Niko Sanguinetti of the Juneau-Douglas City Museum said the bill is part of a larger Funter Bay project that includes a museum exhibit and interpretive panels to be placed at the cemetery.īringing the narrative into the present was important to the elders who worked on the panels, Sanguinetti said. government through neglect,” Hannan said. “They came to understand the historical significance and importance of honouring those who were forcibly taken from their homes and died in custody of the U.S. Sara Hannan, the bill’s sponsor, said the meetings had an impact on legislators, including Senate leadership members and committee chairs. (James Brooks/Anchorage Daily News via AP, Pool)ĭemocratic state Rep. 27, 2021, at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau, Alaska. The Alaska House of Representatives is seen before a brief floor session on Wednesday, Jan. “This land will be protected, and we don’t have to worry about them.”Įdelen travelled to Juneau during the previous legislative session with a delegation of Pribilof elders and found that many lawmakers were receptive, but the coronavirus pandemic cut the session short before the bill could pass. “What we wanted was to know that they were going to be protected, they’re going to be safe,” Edelen said. Serafima Edelen, who has served as a liaison between Pribilof elders and people in the Southeast working to preserve the internment history, said the bill would give descendants reassurance that their loved ones will not be disturbed. About 10 per cent of them died, mostly young children and older people, before they were allowed to return home in 1944. They were left to fend for themselves without clean water or medicine, living in tents and the remains of an old mine and cannery. government forcibly moved Indigenous residents of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea about 2,092 kilometres to the Southeast Alaska area in 1942. The measure would prevent the land from being sold or developed. KTOO-FM reported Tuesday that the bill would increase the land within Funter Bay State Marine Park near Juneau to include a cemetery holding the graves of 30 to 40 Aleut people who died there during the Second World War. (Becky Bohrer/The Associated Press) An Alaska legislative bill would protect the graves of Native Alaskans forcibly displaced from the Aleutian Islands by adding land to a state park. A state legislative bill would increase the land within Funter Bay State Marine Park near Juneau to include a cemetery holding the graves of 30 to 40 Aleut people who died there during the Second World War. FILE- In this Jfile photo, a cruise ship sits docked near downtown Juneau, Alaska.
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