City Creek Trail Construction

Petersburg Indian Association is partnering with Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition (SAWC), Clausen Museum, USFS Petersburg Ranger District, Petersburg Borough Parks and Recreation Department, and volunteers from the community to make four interpretive signs for Sandy Beach Park. The signs are funded by a Forest Service Resource Advisory Council grant managed by SAWC. The signs will focus on the archaeology of the Sandy Beach site from a prehistory point of view. 

Members of the group envision a new “outdoor museum” that tells an educational story about the natural features of and long-term indigenous relationships with the area. The site for the signs was chosen due to its popularity with locals and visitors, its outstanding cultural and natural values, and to promote relationship building between all the groups who manage, own, or steward the area’s resources. 

The four sign topics will cover: 

• The arrival of the Tlingits, 
• Fish traps, 
• Petroglyphs, 
• and shell middens. 

PIA has commissioned artwork for the signs. The artists are Janine Gibbons and Lisa Schramek Adams. The digital designer for the Hutli project is Corvus Design, Inc. from Juneau, Alaska.