![]() ![]() But there was no mention of the Seward shame pole that had been erected a few months earlier in Saxman, a pole that protested Seward’s lack of recognition of Indigenous peoples at an early point in Alaska’s U.S. The speeches at the Juneau dedication hailed Seward’s vision for establishing an American territory in the North Pacific, even as they acknowledged that Seward ignored the claims of Indigenous people to the lands he claimed to buy. A few months after Tlingits dedicated the Seward shame pole in Saxman, a private party in Juneau dedicated a new bronze monument to Seward in the front of the State Capitol building. purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867-a purchase largely orchestrated by William Seward. Renewing Seward’s shame pole in 2017 is significant, as it is the same year that the State of Alaska celebrates the 150 th anniversary of the U.S. But after several years went by and Seward “did not repay either the courtesy or the generosity of his hosts, the Seward shame pole to remind the Tongass people of this fact.” ![]() According to oral histories among the Taant’a k wáan Tlingit, Seward stopped at Tongass Village on a trip to Alaska in 1869 and was welcomed by Chief Ebbits with all the gravitas and gifts befitting a fellow high-ranking leader. ![]() Seward for failing to repay the gifts he had received from Chief Ebbits, clan leader of the Taant’a k wáan Tei k weidí and one of the most high-ranking men at Tongass Village. The original pole at Tongass was a shame pole, erected in the 1880s to ridicule Secretary of State William H. In April 2017, a small crowd gathered in the totem park at Saxman, Alaska to dedicate a new version of a Tlingit totem pole known as the “Seward Pole.” The new pole, carved by Tlingit artist Stephen Jackson, replaced an older, deteriorated version, which was itself a replica of a nineteenth-century pole from Tongass Village. Photo by Hall Anderson, used with permission. 2022 Candidate Questionnaire October 21, 2022Ĭlose up of top of Seward’s Pole in Saxman, Alaska.Eyewitness Series Booklet #8 October 21, 2022.AHS Seeks Graphic Designer for Journal Redesign January 14, 2023.Alaska History Day is Coming up in April February 17, 2023.Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame Nominations Open Now March 8, 2023. ![]() Alaska Fisheries: A Guide to History Resources.Links and Resources for Cannery Projects.The Seward Shame Pole: Countering Alaska’s Sesquicentennial.The Legacy of Sitka’s First Ten Years Under the American Flag, 1867-1877.How the Treaty of Cession led to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.European Reactions to The Alaska Purchase.The Treaty of Cession & Alaska Native Rights.Eyewitness Accounts to Alaska Transfer Ceremony.Hayward Malcolm Hutchinson: 1832 – 1883.150th Anniversary of the Alaska Treaty of Cession.Votes for Women, Woman Suffrage in Alaska: A Resource List.Morgan and Jeanie Sherwood Alaska History Award.Cole Student and Beginning Professional Travel Scholarship Award Contributions to Alaska History Award and Special Award.The Barbara Sweetland Smith Pathfinder Award.Esther Billman Certificate of Excellence.Alaska’s Cultural Resource Agencies: Guardians Of Our Heritage.Statement on Monuments and the Need for More History. ![]()
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