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The Anchorage Daily News

The Fighting Eyak

By Marilee Enge
Published: January 22nd, 2008 05:08 PM
Last Modified: January 22nd, 2008 05:12 PM

Editor's Note:This story was originally published August 22, 1993.

Marie Smith Jones, 75, holds hands with John Johnson, the Eyak historian, during
a ceremony marking the bones repatriation.On the eve of the ceremony marking the
repatriation of Eyak bones, Marie Smith Jones waits nervously in a Cordova home.
The bones had been held at the Smithsonian Institution for more than 60 years.
he day they were to bury the bones again on the shores of Eyak Lake, the sky
was gray and clouds hung low on the dark green forested mountains that ring
Cordova. The last Native speaker of the Eyak Indian language dressed herself in
her beaded dance vest and headdress and waited nervously in a little borrowed
house not far from where she'd spent her childhood.

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