In his blog and quoted in the Nov. 11 issue of Chilkat Valley News , Tom Morphet states: “In the early 1900s, Natives approved transfer of land at the site [currently Tlingit Park] to the Presbyterian Church so the church could educate Native children at the Haines Mission.”
To think that Tlingit people living on this land approved transfer of land, or that they were even asked for the opportunity to take possession of land…