“Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian people who live in Alaska all have tribes, clans and relatives on the other side,” says Richard Peterson, president of Southeast’s Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. He says over the years, many of those connections have been lost. Now, he says, they’re coming back. “I’m really excited that we could remove these invisible barriers, this invisible line that they call the border, that somehow successfully separates us so well. We’re doing away with that line,” he says. Peterson spoke at a recent program in Juneau about traditional life and changes coming to parts of northwestern British Columbia.Get the Story:
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