Journaling:
Eklutna is 24 miles northeast of Anchorage. It is the last of eight villages that existed before the construction of the Alaska Railroad in 1915. It was settled approximately 800 years ago and is the oldest inhabited location in the Anchorage area. In the 1840s Russian Orthodox missionaries arrived. The brightly colored spirit houses resulted in the merging of Orthodox Christianity and the practices of the native cultures. The spirit houses are in the Eklutna Cemetery which has been in use since 1650.
I have been back to some of them. I went back to Alaska in the mid-1990s. It was in January so I didn't get to see a lot of the places we went to during the summer months.
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