The Seward Pole: Indigenous Claims in Alaska’s Sesquecentennial
How does the Tlingit shame pole erected at Tongass Village in the 1870s (to ridicule U.S. Secretary of State William Seward for failing to repay the gifts he received from Taant’a Kwáan leaders) complicate the 2017 celebrations of the Alaska Purchase that Seward helped to orchestrate and assert Indigenous claims in the narrative of Alaska’s sesquicentennial?