0:27
Curtis McQueen
42:25 - 42:53
"The only thing the village ever asked from the corporation is to leave the village land very traditional, very rural. The Tlingit people, when they settled there 1,500 years ago, they never would have imagined a municipality of Anchorage growing up on one side and a Matsu on the other."
“The only thing the village ever asked from the corporation is to leave the village land very traditional, very rural. The Tlingit people, when they settled there 1,500 years ago, they never would have imagined a municipality of Anchorage growing up on one side and a Matsu on the other.”
- Speaker
- Curtis McQueen
- Timestamp
- 42:25 – 42:53
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- June 18, 2026
From the transcript
They only charge $10 a year. When we've stepped up to make land available, they've done that for Eagle River growth. But the village has always supported the corporation. The only thing the village ever asked from the corporation is to leave the village land very traditional, very rural. The Tlingit people, when they settled there 1,500 years ago, they never would have imagined a municipality of Anchorage growing up on one side and a Matsu on the other.
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