Enlarge / This interpretive sign at the presumed “fort clearing” includes a reconstruction of what the fort probably looked like in 1804. (credit: National Park Service) In 1804, Tlingit warriors sheltered behind the walls of a wooden fort on a peninsula in southeastern Alaska, preparing to repel a Russian amphibious assault. An archaeological survey near […]
American Indians and Alaskan Native people have felt the burden of the COVID-19 virus disproportionately. The incidence of infections in native populations is about 3.5 times that of white populations, and the mortality rate is nearly double. Now, a group of Native American tribes are claiming that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin failed to swiftly distribute […]
American Indian and Alaska Native people have felt the burden of the COVID-19 virus disproportionately. The incidence of infection in Native populations is about 3.5 times that of white populations, and the mortality rate is nearly double. Now, a group of Native American tribes are claiming that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin failed to swiftly distribute […]