![]() ![]() Even my own people,” Bourdukofsky said.Įven though the bill is now law, Bourdukofsky thinks it will require continual education for people to understand the effects of the World War II internment on the Unangax̂ people to this day. “Probably a lot of people, even my own fellow Unangax̂, much in the way that many still don’t understand what happened in World War II, that the bill is probably even a little foreign to them and what it means because people are still learning about it. To Tara Bourdukofsky, director of Aleut Corporation, the bill is educational for everyone. Tara Bourdukofsky looks at the current exhibit on display at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum about the Unangax̂ internment in Southeast Alaska during World War II. So it’s sad but it’s healing at the same time,” Bergo said. “It’s sad because it took, the last time I guess the Elders that came down - there was four, five of them - they’re no longer with us. They were relocated to two internment camps there from the. Paul, flew down to Juneau for the signing event.įor Constance Bergo, vice president of TDX Corporation, the feeling of the bill being signed was indescribable, in a good way. The Unangax cemetery holds more than 30 graves of people who died at Funter Bay during World War II. In addition to lawmakers and other people already in Juneau, leaders from the Aleut Corporation and TDX Corporation, the village corporation of St. With the cemetery part of a state park, that land cannot be sold or developed, ensuring that the cemetery is protected. The bill signed Tuesday adds the cemetery to the Funter Bay Marine Park. government forced Unangax̂ people to live in an internment camp in Funter Bay on Admiralty Island 30-40 people died and are buried in a cemetery there. (Photo by Lyndsey Brollini/KTOO)ĭuring World War II, the U.S. The graphic is part of an exhibit at the museum – Echoes of War: Unangax̂ Internment During WWII – which runs through October 18, 2021. It protects it from happening, you know?” A graphic in the Juneau-Douglas City Museum showing the forced internment of Unangax̂ people from the Pribilof Islands to Southeast Alaska. “We’ve seen, so many times, all throughout our country, where our sacred grounds have been desecrated and disrespected and not cared for,” Stepetin said. Martin Stepetin has been advocating to protect the Funter Bay cemetery since 2014. Mike Dunleavy signed a bill into law protecting the Unangax̂ cemetery in Funter Bay on Tuesday at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum. (Photo by Lyndsey Brollini/KTOO)Īlaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed the bill into law on June 8 at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum. KTOO-FM reported Tuesday that the bill would increase the land within Funter Bay State Marine Park near Juneau to include a cemetery holding the graves of 30 to 40 Aleut people who died there. Martin Stepetin stands with his family holding House Bill 10. ![]()
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