Even among Navy SEALs, Atkinson’s accomplishments stand out: He was one of the Navy’s first 60 SEALs, and a “plank holder” for SEAL Team 1.

Solomon Atkinson’s casket in 2019, commemorating both his Tsimshian heritage as an Alaska Native and his 22-year career as a Navy SEAL and plankholder for SEAL Team 1. (Laddie Shaw/courtesy photo).

Future Navajo-class Towing, Salvage and Rescue ship will bear the name USNS Solomon Atkinson (T-ATS-12), in honor of the Alaskan native and Navy SEAL, the Navy announced Monday. Secretary of the ...

WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — The U.S. Navy is naming a ship after decorated Alaska Native veteran Solomon Atkinson of Metlakatla. Atkinson, who died in 2019, was one of the first Navy SEALs.

In Alaska Native Resilience, Holly Miowak Guise draws on oral histories and archival research to look at how Alaska Natives ...

SEALS IN ALASKA.; Statements of Natives of Alaska and the Atentian Islands Before a Committee of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. Share full article. March 27, 1869.

(THE CONVERSATION) Five hundred years ago, in a mountain-rimmed ocean fjord in southeast Alaska, Tlingit hunters armed with bone-tipped harpoons eased their canoes through chunks of floating ice ...