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Tourism is big money for many tribes and individual entrepreneurs. But it also has the potential to diminish people’s quality of life. Residents in Juneau, Alaska are considering a limit on the dozens of cruise ships that unload thousands of visitors there every summer. Among other things, critics say the steady stream of outsiders detracts from what they enjoy about living there. Some tribes have closed off tourist attractions altogether. We’ll find out about “overtourism” and ways to avoid it.
GUESTS
Sherry Rupert (Paiute and Washoe), CEO of American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association (AIANTA)
Joe Nelson (Tlingit), chair of Sealaska Corporation and co-chair of the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN)
Cory Mann (citizen of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska), business owner in Juneau, Alaska
Ilihia Gionson (Native Hawaiian), public affairs officer for the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority
Break 1 Music: Traveling Song (song) Judy Trejo (artist) Circle Dance Songs of the Paiute and Shoshone (album)
Break 2 Music: In the River: A Protest Song (song) Raye Zaragoza (artist)
The big bright business commerce fallacy explodes in Juneau, Alaska at the Norwegian CruiseLine Dock — aka: “Huna Totem Corporation Dock”. State of AK’s Native Corps are not Tribes, nor is ANCSA shareholder-rooted business profits eligible for Wall St. competing. How easy tribal member shareholders so census-available to exploitation under lobby ladened industrial claims to Alaska’s U.S. Public Lands.
ANILCA is a congressional “compromise” spawn due to ANCSA’s term “extermination”. Those ones performing on Juneau-based fallacy dock live in the “global visitor” world of fallacy vacation+ as common quislings – puppets for show” to an alien audience, a bright cultural flash in the gold pan of public performance.
Those speakers had no business performing during today’s critical moment when Juneau has the question of limiting cruise ship intrusions on the upcoming public voting ballot.
Good intentioned as those ones may be, they missed the mark honoring the majority resident voice support to limitation – worse, on behalf of Hoonah’s village-based ANC!