The Haines Sheldon Museum will open its new exhibit “Everything from afar drifts ashore,” Friday, Oct. 20 at 5 p.m.

The exhibit is based on Dan Henry’s upcoming book “Across the Shaman’s River,” that details an encounter between a Tlingit shaman, a preacher and John Muir, which opened up one of Alaska’s last Native strongholds.

The exhibit will explore the Chilkat Valley from 1850, through the United States’ purchase of Alaska in 1867 to the…