U.S. military to apologize to Alaska Natives for 1800s terror campaign

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Billy Jones stood overlooking the Alaskan village of Angoon and took stock of what the U.S. Navy had wrought.

Long spruce houses blasted apart by U.S. warships. Food stores burned. The U.S. troops responsible had gathered canoes — the village’s lifeblood — and smashed them to pieces. At least six children died, according to historical accounts, asphyxiated by the smoke of their smoldering homes.