The shoreline in Kake in 2012. (Courtesy Photo/Alaska Division of Community and Regional Affairs)
The shoreline in Kake in 2012. (Courtesy Photo/Alaska Division of Community and Regional Affairs)

An unused U.S. Forest Service building in Kake may soon be a healing center for the community to move forward from generations of trauma after a boarding school harmed members of the Alaska Native population.

When Joel Jackson, president of the Organized Village of Kake, saw the building on an access road between Kake and Petersburg, he said he was surprised.…