Lee Heinmiller, right, gives a tour of the ward at Fort Seward’s historic hospital building last week. The room was used by Alaska Indian Arts to carve more than 2,500 feet of totem poles.
Chilkoot Indian Association administrator Harriet Brouillette laid out a vision for tribal management of Fort Seward’s hospital building and the parade grounds’ tribal house last week during a statewide recreation conference in Haines attended by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski.