Coast Guard Repatriates Alaska Native Remains at Point Spencer

By Petty Officer 1st Class Nate Littlejohn | USCG on Oct 4, 2021   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, Rural, U.S. Coast Guard-Alaska  

A plane carrying a box of delicately-packaged, unidentified human remains touched down on a dirt runway at Point Spencer, Aug. 12, 2021. A startled musk ox kicked up clouds of dust as it galloped against a Bering Sea backdrop. Coast Guard physical scientist Ian Putnam disembarked and breathed the 37-degree summer air with a solemn […]