Bishop 1985 North Douglas road extension
Twenty-seven crossings of Ḵaalahéenak’u North Douglas Highway’s irritating dead-end has always seemed an affront to public-spirited builders. According to Dan…
1985 | Dan Bishop | 34 pages
Geopdf from LiDAR for lower Kaalahéenak’u watershed.
Ḵaalahéenak’u, inside a person’s mouth (Peterson Creek)
In August, 1794, rowing through Áak’w, Aaní, Joseph Whidbey must have noted a L’eeneidí village or at least summer fish camp near what we today call “Outer Point.” I say ‘must have,’ because his original journals disappeared after confiscation by his commander George Vancouver.
In his second-hand account of the Áak’w encounters, Vancouver (who was sick on the outer coast and never saw Áak’w country) casually mentioned “the point on which the northern village is situated,” as if it had before been mapped or described. From my league-by-league cross-referencing of Vancouver and Menzies journals, this “point” was clearly the northern tip of Sayeik, spirit helper:
“which after the Bishop of Salisbury, I named Douglas’s Island.” GV
Hmmmph! Only one of dozens of colonial names) honoring distant dead dignitaries, by another white dude who never laid eyes on our home.
And where, exactly, was that “village?”
Surficial geology of the Outer Point area, based upon USGS map by R.D. Miller, 1975.
Even the surviving place names— Ḵaalahéenak’u, inside a person’s mouth, and Deishú Áak’w, little lake at end of trail-–are shrouded in mystery, their stories lost to time. What is the “mouth?” And where (if it even still exists) is that “little lake?” A couple centuries of storms and glacial rebound have remodeled the landforms and habitats here.
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1995 Student guide to Outer Point
Take a hike … Exploring a favorite Juneau trail In the inaugural year of Dzantik’i Héeni Middle School, an ambitious…
1995 | Students of Dzantik'i Héeni | 19 pages
Outer Point Raven’s-eye
Kaalahéenak’u, inside a person’s mouth (Peterson Creek) For Clan Conference in autumn, 2015, I prepared a 7-minute animation exploring the…
2015 | Richard Carstensen | 7-minute slideshow
GeoPDFs Kaalahéenak’u (Outer Point)
High-resolution GeoPDF pair for field navigation at Kaalahéenak’u, inside a person’s mouth (Peterson Creek) on northernwestern Sayéik, spirit helper (Douglas Island).…
2018 | Richard Carstensen | 1 page
Supplement to the CBJ wetlands surveys, 2016
In summer 2014, Koren Bosworth, Cathy Pohl, Andrew Allison and I surveyed wetlands throughout the CBJ. Although we were not…
2016 | Richard Carstensen | 31 page excerpt (of 512p)
Area descriptions for CBJ wetlands surveys, 2014
Supplement to the 2016 Juneau Wetlands Management Plan In summer 2014, Koren Bosworth, Cathy Pohl, Andrew Allison and I surveyed…
2018 | Richard Carstensen | 8 separate pdfs, 2 to 5 MB
Outer Point/Ḵaalahéenak’u trailhead signs
In 2010, on contract with CBJ Parks and Recreation, Discovery designed 3-panel sign arrays for 10 trailheads on (or leading…
Richard Carstensen | 1 page
Outer Point/Ḵaalahéenak’u brochure
Four-fold brochure created for the CBJ Natural History Project describes 14 interpretive stations along the Ḵaalahéenak’u-Outer Point Loop Trail. On…
2013 | Richard Carstensen | 2 pages