Sealaska Heritage Institute publishes book on historic fight to protect Indian Point

Sealaska Heritage Institute publishes book on historic fight to protect Indian Point

News ReleaseSealaska Heritage Institute (History) (Get the Book)Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has published a book documenting the historic and decades-long battle to protect Juneau’s Indian Point, considered to be a sacred site to Native people.The book, National Recognition of the Traditional Cultural Significance of X’unáx̱i (Indian Point), traces the saga that began in 1959 with a proposal to develop the site and culminated in 2016, when Sealaska Heritage Institute prevailed in an effort to list it in the National Register of Historic Places, making it the first traditional cultural property in Southeast Alaska to be placed on the register.