Welcome to Haines/Deishú round two?

In his report to the assembly, Mayor Tom Morphet wrote that interim manager Elke Doom and he met with Chilkoot Indian Association tribal administrator Harriet Brouillette and – among other things – spoke about the borough placing signs reading “Deishú” in parentheses, under the “Welcome to Haines” signs currently sitting at Picture Point and on the Haines Highway. 

The borough already has carved Deishú signs; they were confiscated after someone…

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