Pete Fawcett

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Pete Fawcett (right) helped build the first company owned building at the Icy Straits Salmon Cannery. The man on the left is unidentified.
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Pete Fawcett, Tlingit name Shx'e'ik, T’akdeintaan, Yéil Kúdi Hít (Raven, Kittywake’s Nest House).

From Haa Shuká, Our Ancestors: Tlingit Oral Narratives, edited by Nora Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer

Pete Fawcett was of the Yeilkudei Hit (Raven Nest House) of the T’akdeintaan clan of Hoonah. He was the second husband of Sxeinda.at. His daughter was the noted culture bearer Amy Marvin. He helped build the first company owned building at the Icy Straits Salmon Cannery.

Pete Fawcett was born in 1875 in Tenakee Springs, and passed away in 1945 in Juneau.

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Pete Fawcett