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trueHeen Kweix'2006-06-15T20:37:00-08:002006-06-17T23:39:53Z2006-06-16T06:23:36Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20409958.post-115043901618084013
On May 30, 2006, our daughter, Anastasia (Annie) Jean Gamble was born. She is our first child and we feel so blessed to have her with us, healthy and happy. At 9 lbs. 4ozs. and 21 inches long, I don't think my wife or I expected her to be so big. You might agree with us, she's a beautiful baby.
Since my wife is adopted Chookenshaw, our daughter is also Chookenshaw. She is also a child offalseHeen Kweix'2006-05-27T13:22:00-08:002006-05-29T01:30:05Z2006-05-27T22:50:38Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20409958.post-114877023846955491It was a little over a month ago since I last wrote on this blog. I have been updating my main website making some major changes there. I figured for now, it would be best to write a short note here about things that have happened the last month and what is coming up in Sitka.
For starters, I was jogging through Totem Park one day and ran across some people from Lincoln, Nebraska who are herefalseHeen Kweix'2006-04-17T23:00:00-08:002006-04-21T06:56:52Z2006-04-18T07:23:17Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20409958.post-114534499730648463
Sitka is a small town. Visitors might think there isn't much to do here if they are passing through. But locals know better. It's a rare day when I have nothing to do. The City and Borough of Sitka actually covers the largest area of any city in the United States. That's because the limits span Sitka Sound. There are many opportunities to explore the area by boat and often times, be the onlyfalseHeen Kweix'2006-04-03T21:07:00-08:002006-04-04T15:29:38Z2006-04-04T05:57:38Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20409958.post-114413025863347587
After the hard winter comes spring. Sometimes it's a little more harsh than others. But it always starts with the herring spawn in Sitka. During this time, the whole area becomes a wildlife wonderland. Seagulls, eagles, seal, sea lion, and humpback whales are seemingly everywhere you look. And though the commercial fishing boats are a threat to the subsistence fishery, it's still an amazingfalseHeen Kweix'2006-03-17T20:12:00-09:002006-03-24T18:56:39Z2006-03-18T09:36:59Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20409958.post-114267461945769146
Over the last several years I've noticed a sobering trend as the wintertime ends. It seems many elders hang on until the very end of the season and over the course of a few weeks, one by one, the news comes that someone else in Sitka has passed on. This year has been no exception. It prompts me to write about how death in the Tlingit family is handled.
Keep in mind, there are many variations onfalseHeen Kweix'2006-02-25T22:44:00-09:002006-03-07T07:48:40Z2006-02-26T09:11:24Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20409958.post-114094508450070680It has been over two weeks since my last post. Though I try to post weekly about Sitka and Tlingit history, I found it difficult to narrow this next topic down. There will be a number of topics to come relating to Mt. Edgecumbe.
Mt. Edgecumbe High School celebrated Founders Day the week of February 20, 2006, and does so annually. One of the highlights had to have been the "Gathering offalseHeen Kweix'2006-02-16T22:39:00-09:002006-02-18T08:00:46Z2006-02-18T07:49:27Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20409958.post-114024896740348174In the late 1990s, I watched a documentary called The Land is Ours. It focused on Sitka and the Tlingit people's civil rights struggles in the early 1900s. The key figure in this film was William Paul. He was the first Tlingit lawyer in the United States. He and his brother, Louis, were instrumental in growing the Alaska Native Brotherhood into a political force. They used this along withfalse