Metlakatla

Thanks for having us on the show today, or me on the show today.

Uh, my name's Britta, and I am the community disaster program manager for the Red Cross of Alaska for Southeast Alaska, so Yakutat to Metlakatla, and I'm based out of Juneau.

I have been in this role for a little over six years.

My job is to support volunteers and support emergency management agency relationships and community partnerships.

The school carried out this mission, often while abusing children forced to attend there.

Leask wanted to know how many people from her hometown of Metlakatla, Alaska's only Native reservation, were taken across the country to Carlisle.

And so that was my starting place was Carlisle.

And I knew that maybe one or two people from my hometown went to Carlisle.

Lucy Spaulding and her sister Lizzie were among them.

The Tsimshian girls from Metlakatla in southeastern Alaska traveled thousands of kilometers to get there.

Not long after, they both became sick, and Lucy died at Carlisle.

Last month, over 100 years after her death, Lucy Spaulding's remains were disinterred from the institution's cemetery and sent on a journey home.

Myron L. Berktold is the niece of Lucy Spaulding.

She recently visited the old site of Carlisle Indian Industrial School to help bring her aunt's remains home.

We reached Ms. Berktold in Metlakatla, Alaska.

Myronelle, I'm wondering what emotions you're experiencing today now that your aunt is back home with her people.

Yeah.

Colby is from the indigenous Tsimshian people from a place called Metlakatla in Alaska, and he came to CHOP to show native solidarity with Black protesters.

Sgaay Laahl Lii Pum Tsagsx Dawayu.

Gishpuuwada dii ptagu.

The legislators kicked off the forum with introductions and discussed everything from the state's retirement pension to the ferry system.

Bynum, who represents Ketchikan, Metlakatla, Wrangell, and parts of Prince of Wales Island, says he wants to see things get built.

to see us make capital investments to keep our communities moving forward.

That means investing in our schools.