Rosita Worl
56:48 - 57:31
"while we acknowledged that indeed Sitka was the homeland of the Kiksádi and also the Kogwantán, we said that we know that the Kiksádi have had a difficult time because the Russians are living there right in their homeland."
“while we acknowledged that indeed Sitka was the homeland of the Kiksádi and also the Kogwantán, we said that we know that the Kiksádi have had a difficult time because the Russians are living there right in their homeland.”
- Speaker
- Rosita Worl
- Timestamp
- 56:48 – 57:31
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Juneau
- Captured at
- August 28, 2026
From the transcript
We learned that. 3 Of our villages were bombed indeed in the late 1800s. So we have gone through all of this. And when we were publishing the— when we were deciding if we were going to publish that monumental work by the Dauenhauers and Lydia, we had these same discussions. And while we acknowledged that indeed Sitka was the homeland of the Kiksádi and also the Kogwantán, we said that we know that the Kiksádi have had a difficult time because the Russians are living there right in their homeland.
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