“It feels good because we worked on it for so long, and it finally got changed and we just feel relieved,” said Dillingham elementary student Alora Wassily, after local efforts to change a local creek's offensive name were overtaken by federal officials.
November 28, 2022
“It feels good because we worked on it for so long, and it finally got changed and we just feel relieved,” she said. “We felt accomplished.” “We were all really nervous our first time. And after a while we got used to it, and we just got normal about it,” Alora said. “Our process went from slow and steady to very, very rapid,” Chaney said. “It shifted from us educating and garnering local support for change to a government-to-government relationship, following a tribal process and doing tribal consultation between our local Curyung Tribe and the federal government.”
Originally from Togiak, she now lives in Anchorage and oversees the land department’s cultural heritage efforts, including the Bristol Bay Native Place Names project. She said it’s one way the corporation celebrates and preserves that heritage.
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