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US Navy will apologize for 1882 obliteration of Tlingit village in Alaska

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The U.S. Navy is set to say it is sorry for bombing Angoon , a Tlingit village of about 420 people in the southeastern Alaska panhandle.

The Navy acknowledges the actions it undertook or ordered in Angoon and Kake caused deaths, a loss of resources and multigenerational trauma, a Navy spokesperson says.

The village received $ 90,000 in a settlement with the Department of Interior in 1973 .

Eunice James , of Juneau , a descendant of Tith Klane , said she hopes the apology helps her family and the entire community heal. She expects his presence at the ceremony. "Not only his spirit will be there, but the spirit of many of our ancestors, because we've lost so many," she said..

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