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Wildlife, Solitude, And Forests
A few days into the cruise, I feel my body relaxing. I’m overcome with a sense of tranquility. During our cruise, we were the only humans in the area. But that was not always the case. Many years ago, the Huna Tlingit people lived in the Glacier Bay area. They were forced from their homes by glacial advances. Eventually, they returned when the ice retreated in the 1800s. They’ve spent most of the 20th century in conflict with the National Park Service over hunting rights in their ancestral lands around Glacier Bay. Recently, peaceful solutions allowed for the construction of the Huna Tlingit Tribal House in Bartlett Cove, affording the Tlingit people a gathering place on their ancestral lands.
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