By Greg Knight
Chief Shakes VI remembered by descendants, family
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Photo courtesy Rose Johnson
In an undated photo, Chief Shakes VI, or Gush-klin, stands in front of an older version of the Tribal House on Shakes Island with a tribal member dressed in a bear costume in the doorway.
With the rededication of the Chief Shakes Tribal House only a month away, two local women who are blood descendants of Chief Shakes VI, the second to last leader of the Native community in Wrangell, are remembering him with their memories and a pre-1940 Potlatch photo of the Chief, who was born George Shakes in 1878.
Nellie Gunderson-Lewis Torgramsen, the granddaughter of Chief Shakes VI, was born in 1932 in Wrangell and is related to him through her mother Margaret, grandmother Minnie Snook, and great-grandmother Mary Shakes.
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