mark 🇮🇪 🇪🇺Jan 28, 2025
As a former #Alaskan who lived there 16 years, I am dismayed that knowledgeable Republicans are not trying to contain the idiotic behavior happening in Washington DC regarding #Denali. Here is a good article with the Alaskan view. I would make one correction, the #Native people have been there for millennia, not centuries. Denali is the mountain’s name. #Alaska #NativeAmerican #NativePeople #Athabascan https://apnews.com/article/trump-alaska-denali-mckinley-name-39c6e735fc56f4046200259cfe9e9934
Many Alaskans continue to use Denali as name for Mount McKinley

President Donald Trump has changed the name of Alaska's Denali back to Mount McKinley. It's a nod to President William McKinley, who was from Ohio and who never set foot in Alaska. Many Alaskans say they'll never stop calling the mountain Denali. That name respects the Indigenous people who've lived in its shadows for thousands of years. Jeff King, a four-time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, lives near the mountain. He says he doesn't know a single person who likes the idea of the new name. But Trump's move is drawing praise in Ohio, where a former congressman says "it was the appropriate thing to do.”

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Charring AuhJan 11, 2025
from the land uit, #Aleut, #Athabascan, and rom 1899 to 1921, Treaties
Charring AuhJan 11, 2025
from the land uit, #Aleut, #Athabascan, and rom 1899 to 1921, Treaties
Alaska Native ArtDec 3, 2023
The Sheldon Jackson Museum in Sitka, Alaska hosts Alaska Native Artist Residencies during the tourist season. This was a fish skin sewing class my wife took. She’s in the yellow tee shirt. #Alaska #museums #Alaskanative #Athabascan
Jan HicksJul 8, 2023
I loved #reading The Smell of Other People's Houses. It's a beautifully crafted #book that presents the transition from childhood to adulthood through the eyes of a group of teens in Fairbanks #Alaska. It looks at #community and belonging and uses sense of smell to build its world. The author sensitively portrays #AlaskanNative life through the #Athabascan and #Inupiat characters.
https://thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2023/07/08/the-smell-of-other-peoples-houses/
#BookReview #BonnieSueHitchcock #TheSmellOfOtherPeoplesHouses #YA #YoungAdult
The Smell of Other People’s Houses

Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock’s first novel is a snapshot of life in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1970. Told by a small group of teenagers, we see the world through their eyes; the smallness of the town, the …

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