The Anchorage Museum has instituted a targeted, race-based admission policy which offers free access to the museum for those who claim to be of Alaska Native descent.
“We prioritize strengthening relationships with Indigenous communities, expanding on representation of history guided by Indigenous voices and leadership, and continuing efforts to evolve museum practices,” the museum’s website explains. “Free general admission for Alaska Native visitors is an active choice to honor these commitments.
In justifying its decision to treat patrons differently based on their race or ethnicity, the museum website states that a “significant portion” of its collection is comprised of Alaska Native cultural artifacts.
Showing preference to those claiming to have Alaska Native ancestry is “one way the museum honors, supports, and respects the Indigenous cultures of Alaska, in addition to providing access to the collection, supporting sovereignty projects and through land acknowledgements, while also co-creating and presenting events and exhibitions with Indigenous artists and stakeholders,” the website adds.
In determining whether a patron is eligible for the race-based discount, the museum said it will simply take the person’s word if they claim to be Alaska Native.
“Will I be asked to prove/verify that I am Alaska Native/Indigenous to Alaska to get free general admission?” the website notes. “No. Alaska Native visitors may self-declare at the ticketing desk and museum staff will issue the appropriate admission ticket. You will not be asked to provide any form of identification or tribal enrollment information.”
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Free admission, however, does not extend to those who identify as descending from a non-Alaska Native tribe.
A school or community group, which includes both Alaska Natives and non-Natives, will need to contact the museum to work out the details, the website states, while emphasizing that free passes will not be extended to Alaska residents who are “born and raised in Alaska but not of Alaska Native descent.”
Supported by the Municipality of Anchorage, the Anchorage Museum Foundation, and private, corporate and foundation funds, the museum has increasingly become a mouthpiece for climate change alarmism, critical race theory, diversity, equity and inclusion and LGBTQ activism.
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This article sounds pertty racist and prejudice to me!
Since the article consists of editorial-free fact based quotes from the museum itself, I’m guessing you agree the new policy is racist?
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Wow! I wish that the Alaskan Natives would demand a stop to all this racists b.s. that the lefty extremists are drumming up and instituting. Stuff like this is going to make the racism front and center. Ah, but this will work in favor the globalist effort of distracting us while they flood our state with illegal immigrants of whom we will have to pay for everything they need and want.
How dare a museum try to encourage equity and inclusion, the horror. Allowing a group of people free access to ancestral and cultural objects of theirs that were in large part stolen and taken from them while they were being forcefully sent to Christian boarding schools which beat their language and culture out of them, it’s simply unimaginable that the Museam would make this decision.
Well said John!
I don’t think you will find many folks willing to apologize for pulling the Natives out of the stone age, and I’m pretty sure the Natives aren’t going to give up all the things civilization brought them. It was done poorly, but the result is the same. Giving freebies to Natives on the backs of everyone else has been the modus operandi of race hustlers everywhere–we already pay for their healthcare, their welfare, and pretty much everything else. ANILCA was supposed to level the field. I guess making all that sweet government money hasn’t changed a thing.
Out of the Stone Age, oh please Europeans were still drilling holes in peoples heads, burning people at the stake, and were engaging in some of the most barbaric practices known to man when they forcibly enslaved, raped and murdered hundreds of thousands indigenous people, what a truly civil aided and loving Christian civilisation . As we all know there’s no hate like Christian love.
Stone Age you say. I’m sure the engineering corp would be more then happy to see your comments about natives. Should just throw the Corthell family in there too, I’m sure they’d love to hear about how backwards you think natives are
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The leftist dolts have to dwell on the past of 100 years ago to make their argument.
While ignoring the real life consequences of their biggoted and racist ideaology.
Being a segregationist, is racism, not incusion.
We fought the evil religious and goverment entities in this country to allow systemic equality…only now to have to fight because ignorant Leftist want to bring it all back.
Lucy, I guess the truth hurts. The Natives did not have any technology beyond the Stone Age until they met Western Civilization. If you were to go to the Museum, you would see that; the Museum has plenty of exhibits demonstrating that. There is nothing “racist” about history, just people who call any facts they don’t like “racist.”
