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Alaska sets aside a day each year to honor William Henry Seward, Secretary of State under President Abraham Lincoln. Among other things he’s known for negotiating the U.S. Government’s purchase of Alaska in 1867, ushering in subsequent American colonialism in the 49th state, including the Klondike Gold Rush and other resource exploitation that largely ignored the original inhabitants.
GUESTS
Benjamin Jacuk (Dena’ina Athabascan and Sugpiaq), researcher at the Alaska Native Heritage Center
Jackson Polys (Lingít), multidisciplinary artist and carver
Curt Chamberlain (Native Village of Aniak), assistant general counsel for the Calista Corporation
Lee Farrow, distinguished research professor and distinguished teaching professor, and chair, in the Department of History and World Languages at Auburn University at Montgomery
Break 1 Music: Manifest Death (song) M.I.S. [Merciless Indian Savages] (artist) Kill the Man, Save the Indian (album)
Break 2 Music: Back Home (song) Pepper (artist) In with the Old (album)
