{"id":25055,"date":"2017-01-15T09:02:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T17:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/village-to-see-artifacts-return\/"},"modified":"2017-01-15T09:02:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T17:02:24","slug":"village-to-see-artifacts-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/village-to-see-artifacts-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Village to see  artifacts return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BETHEL \u2014 <\/strong>The southwest Alaska village of Quinhagak is preparing to receive artifacts from an archaeological dig conducted in the area over the last several years.<\/p>\n<p>A team from Scotland\u2019s University of Aberdeen has preserved artifacts that include wooden tools and weapons, KYUK-AM reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>They will be given to the village later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Jones of the Quinhagak\u2019s local Native corporation has assisted in the process.<\/p>\n<p>He said it is important for the artifacts to be returned to the village of about 700 residents to help people understand where they come from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything we\u2019ve learned has been passed on from our grandparents, our parents. So to see the tools they used back then, and we look at what we use, everything is just modernized,\u201d Jones said. \u201cI think it\u2019s time to get back into the old ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quinhagak residents still hunt and fish with spears and fishhooks similar to what their ancestors used hundreds of years ago, Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>The artifacts are being returned to a village that is dealing with the impacts of erosion. The radio station reported that the village has been reduced to a small island with little usable land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BETHEL \u2014 The southwest Alaska village of Quinhagak is preparing to receive artifacts from an archaeological dig conducted in the area over the last several years. A team from Scotland\u2019s University of Aberdeen has preserved artifacts that include wooden tools and weapons, KYUK-AM reported Thursday. They will be given to the village later this year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-25055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25055"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}