Ah, LOL, so proud to comment under a false name. Nobody said the Natives are anywhere behind anybody else now, but history is history, whether you like it or not. Oddly enough, all of the Corthells know the truth as well. Why are you so obtuse and full of strawmen? Don’t have a cogent comment?
Those “Christian” schools that you point out are the same ones that are in on the genocide. This action by the museum (owned and funded by a globalist supporter) and your comments are no better than the “movement” to push blacks out in front and center. Well, the blacks are waking up to what is going on and they want off of the globalist plantation. I hope we can wake up the Alaskan Natives, so that they can refuse the globalist plantation also.
Conservative brain rot really is something else. Someone should call the mental asylum, they clearly miss you and it’s obvious you can’t discern reality from utter nonsense.
Okay Lucy.
one more way to express white guilt. wonder how the Indigenous population would look under Russian rule?
By all accounts they’d of been much better, Russians never forcibly sent thousands of their indigenous populations to Christian boarding schools throughout the country that ended up with piles of dead kids buried out back.
No, they just sent them to gulags and tortured them to death if they spoke up for their rights. Just that. And by the way, the dead kid meme is a lie. The government dug up the supposed graves and found…. nothing. Get out of your circle once in a while and see if you can find the truth.
Time for dunleavy to increase the funding to advance more stupid activities!
By all accounts they’d of been much better, Russians never forcibly sent thousands of their indigenous populations to Christian boarding schools throughout the country that ended up with piles of dead kids buried out back.
Oh, the Communist Russians would have treated the AK natives better? hahahahaha
They should not have been seperated, but there are not thousands of dead alaskan native kids buried behind churches… pure hyperbole and plain stupid.
However, there are MILLIONS of multi-ethnic people murdered and buried in Communist Russia.
Here, they also should not be treated like catlle and given everything free or greatly reduced to keep them quiet and submissive.
Welfare and free everything only destroys cultures, ambition, and self-determination.
Today, is not 100 years ago… EVERY AK native has MORE opportunity and access to MORE resources than “whites”. Most don’t take it because Leftist “charity” has broken down the family structure, juat like the black communities.
Leftists destroy the very fabric of a sane and healthy society… mainly because they have ignorant zealots like you.
You clearly are driven by faux moral outrage based of emotional sophmoric self-ignorance of the realites of human nature and government.
My guess is you are not a day over 23 and never have done anything meaninful in your life.
I now identify as an Alaskan Native handicapped black lesbian trans non-binary eagle.
where is my free shi*?
My wife, who is a full-blood Yupik Eskimo, told me the tales of the great “Bow and Arrow Wars” in which one Yupik Eskimo side tried to kill the other and vice versa. This happened over the course of centuries and was prosecuted with great brutality. She recounted how after the attacking warriors had killed every male but one in a village, they would leave him alive but would cut off the skin from the soles of his feet. The women and girls they might take back with them as slaves. And as for slaves, you do know the history of the Tlingit and slavery, right? Chiefs rolling canoes over slaves to show their wealth. Throw one in a hole before putting up a totem pole. John Muir, who loved to travel with Tlingits, wrote about running into slaves being held by Tlingits way into the 1880s. In fact he tells the story of one chief in Glacier Bay who sacrificed a slave and his wife to try to appease an encroaching glacier. Then we have Inupiat against Athabaskan, Athabaskan against Alutiiq (Sugpiaq Eskimo)… it was a big happy, peaceful family. Anthropologists and archaeologists have determined that all the Cook Inlet area was once Eskimo country even into recent history. I’m pretty sure the Eskimos didn’t give it up peacefully. Oh, and about the human sacrifice of the Anasazi, Aztec, Inca, Comanche… oh my. And don’t forget about how the Chippewa and Cree pushed the Sioux out of the Great Lakes region and in turn the Sioux pushed in on the Crow and Pawnee lands.
My point is not to make Native peoples look bad, it is that people of all races- Native, European, Asian- have been cruel to each other and taken each others’ land. We are supposed to have moved beyond bigotry. Favoring one person over another because of the color of their skin can never be right even if it is meant to atone for past misdeeds.
Anchorage was already given to the natives. Proof is in the pudding.
The locals had already been granted anchorage. The proof is in the eating space bar clicker
Fantastic video talking about how race is not where the line is drawn: it is God’s side and the other side. All lies will be exposed.
‘The Angels- No Exit’
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