Smithsonian representatives wrap up information meetings for Native veterans memorial

Ozzie Sheakley, commander of Southeast Alaska Native Veterans, welcomes The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian to Southeast Alaska on Monday, June 12, 2017. (Photo courtesy of Sealaska Heritage Institute)In 2013, Congress authorized the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian to establish a national veterans memorial for Natives.
The Alaska community consultations of that national effort wrapped last week.
More than 86,000 Native Americans and Alaska Na