The Chilkoot Indian Association finalized its purchase Tuesday of the former Chilkat Cruises dock from Klukwan Inc.
CIA has been waiting since October for approval from the Federal Highway Administration to use the agency’s tribal transportation funding to buy the dock in Portage Cove. It first had to be registered in the Federal Transportation Inventory—a list of all the roads tribal members use in Haines, CIA tribal administrator Harriet Brouillette said.
“We got it in…

