which means welcome in norwegian. And the people
of this town mean it!
The clear cold water and stately fjords on this extreme
Tip of mitdof island reminded peter buschmann so much
Of his native norway that he settled here.
Other scandanavians joined him and built petersburg --
An alaskan town with a distinctly european flavor.
as in other towns of the inside passage, the people of
Petersburg make their living from the forest and the sea.
the traditional norwegian art of rosemaling
Decorates buildings as it does in norway. Even the painted
Shutters here recall that other much loved place
On waters far away.
On days like this when the clouds part and the
Snow-bright mountains appear, petersburg is a
Place that's hard to leave.
But the marine highway goes on and another beautiful
city with a different history awaits.
Sitka rests at
the foot of spruce covered mountains and overlooks
The blue waters of the sound where a chain of small
wooded islands repeats the endlessly lovely theme
of forests meeting sea.
this desirable setting has made sitka one of history's
Prizes.
Sitka began as a tlingit indian village until the russian
alexander baranoff, the commander of a fur hunting
Party, built a fort here in 1799. The tlingit indians
Rebelled and in a surprise attack destroyed the fort.
baranoff retreated to return with warships and
Decisively defeated the tlinget. This plaque marks the
Site of the battle. Baranof then built a castle on this
Hill but only the cannon remains today.
Sitka soon became a flourishing town. It was here
that the russian flag was lowered in 1867 when the united
States bought all of alaska from russia for the then
Outrageous price of $7.2 million dollars. Sitka became
The capital of the new territory until the early 1900's
when it was moved to Juneau.
Timber, fishing, and government keep sitka thriving -
And tourism is growing. St. Michaels, with it's onion
Dome is one of the finest examples of rural russian architecture.
When this 150 year old church burned down in 1966,
The townspeople saved the doors and priceless icons
And rebuilt the church exactly.
This stately building is the first of five homes the
state of alaska has built for its older citizens. The old
pioneers home honors the original settlers of alaska and the
Statue of the old pioneer was modelled after skagway bill Fonda.
The sheldon jackson museum houses an
excellent collection of antique and modern indian artifacts
And totem poles. In its own way this native art is a forceful
and graphic history of the events that shaped the region.
Nearby, sheldon jackson college operates a salmon
Hatchery which visitors can observe from viewing platforms.
beyond the hatchery, the yacht harbor lies nestled
in a beautiful natural harbor....... One of the reasons
why sitka became the first capital of Alaska.
Sidney Huntington - Subsistance
SIDNEY HUNTINGTON was born in 1915 at Hughes, along the Koyukuk River. His mother was a Koyukon woman of the caribou clan with her own rich history. His father was a goldrusher, trapper, and trader who came to the Koyukuk in the early 1900's. They lived at Hogatzakaket, where the Hog River meets the Koyukuk, about 90 miles downstream from Hughes. Following his mother's death when he was five, Sidney, his brother and three sisters were sent to the Anvik Mission. Later, he and his brother, Jimmy, attended the Bureau of Indian Affairs school at Eklutna, where he completed the third grade. When he was twelve years old, he returned to help his father on the trapline at Hog River, where he learned many essential subsistence skills. At the age of 16, Sidney was on his own earning a living by trapping and fishing from their camp at Batza Slough. In 1937, when he was 22, Sidney took a job at the gold mine on the Hog River. Later, he married and moved to Huslia, where he lived mostly by subsistence in combination with cash jobs. In 1963, Sidney moved to Galena to take a steady job as a carpenter for the Air Force. Then in the 1970's, Sidney got into the fish processing business, which remains his main livelihood today. He served for 17 years on the Alaska State Board of Game. In 1989, Sidney was conferred an honorary Doctorate from the University of Alaska. Sidney still gets out to trap wolves, and every spring, it is usually Sidney who makes the first boat trip upriver after the ice goes out. His book, Shadows on the Koyukuk (Huntington, Sidney and Jim Rearden, 1993, Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books), details his remarkable life.
The goal of Raven's Story is to record elders' stories, observations, and experiences relating to wildlife, fish, and subsistence in the Koyukuk and middle Yukon areas of interior Alaska. This Raven's Story was produced by Mike Spindler at public radio station KIYU-AM in Galena, Alaska, with the support of Louden Tribal Council and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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