Last spring, three Dillingham students began pushing to rename a creek that has a slur in its name. The Interior Department has the same goal — but it also has rules for choosing new names, which might not be compatible with what the students proposed.
The federal Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force, unlike the girls, based its suggestions on other geographic locations in the area.
In February, the task force released more than 3,300 alternatives for locations across the country. In Dillingham, the names it suggested were Bradford Point, Snag Point, Grassy Island, Sheep Island and Picnic Point.. Suggested changes for that include Sea Gull Flat, Telephone Point, Svoger Slough, Graveyard Point and Cape Horn.
Elder Dora Andrew-Ihrke worked with the students on the name change project. She taught for decades at the Dillingham school before she retired. She is from Aleknagik — Alaqnaqiq — which she said means “wrong way” in Yup’ik. “For my Yup’ik culture, I would show respect by just calling it Alqaqellriit Kuigat, the Sisters Creek. Alqaqellritt, Alqaq Al’a is the oldest sister, so Alqaqellriit implies there are more than one sister,” she said. “So it doesn’t say how many, but the Sisters Creek in English would be proper, and to me that’s showing respect on how you name places.”
“The council has been very sensitive about first of all, acknowledging private property and private owners and stuff,” Ruby said. “But they’re also pretty sensitive about things that might be offensive to the public. The property owners on the road are going to be pretty key to whether there’s interest in changing the name.”
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