Esther Aaltséen Reese (left) stands beside Mike Aak'wtaatseen Hoyt (center) and Katherine George-Byrd outside the post office last Saturday, the final stop on the walking tour before the Army's apology for its 1869 bombardment of the Native village. The post office now stands where the U.S. Army fort was once located.
WRANGELL - As voices became hushed and the crowd waited for the ceremony to begin, a toddler mumbled an inaudible question to their mother. Amid a sea of people packed into Wrangell's Nolan Center, the woman's response was clear and without question.
"The Army killed our people here," she said, "and now they're going to say sorry."
The U.S. Army apologized for the 1869 bombardment of the Tlingit village called Ḵaachx̱aana.áakʼw at a ceremony on Saturday, Jan. 11, in Wrangell. Of the seven Tlingit clans that received the apology, four accepted it, while the remaining three did not.
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