The History of Icy Strait Point (Hoonah), Alaska, USA

The History of Icy Strait Point (Hoonah), Alaska, USA Icy Strait Point is the only privately owned cruise destination in America — and it belongs to the Huna Tlingit people of Hoonah, Alaska. This is the full history: how the Huna Tlingit were driven from their ancestral home in Glacier Bay by an advancing glacier in the 1700s and founded Hoonah in 1754; how the Hoonah Packing Company built its salmon cannery in 1912 and ran it for four decades before it went dark in 1953; how the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act created the Huna Totem Corporation; and how that corporation bought the dead cannery site in 1996 and broke ground in 2001 on a port built on their own terms — opened May 23, 2004, with the Celebrity Mercury's inaugural call. Chapters: The Port That Belongs to Someone The People Who Had to Leave Their Bay The Cannery That Built the Town The Act That Gave the Land Back The Ship That Came First The Zipline, the Dock, and the Second Landing What the Buildings Still Say Lovey's Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/LoveyKnows Booking inquiries: loveysays@gmail.com