Raegan Miller (KRBD-Ketchikan)

Community members in the small town of Whale Pass on northern Prince of Wales Island are fighting against the state’s plan to clear-cut nearly 300 acres of old-growth timber — including some within city limits. They’re concerned the clear cuts could hurt the town’s tourism industry and make landslides more likely, and time is running out to stop the timber sale.

A Ketchikan history teacher is writing a book about 19th century Tlingit history. Peter Stanton hopes to spend a year away from the classroom to document a time of transition for Native people in Southeast Alaska.

A graduate student from Colorado is spending the summer in Ketchikan researching the totem poles at the community’s Totem Heritage Center. It’s part of their work on a thesis about museum decolonization.But what does that mean, exactly, to a museum, and Native communities?