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November 18, 1999

Native-American Remains Find Final Home in Alaskan Village

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Episcopal News Service
Donna Miller MacAlpine, Historian and Publisher of the Anvik Historical Society Newsletter

[Episcopal clergy and Anvi...]
Episcopal clergy and Anvik Tribal Council bury Native-American remains in Alaska. Mark MacDonald, bishop of Alaska, and the Rev. Trimble Gilbert, (right), pause at the gravesite in Anvik, Alaska, where Native-American remains that had been unearthed and sent to the American Museum of Natural History in the 19th century were reburied. The bones and related funerary objects were removed when the local Episcopal mission was expanded. (Episcopal News Service photo by Gwendolyn Cates)