#alaska shit

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nothing makes you realize the colonial history of Alaska more than people losing their minds over the demolition of a building a mere 75 years old because of its “historical significance”

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they solved the seal oil botulism issue with science!!!

Cultural ‘big deal’: Seal oil makes the menu at Kotzebue elder-care home

Alaska’s Department of Environmental Conservation last month approved its use in elder homes, believed to be a first for seal oil in the U.S

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am I being Too Woke or is this an extraordinarily weird way to phrase that. like. thank you for being colonized <3

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COVID has made it to Utqiaġvik, the most Northern city in the United States, above the Arctic Circle. I can’t tell you how badly the rural indigenous people of Alaska don’t need a virus which primarily targets elders and requires the kind of intensive hospitalization for which people have to be airlifted to Fairbanks or Anchorage. heartsick, heartsick, heartsick.

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Meet an Alaska graduating class of one

As a Kodiak Island teen prepares to leave her familiar village, her single mom encourages independence.

Native kids are the coolest!

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Alaska’s been in financial crisis for years and the new governor’s budget cuts are so draconian the mayor of my hometown just declared a “civic emergency” so that’s...going great

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urban white people commenting on rural native issues like subsistence hunting  always come up with the stupidest takes imaginable

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my hometown is having a mumps outbreak, and my mom is in charge of convincing a building full of government employees that the recommended  vaccines do not, in fact, cause autism or contain tracking devices