AK: For Tlingit engineer, Juneau bridge connects Alaskans

More than 100 years after the creation of the Alaska Native Brotherhood, a new bridge in Juneau has been named in honor of the Native organization. But it’s not the first. The predecessor to the current bridge was actually designed by a man who has his own unique and interesting ties to the Alaska Native civil rights movement.
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Roy Peratrovich Jr. stands next to one of the bronze medallions he designed for the first Brotherhood Bridge created in 1965. The medallions wer