A group from Kake embarked on a mid-June journey this week, traveling by canoe to Wrangell for a historic totem pole raising. Tribal and community members in Petersburg welcomed the visitors to town on Tuesday evening to rest and reconnect before continuing their canoe journey to Wrangell Island.
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Two self-described “amateur tanners” in Southeast are trying to build a community around turning animal hides into leather. At a recent workshop, they showed community members how to tan skins using bark, brains, and a whole lot of elbow grease.
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Navy representatives visited Kake this weekend to formally apologize for bombing and burning the village in 1869.
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A group of quakers from Oregon visited Kake last month for the annual Dog Salmon Festival as part of an ongoing effort to apologize for the religious group’s participation in the forced assimilation of the Tlingit people. They were there to return an assortment of cultural artifacts that had been taken out of the village over a century ago.
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A group of U.S. Forest Service personnel from the Petersburg Ranger District traveled to Kake late last month to help put on the annual Children’s Fishing Derby, where Kake youth practiced catching and identifying fish with the visiting scientists.
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Black cod could be a growing problem for salmon hatcheries across the state. Climate change is warming the Gulf of Alaska and bolstering black cod populations.
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The Organized Village of Kake laid the foundation for Alaska’s first modern clam garden in early August. The community hopes the project will preserve an important food source and keep traditional knowledge alive.
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The Kake Dog Salmon Festival returned last weekend and nearly 300 locals turned out to celebrate. But the event felt bittersweet as younger residents step into the shoes of a generation of Kake Elders.
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