Visiting Alaska as travel returns to normalcy christianpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from christianpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
On work trips to Juneau, Sitka, and more, an archaeologist watches the tourists return.
By
MacKensie Cornelius
3/15/2021 at 12:30am
Juneau, Alaska
We all have our own risk tolerance levels nowadays when it comes to leaving the house, whether itâs to exercise, get groceries, visit the dentist, see loved ones, or get to work. Itâs no different when it comes to getting the heck out of town. Some of us traded European adventures for a
 weekend in Vegas or distanced mountain getaway, while some have stayed hunkered down at home until tragedy struck. Others, like MacKensie Cornelius, started taking farther and farther trips for work. Sheâs an archaeologist, but her trips to Alaska over the course of 2020 turned her into a bit of an anthropologist, too.
Found: The Lost Tlingit Fort That Defended Alaska From Russian Attack atlasobscura.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from atlasobscura.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
(Drawn by Capt Lisiansky, engraved by I. Clark,via Wikicommons)
Southeast Alaska: Archaeologists Identify Famed Fort Where Indigenous Tlingits Fought Russian Forces By MEGAN GANNON - For thousands of years, the Tlingit people made their home in the islands of Southeast Alaska among other indigenous peoples, including the Haida, but at the turn of the 19th century, they came into contact with a group that would threaten their relationship with the land: Russian traders seeking to establish a footprint on the North American continent.
The colonists had been expanding into Alaska for decades, first exploiting Aleut peoples as they chased access to sea otters and fur seals that would turn profits in the lucrative fur trade. The Russian American Company, a trading monopoly granted a charter by Russian tsar Paul I just as British monarchs had done on the continent’s east coast in the 17th century, arrived in Tlingit territor
Archäologie: Letztes Fort der Tlingit gefunden sueddeutsche.de - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sueddeutsche.de Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.