Angoon student’s award-winning film spotlights healing after 1882 Navy bombardment

On this day 144 years ago, the U.S. Navy bombed Angoon, a Lingít village on Admiralty Island near Juneau. It killed at least six children. Clan houses, food caches and canoes were also destroyed. 

Just two years ago, Navy representatives finally formally apologized to the village for the devastating and deadly shelling. Angel Jack, 18, was at the apology. She and several high school students in Angoon created short films to document and capture what it meant to the community…(Read full story)