Mt. Edgecumbe High School marks 70th anniversary

Students dance alongside Dancers by the Sea, a group from Port Lions, in celebration of Founders Week. (Emily Russell/KCAW)70 years ago, Feb. 22, 1947, the Bureau of Indian Affairs opened Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Sitka. BIA and other boarding institutions that operated in Alaska until the 1980s left some students traumatized, while others say it saved their lives.
Alumni from Mt Edgecumbe say their alma mater managed to avoid the darkest parts of that legacy. It reopened as a public boa