A substantial portion of the Glacier Bay National Park official brochure is devoted to acknowledging that the Connecticut-sized park is the “homeland” for the Huna Tlingit Indians:
The Native Americans enjoyed life in their village within what is today Glacier Bay prior to the eponymous glacier expanding all the way into the ocean:
Due to President Calvin Coolidge’s designation of the bay as a “national monument” in 1925 (Wikipedia), the natives were forever cut off from residing in their Connecticut-sized homeland.
Given that it is a violation of federal law for an Indian to return what the acknowledger says is “home”, is it fair to call this Peak Land Acknowledgement?
Note that if we ever did give Glacier Bay back to the Native Alaskans they would immediately become insanely rich. The National Park Service disdains filthy lucre and therefore imposes a two-ship-per-day limit while charging an absurdly low $8/passenger fee (i.e., about what a cruise passenger might pay for a drink at the onboard Starbucks). Each ship parks itself in front of the headline glacier for only about one hour and, therefore, given the number of hours of daylight in the summer, it would be trivial to increase the number of ships to accommodate nearly all of the 1.7 million passengers who visit Juneau each year. The Indians could hike the price to $60 per passenger, the standard fee for a seat at specialty dining, and thus harvest about $100 million per year for doing almost nothing.
(Currently most of the profit from the land is extracted by Princess, Holland, and Norwegian because these are the major cruise lines that have long-term contracts with the National Park Service. I.e., the U.S. Treasury gets almost nothing and the government cronies get nearly all of the profit that is obtainable from the park. (The itineraries that include Glacier Bay can support higher prices even though the cost to the cruise line is no higher.))
A present-day Glacier Bay village of 2,000+ passengers on Holland America, owned since 1989 by Florida-based Carnival, which was founded by Ted Arison, a Palestinian born in Tel Aviv, Palestine.
I had not realized that Global Warming and Climate Change actually began just after 1750. Greta?
I don’t have time to ask AI, kinda busy liberating oppressed people by floating on a raft and putting salve on bedbugs from jail. We do know that global warming spiked when you bought your obscene mansion. If you would stop flying and heating your pool alone, we could get down to 2 deg. C. above pre-industrial by 2030. Oh and stop using AI.
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/al-gores-climate-change-hypocrisy-is-as-big-as-his-energy-sucking-mansion/
https://shunwaste.com/article/how-much-pollution-does-al-gore-privae-jet-cause
Would it be fair to conclude that the Huna Tlingit tribe were the ancestors of modern-day MAGA tribes because they caused Global Warming by melting their glacier so as to enable commerce by sea in Glacier Bay, and thus they are undeserving of their “homeland?”
> Would it be fair
When did you start thinking about that? Stop blaming other people and change yourself, Boomer. And you isn’t no doctor, of anything.
Remember: Thela hun ginjeet -> Heat in the jungle!
When I applied in 1997, I wonder had I claimed Huna Tlingit ancestry whether I would have been accepted into the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Hopefully the ship did more than give a 1 hour peek at the remanes of a glacier that no-one photographs because they’re all just FL refugees.
That terrain looks truly inhospitable for humans. The prevalent theory is that all “native” North-Americans passed through it, migrating from Russia. Land acknowledgements aside, one has marvel at the idea that 15-20,000 years ago men+women+children walked over that land for thousands of miles, somehow finding food & water and surviving -40 winters, to end up populating America?
I think you may have stumbled upon the solution to the situation in Gaza. If the mostly peaceful Indians here can be satisfied with land acknowledgements, Hamas should also be content with plaques and commencement speakers acknowledging the earlier presence of some of their ancestors in land that they no longer inhabit. Presumably casinos will also be involved, but Trump, way ahead of the game, as usual, seems to have that covered.
Plaques, not bombs!
Mitch, very respectively, if your “idea” came to fruition, what would we do to occupy our days going forward? Please, think about devastation that would bring upon our group.