Episode 29: Harriet Brouillette; From Boarding Schools To Tribal Leadership In Southeast Alaska
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A family story can be entertaining, but it can also explain why a community looks the way it does. Sitting down with Harriet Brouillette, lifelong Haines resident and Alaska Tribal Administrator of the Year, I hear how one family line stretches from France to Louisiana to Southeast Alaska and then collides with some of the hardest chapters in Alaska Native history. The details are vivid: a grandmother sent to boarding school at age five, relatives lost to distant institutions, and the way paperwork and prejudice tried to rewrite identity.
We also get practical about what…
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