Sentinel honors Tlingit history with new masthead artwork

The Wrangell Sentinel has a new front-page masthead and logo, honoring the history and culture of the Tlingit people.

The new logo incorporates a representation of the Bear Up The Mountain Totem, with permission of the Naanya.aayi' clan.

The new artwork replaces a different totem that had been part of the Sentinel for more than 50 years until last fall when it was deleted from the newspaper logo at the request of the clan.

Bear Up The Mountain tells the story of how a bear led villagers up a nearby mountain to safety from flood waters.

"That bear is what saved us all from the flood and how we...

 
 

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