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35:12 - 36:03
“right now we're close to about 35,000 of our Pacific Islander all over Alaska, and most of them, 75% or 80%, are here in Anchorage.”
- Speaker
- Unidentified speaker
- Timestamp
- 35:12 – 36:03
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- June 9, 2026
From the transcript
And so a lot of us from Polynesia here in Anchorage are Samoa and American Samoa, and I think the highest population of our Polynesian people here in Anchorage are our Samoan community, and there's so many of them. Back in 1985, when I moved up here, there's only 12 families here in Alaska, and we only get together on Sunday at church in a trailer. But after 5 years moving here and live here, there was families that move up like in groups of 10, you know, so every year it like doubles our number. And so right now we're close to about 35,000 of our Pacific Islander all over Alaska, and most of them, 75% or 80%, are here in Anchorage.
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