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Martin Stepetin Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The bill that formally protects the cemetery at Funter Bay on Admiralty Island was sponsored by Juneau Representative Sara Hannan but she gives the credit to Martin Stepetin. Unangan people from the Pribilof Islands were placed in internment camps in Southeast Alaska, including at Funter Bay, during World War II including both sets of Martin s grandparents. Many died and were buried there. Stepetin thanked Governor Dunleavy for signing the bill last week and Representative Hannan for her hard work through the legislative process. It s a piece of human history because I like to say that we as a people, as a nation, as a state, we are still capable of these atrocities and this can happen again and is happening again at different levels throughout the country, throughout other countries, Stepetin said and added, That is why we have to remember this so that we don t ever al ....
12:15 Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy signed a bill into law protecting an Unangax̂ cemetery in Funter Bay last week; public comment for the Army Corps of Engineers ends today for the $54 million Captain s Bay Road project; and a Massachusetts company is sending genetically modified salmon to dinner tables in the U.S. for the first time. Tags: ....
The weather has been amazing in Anchorage this week! I hope everyone is out enjoying it. It s mid-June and a budget has still not been passed, but it looks like the conference committee should finish today. A lot of legislators ....
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) Gov. Mike Dunleavy has signed legislation aimed at protecting the graves of Unangax people sent to internment camps in southeast Alaska during World War II. “We want their descendants to know it’s not been forgotten,” Dunleavy said at Tuesday’s bill signing. The measure expands the boundaries of Funter Bay State Marine […] ....