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[[File:Raventotemsitka.jpg|thumb|left|Detail of a raven head on a totem pole]]
El monument nacional de Sitka va ser proclamat pel president [[William Howard Taft]] en virtut de la [[Llei d'Antiguitats]] el 23 de març de 1910 per preservar el caràcter històric del lloc, la col·lecció de tòtems i la fortalesa, i protegir-los de danys addicionals.<ref name="redbook">{{cite book|title=THE NATIONAL PARKS Index 2009-2011|publisher=NPS|url=https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/nps/nps/part2.htm|accessdate=14 May 2016}}</ref><ref name="taft">{{cite web|title=March 23, 1910: A Proclamation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kthTAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA645&lpg=PA645&dq=1910+Presidential+proclamation+setting+aside+Indian+River+Park+as+a+national+monument&source=bl&ots=KaXiAbSYZZ&sig=ACj5vAqTTf5-n1rsBhtjO_0WZl8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMyJeHsNnMAhVD62MKHfqSCfAQ6AEILDAD#v=onepage&q=1910%20Presidential%20proclamation%20setting%20aside%20Indian%20River%20Park%20as%20a%20national%20monument&f=false|publisher=US GPO|page=644-645|accessdate=14 May 2016}}</ref> En crear el [[Servei de Parcs Nacionals]] el 1916, el monument va caure sota la cura de la nova agència però sense finançament dedicat fins a 1921.<ref name=history/> Molts dels
The 112-[[acre]] (45-[[hectare]]) park was placed under the control of the U.S. Army in 1942 and briefly occupied for defensive purposes, during which a series of military construction projects resulted in the removal of massive amounts of gravel from the park's river, shoreline and estuary.<ref name=redbook/><ref name=history/> Environmental impacts from the gravel removal were to be a major resource issue for decades after.<ref name=history/> Responsibility for the park was formally returned to the [[United States Department of the Interior|Department of the Interior]] in 1947.<ref name=history/> In 1965, a new visitor center (the park's first true visitor facility, which provides space for exhibits and demonstrations of Alaska Native arts and crafts) was opened.<ref name=history/> The park was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1966.<ref name="NRHP">{{cite web|title=National Register of Historic Places, Alaska, Sitka County (sic)|url=http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ak/sitka/state.html|publisher=NRHP|accessdate=14 May 2016}}</ref>
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