The first academic and literary history of the Chilkat Valley’s Tlingit people and their eventual contact with Europeans and Russians will be released this month.
Dan Henry’s book “Across the Shaman’s River: John Muir, the Tlingit Stronghold, and the Opening of the North” tells the story of Muir’s contact with and conversion of the Tlingit.
Henry said his book, more than a decade in the making, started when he wrote his master’s thesis on the…
