David Boxley
15:53 - 16:27
"We gave up potlatching. That is devastating to try to maintain these kinds of stories and things."
“We gave up potlatching. That is devastating to try to maintain these kinds of stories and things.”
- Speaker
- David Boxley
- Timestamp
- 15:53 – 16:27
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Juneau
- Captured at
- August 12, 2026
From the transcript
We gave up potlatching. That is devastating to try to maintain these kinds of stories and things. The one thing that we held on to, and you'll see it on Men of Katlas flag, one kid, one uses, the other sits hand grips waiting, is they at least felt important enough to hold on to which of the phratries they belonged to. That that lineage, even if it was the bare bones of it, was so important that they needed to hold on to that. It's the reason that I think we can start rebuilding now using, thank goodness, what was documented.
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