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Project seeks to gather Alaska environmental knowledge embedded in Indigenous languages

Project seeks to gather Alaska environmental knowledge embedded in Indigenous languages

Project seeks to gather Alaska environmental knowledge embedded in Indigenous languages

Experts want to compile a glossary of Alaska Native words and phrases holding information that can help track climate change and other conditions.

In 1915, Anchorage residents voted on an official name for the new city. The name 'Anchorage' came in 3rd place.

on local history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of this story. William Watson Woolen’s posthumously published Alaska history and travelogue, “The Inside Passage to Alaska,” includes his 1915 journey into Upper Cook Inlet. He traveled north, past Point Possession, past Fire Island and past Point MacKenzie before anchoring near the mouth of Woodrow Creek on the eastern side of Knik Arm. A group of government engineers camped out near the beach greeted his arrival. Woolen wrote, “Since then the town of Woodrow with a large population has come into existence, with a post office, general stores, blacksmith and machine shops. It is a port of call for all steamships making Cook Inlet, and has telephone and telegraph communications with Seward.”