At their May 7th meeting, the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly voted to donate nine collections of artifacts to the Alutiiq Museum. The objects, mostly stone tools documenting Native history, came from borough lands on the coasts of Afognak Island, Chiniak Bay, Womens Bay, and Woody Island. They were recovered during archaeological research, and have been […]
Almost ten months after Wassillie Gregory pleaded “guilty” to the charge of harassment in Bethel Court, that conviction has been dropped after a video depicting the incident in the Alaska Commercial parking lot in Bethel, and recorded on AC’s own surveillance cameras, spurred Gregory’s attorney to pursue the reversal. Gregory pleaded out to the charge one […]
Sealaska Heritage Institute will have a Grand Opening Ceremony for the Walter Soboleff Building on May 15, 2015. It will kick off at 8:30 am in front of the building on Seward St. with a formal ceremony, which will be followed by a canoe welcome immediately following the morning ceremony, then a traditional ceremony, scheduled […]
On Wednesday afternoon, a call went in to the Bethel Alaska State Troopers from the Tribal Police Officer in Tununak reporting that a man in that village was walking around the community with a handgun firing it into the air. The tribal officer identified the shooter as 26-year-old Greg Angaiak of that village. Midway through […]