A Years-Long Collaboration Sees a Traditional Tlingit Tribal House Return to Glacier Bay

A Years-Long Collaboration Sees a Traditional Tlingit Tribal House Return to Glacier Bay

People have lived in the area around modern-day Glacier Bay National Park, along Alaska’s rugged southern coastline, for at least around 3,000 years. Nearby, in Groundhog Bay, evidence of human habitation extends back a mindboggling 9,000-or-more years. In the mid-18th century, advancing glaciers forced ancestral Huna Tlingit people to abandon their homes. While they could visit certain areas occasionally to hunt and fish, the evolving condition…