“Today is a small victory, but a beautiful victory,” the Anchorage Park Foundation's Beth Nordland said last week, hailing a new sign adding Dena'ina context to the downtown statue of Captain James Cook.
Aaron Leggett, Chief, Native Village of Eklutna, and Beth Nordland, Exec. Dir. Anchorage Parks Foundation, speaking at the unveiling of a Dena’ina place names sign at the Capt. Cook monument at Resolution Park, Anchorage, AK March 22, 2023
The new sign is due in part to the Black Lives Matter movement. In 2020, activists pushed for the removal of symbols of the slave trade, colonization and other injustices. Similar calls were made in Anchorage to have the Cook monument taken down.
The new sign reads, in part, “Before Captain Cook sailed into the inlet, the Dena’ina Indigenous inhabitants named all the features of the land you see in front of you. These names and stories reveal relationships with lands, waters, animals, and plants of the environment. They also convey oral traditions.”
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