Eunic Akagi
Story last updated at 11/16/2009 - 10:28 am
Age: 89.
Residency: Juneau but born in Sitka.
Tribe, moiety, clan: Tlingit, Eagle (KaagWaanTaan), Killer Whale
Positions: Past president and life member Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary, life member Alaska Native Sisterhood, B-17 riveter at Boeing in World War II.
Hobbies: Singing, reminiscing with people about the old cannery days in Alaska, Tlingit culture classes.
Quote: "National Native American Awareness Month reminds me of how proud my father was we were four-fourths Tlingit and how my grandmother described the American flag-raising ceremony in Sitka in 1867. She was a young girl, but she was there and told me about it and other stories of Tlingit life in those days."
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