History & culture in Klawock

The people and history of Klawock: museums, cultural centers, totem parks and historic sites. Every fact links to its source.

Klawock in brief

Klawock's Tlingit name is Lawáak. (sealaskaheritage.org · checked Oct 6, 2026)
Before Tlingit chief Kloo-wah brought his clan from a village in Moira Sound to settle for good, the Klawock site served as a summer fishing camp. (discoverpowisland.com · checked Oct 6, 2026)
A trading post and salmon saltery came first. Klawock's later salmon cannery was one of the first two in Alaska; the chamber's Klawock page calls it the first. (discoverpowisland.com · checked Oct 6, 2026)
Klawock is an important hub of Tlingit culture, and each year it honors Elizabeth Peratrovich's groundbreaking civil rights work for Alaska Natives. (discoverpowisland.com · checked Oct 6, 2026)

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Klawock Totem Park

Totem park

21 restored or replicated poles from Tuxekan, the Heenya Kwaan people's former winter village; the CCC developed the park in 1938–40.

Phone is the City of Klawock's. Near the edge of town, a heritage center has a longhouse and carving shed; visitors can watch and talk with carvers when they're at work.

Hours: Hours not published. Call ahead.
Phone: (907) 755-2261

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