This article discusses the ongoing efforts to identify and repatriate the remains of Alaska Native people who died at government-funded asylums in the 1900s. Many of these individuals were never returned home, and volunteers, tribes, and family members have taken the lead in repatriation efforts.
Lifelong cemetery caretaker Bob Sam , a Lingít elder from Sitka, and his daughter Birdie Sam at a March 9 ceremony to honor the souls of hundreds of Alaska Native people who died at a government-funded asylum throughout the 1900s.
They included a disproportionate number of Alaska Native people, and in many cases, their families never saw them again. So a lot of families are just finding out, but some of them like Irene Dundas, this is the repatriation coordinator for the Ketchikan Indian Community, she had grown up with this family tale that her great-grandfather had been sent to to Morningside and nothing more was known.
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