21st Century land use
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Fish Traps of Heceta Island
According to Gillespie, “This evidence includes excavations at the Chuck Lake site on Heceta Island demonstrating the use of shellfish, marine fishes, and sea mammal hunting. This site produced microblade technology, dating to about 8,800 years ago (Gillispie, 2018, p.21). The Island had been occupied for a long time. It is reasonable to think a
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Decimation and Removal
In 1775, Bruno De Heceta introduced smallpox to the community, killing an estimated 30% of the population (Hunn et al., 2002, p. 33). It was reintroduced to the area again around 1801, 1836, and 1862 with an extrapolated mortality of 60-95% of the remaining population (Bean, 2020). My grandmother Eva was born in 1916 and
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The Family of Heceta Island
Daaw Hít – page under construction
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Who are the Tlingit People?
Few details exist about pre-contact and early contact times of Heceta Island. What does exist are fragments of information spread across many sources. The primary source of information is passed down through the transference of knowledge from one generation to the next through oral history telling. The next best is documentation made by ethnographers in
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Heceta Island Ecosystem
Ecosystem description. Place to keep adding what can be found https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228661117_Risk_Factors_and_Mortality_of_Black-Tailed_Deer_in_a_Managed_Forest_Landscape https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92534/milky-blue-water-near-prince-of-wales-island
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Active Geology of Heceta Island
What geological processes are actively affecting the region? In the last 100 years the most activity that could be measured at or nearby Heceta Island, which is not caused by humans, is tectonic activity. Here is a summary of that activity.
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Geological Formation of Heceta Island
Heceta Island has 5 volcanos nearby Glacial activity ReferencesKovarik, J. (2009, Aug 2). Karst and caves in Southeast Alaska. National Speleological Society. Retrieved from: https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd530375.pdf
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Chuck Creek Watershed
Chuck Creek is an ancestral water source for people that lived in the Warm Chuck Inlet. This area is one of the wetter climates of our country with an average annual precipitation of 138”. Chuck Creek is an outlet that flows from Chuck Lake.
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Whats in a name? Lingit placenames before Heceta.
Bruna De Heceta explored Southeast Alaska in 1775 as lieutenant acting as captain on the Santiago (Bancroft, 1886, p.197). The Island is listed as being named in 1879 by William Healey Dall of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (GNIS Detail, 1981). I could not find an original source for this. Browsing through “The works
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Where is Heceta Island?
Here is a clip that starts centered on the Chuck Creek watershed area, then zooms out, showing the entire planet. This image shows a callout of Heceta Island from Alaska. The article is comes from is: Risk Factors and Mortality of Black‐Tailed Deer in a Managed Forest Landscape – Scientific Figure on ResearchGate. Available from:
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Heceta Island Plants
According to the publication, Our food is our Tlingit way of life, food plants include black seaweed, salmonberry, thimbleberry, blueberry, fiddleheads, wild potatoes, wild celery, nettle, dandelion, goose tongue, devil’s club, and more. (Newton & Moss, 2009). Other plants you may see on the island are moss, muskeg, red cedar, and yellow cedar, as listed by the
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Heceta Island Animals
Traditionally one of the things that makes a great place to live is abundant access to food sources. According to Tlingit elder Elwood Thomas, the creeks had runs of sockeye, humpback, and dog salmon (Olson, 1989). The publication Our food is our Tlingit way of life adds but is not limited to black bear, beaver,
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