The former Attu village site, where the bones were unearthed, is owned by the Aleut Corp. — one of several regional, for-profit corporations set up to benefit Alaska Natives. In an email, spokesperson ...

Soon, three dozen Attu residents — nearly the whole population of this Aleutian island — were rounded up and held in the village’s small school. A handful of men took to the hills, but eventually, ...

Then 881 Unangax̂ people were forcibly relocated. Forty-two people from Attu Village were taken prisoner of war, where 24 died.” According to the United States Geological Survey’s database of ...

That’s how long U.S. forces fought Japan for control of Attu, a small island at the end of Alaska’s Aleutian chain. From May 11-30, 1943, the two nations battled for control of the island that ...

The former Attu village site, where the bones were unearthed, is owned by the Aleut Corp. — one of several regional, for-profit corporations set up to benefit Alaska Natives. In an email ...