By Greg Knight
Tléix' Táakw: A Shakes renovation year in review
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The Chief Shakes Tribal House, shown here in 2011, took more than a year and just over a million dollars to renovate.
The new Chief Shakes Tribal House did not reappear magically overnight. It took a number of years of planning, funding acquisition and construction to see it through to completion, which happened last week in Wrangell.
The following stories are a look back in time during 2012 – and what it took to get from there to here – and how the new Shakes House rose in place of its predecessor built in 1940 by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Jan. 26, 2012: Over the next year, the over 70-year-old Chief Shakes Tribal House on Shakes Island will be restored, and Todd White is now on board as projec...
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