Documents detail island’s dark past

Wed, December 5, 2007 
Posted in Alaska News


The historic fur sealing factory on St. George Island. Photo by Annie Feidt, APRN.

For more than a century, the Pribilof Island fur sealing industry sent millions of dollars to the U.S. treasury. But when the operation came to an end in the early 1980s, the federal government left a legacy of mistreatment of the Aleut natives who live there.

Annie Feidt, APRN - St. Paul

 
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