David Boxley
27:15 - 28:10
"Dudson Bay Company comes, William Duncan arrives, and we move one more time from British Columbia. Now that there's a difference— there was never a difference before, people didn't know what Alaska was up until they told us there's a border here now"
“Dudson Bay Company comes, William Duncan arrives, and we move one more time from British Columbia. Now that there's a difference— there was never a difference before, people didn't know what Alaska was up until they told us there's a border here now”
- Speaker
- David Boxley
- Timestamp
- 27:15 – 28:10
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Juneau
- Captured at
- August 12, 2026
From the transcript
There was a lot more getting along, we think, than we talk about. And then we settled, we settled in amongst the Tsimshian. Dudson Bay Company comes, William Duncan arrives, and we move one more time from British Columbia. Now that there's a difference— there was never a difference before, people didn't know what Alaska was up until they told us there's a border here now— um, then one more time we migrated. And it gets less validity, it seems, because it happened in this turmoil, because it happened after, you know, federal governments were formed, because we were living in a time where we were having to put things away.
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