Members of the Tlingit Nation welcome with a traditional dance a recently returned Bear Clan Totem during a ceremony in Angoon, Alaska, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2003. The totem disappeared from the village i..
Members of the Tlingit Nation welcome with a traditional dance a recently returned Bear Clan Totem during a ceremony in Angoon, Alaska, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2003. The totem disappeared from the village in 1908 to reappear in Greeley, Colo., as a gift from the secretary of education for Alaska. The Tlingit village of Angoon was leveled by the U.S. Navy in 1882 after an alleged cultural misunderstanding.
