Assemblywoman Meg Zaletel is offering an ordinance during Tuesday’s Anchorage Assembly meeting that will require the display of the “land acknowledgement” on the wall of the Assembly Chambers.
Already, the Assembly has an ordinance that requires the oral recitation of a “land acknowledgement” statement that says that the non-Natives who live and work in Alaska are colonizers and that there needs to be decolonization in Alaska, and some equity, too. Now that statement will be posted on the wall, too.
The proposed change to the municipal code can be read here.
In addition, the proposed ordinance would require the American flag and the municipal flag to be posted in the Chambers. It is already done by tradition, but not required by law.
Assemblywoman Meg Zaletel has for years refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of Anchorage Assembly meetings. She is one of the radical members who insisted on the land acknowledgement in 2020, when it started becoming a fixture in the Assembly meetings.
The following is the required acknowledgement that is now recited and would be required to be posted on the wall, presumably in the English language, since the Dena’ina Athabaskan’s had no written language:
“A land acknowledgement is a formal statement recognizing the Indigenous people of a place. It is a public gesture of appreciation for the past and present Indigenous stewardship of the lands that we now occupy. It is an actionable statement that marks our collective movement towards decolonization and equity.
“The Anchorage Assembly would like to acknowledge that we gather today on the traditional lands of the Dena’ina Athabascans. For thousands of years the Dena’ina have been and continue to be the stewards of this land. It is with gratefulness and respect that we recognize the contributions, innovations, and contemporary perspectives of the upper Cook Inlet Dena’ina.”
President Donald Trump has said that no more federal funds may be spent on diversity, equity, and inclusion programming. The land acknowledgement recited by the Assembly is an equity statement, at the very least.
Zaletel, representing midtown Anchorage, is not running for reelection in the April 1 municipal election.
Anchorage Assembly will meet on Tuesday, March 18 in the ground floor auditorium of the Loussac Library on 36th Avenue and Denali Street. The meetings begin at 5:30 pm and this item is later on the agenda, which can be seen here.
What a bunch of money wasting loons! No one ‘owns’ the land, we are just temporary residents on it. Coincidentally, a group of people were settled here when other Americans arrived, but those people who occupied it at that time likely displaced others, perhaps violently, who had resided there before. What about acknowledging the Russians? They occupied it too. Should we honor them and offer reparations?
Who owned the Black Hills? Before Custer, the Lakota Sioux took it from the Cheyenne, who took it from the Arapaho, who took it from the Crow, who took it from the Kiowa, who took it from the Arikara. And that is what we know just for the last 500 years. We are all transients. We are but dust, and to dust we shall all return, somewhere.
A sitting US Senator recently said … “You can only push folks so far.”
That very true statement applies here in Anchorage too!
These crazed lunatics are coming out of the woodwork like cockroaches! All’s I can say is they are showing their true colors! Vote for common sense, morals and values. They are telling you so PAY ATTENTION!!
Real people in Anchorage might vote that way, but counted ballots do not.
I think we need to let this chapter of wokeism play out. The logical conclusion is that these guilt ridden white folks will eventually demand that the ‘native’ Dena’ina Athabaskan post and recite land acknowledgment for the people that came before them.
Those left wing assembly members should be the first to sign over there ( borrowed) land to the natives. FYI Anchorage assembly NO ONE gave me my property, I worked my ass off for it.
It’s election season in Anchorage. No matter what don’t vote for an incumbent. Keep voting for a different candidate until they understand that you aren’t happy with them. Sooner or later they will figure it out.
And yet, these same idiots are for open borders…
ironic isn’t it?
Such a difference in views between Anchorage and the Mat-Su
When I brought forth an ordnance to display Historical Documents in our lobby of our Borough Building we had unanimous support to put them in. We decided to pay for it by donations. I copied and pasted from the Borough website. We designed it as a traveling display so we could loan it out to the schools and libraries.
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The Mat-Su Borough Assembly passed a resolution [RS 24-105] on October 1st for a display of historic documents in the Dorthy Swanda Jones Building. This initial legislation was the impetus to expand the concept to become a traveling display named Law, Liberty and Legacy: A Historical Journey. Community donations will support the creation of a cohesive exhibit of eight historic document designs with lighting. The eight documents that will be included in the traveling display in chronological order are:
The Code of Hammurabi
The Ten Commandments
The Magna Carta
The Mayflower Compact
The United States’ Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States
The Bill of Rights
The Constitution of the
Also the Pledge of Allegiance
The flow of people and business out of Anchorage will continue until the resulting pain on the residents becomes unbearable. Perhaps then, they will stop voting for these not very bright lunatics for the Assembly. So far, it has been a very costly lesson.
I like it. Acknowledge Anchorage used to belong to hardworking Alaskans of every color until uninvited colonial ladies of the evening from California and Seattle stole it.
Folks, if you really want to get to the head of the snake sign up for emails from the Liberal Communist group that calls themselves Indivisible. Their actions and words will shock you. There are 3 of these cells in Anchorage and they have a website for Anchorage. “To know your enemy is to destroy your enemy”.
No clown show is complete without clowns. People do not tolerate foolish and unfunny clowns for long.
Fine, as long as the Dena’ina tribe acknowledges that they stole the land from the previous tribe.
Technically, America took this land from the Russians, not native Alaskans. Russians took the land from the Dena’ina. And Dena’ina took it from someone else.
Its always been about the lefts agenda with this group of fools. I for the life of me cant understand why Anchorage has not tarred and feathered these people. They will bankrupt the city if allowed to do so. They will beg borrow and steal to get their way for no other reason other then to satisfy their God complex and the communist agenda/
The assembly does not have enough money for the schools, the police, firefighters, snow removal. But, they have money for this?
How about focusing on issues that are destroying Anchorage. Solve the homeless mess the assembly and mayor have created and continue to feed should be on top of the list.
Guess you missed the information boat where it was revealed that good ol’Meg has a non-profit that, since 2019 has taken in 2.5 million of taxpayer money for fighting the homeless issues. It’s also reported that she’s taken a 100K dollar a year salary out of that and the number of homeless has increased by about 1,000 folks since 2019. Yeah, they’re “fighting” the homeless issue all right.
Progressivist jerking off, as usual. Problem is, of course, that the rest of us have to deal with it also. Zalatel and more than a few others need to be kicked out of office.
I call malarkey. We bought Ak from Russia. Let the natives take it up with Putin.
Where is the list of contributions from the few hundred people of Eklutna, Tyonek, Beluga (others?)? What innovations? Real questions…
Next time they’re chanting their little mantra,either turn yourback, or take a knee, if they can do it for the anthem, turnabout is fair, right??
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