Word: metlakatla
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Little but sturdy is the village of Metlakatla, on rugged Annette Island in Alaska's Panhandle, 650 miles north of Seattle. Religion started Metlakatla, and religion has kept it going. In 1887 a Church of England missionary named William Duncan and a band of Tsimshian Indians, harried by differences with the Canadian Government and the Established Church, left their cooperative village in British Columbia and settled on Annette Island, in U. S. territory. Four years later an act of Congress gave them the land for their own. Today, in their fisheries and canneries, Metlakatla's 466 inhabitants make...
...supply lines of the northern bases while he strengthened his position for raiding against northwest U. S. Big Navy base in the Panhandle will be at Sitka, but other U. S. bases are being set up at Juneau and Ketchikan. A few weeks ago the Indian inhabitants of Metlakatla, on U. S.-owned Annette Island, descendants of refugees from religious persecution in Canada in the '80s, voted permission for the U. S. to set up a base on their reservation...
...Indian victims of Canadian religious persecution got U. S. permission to settle in Alaska, founded Alaska's first refugee colony at Metlakatla. They fished for salmon, now have Alaska's most prosperous municipality. With publicly owned utilities, a 60-piece band, Alaska's only municipal hall, modern Met-lakatlans have fine homes (onefourth have organs or pianos), own boats valued from...
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