Albert Kookesh, a former state senator from Angoon, was released Friday from Providence Hospital after suffering from a heart attack.
Kookesh was hospitalized last month after he underwent surgery to remove blockage.
His family says he plans on heading to Juneau for a couple of days and then home to Angoon to see his family.
He will still have to go through a cardiac rehab program.
On Thursday, Kookesh spoke with KTUU Channel 2 News and said he takes a baby aspirin every day, and has never smoked or drank in his life.
“I always wonder what would have happened if I drank alcohol or if I smoked tobacco or if I used illegal drugs, [then] how much harder it would have been, Kookesh said. “I guess a message from me to the rest of the Native community and maybe even to the non-Native community, man how do you survive if you drink alcohol or if you smoke tobacco?”
He currently serves as the chairman of the Sealaska Corp. board of directors.
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Fmr. Angoon Sen. Albert Kookesh Released from Hospital
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