David Boxley
0:56 - 1:50
"We are defined by William Duncan and being colonized and moved to Alaska. And that's all most anybody knows, including our own people. About being who we are. And I— the more I've learned, the more that kind of infuriates me."
“We are defined by William Duncan and being colonized and moved to Alaska. And that's all most anybody knows, including our own people. About being who we are. And I— the more I've learned, the more that kind of infuriates me.”
- Speaker
- David Boxley
- Timestamp
- 0:56 – 1:50
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Juneau
- Captured at
- August 12, 2026
From the transcript
So I feel like I need to give you all a little bit of context before I actually get to the stories, um, and which goes to what Tom, in this very kind introduction, said about, you know, my efforts to try to reframe our history because we have been because of our colonizers and the amount of books that have been written about them at the Katla, along with government schooling and generations of our people being taken further and further away from that Tsimshian knowledge and identity. We are defined by William Duncan and being colonized and moved to Alaska. And that's all most anybody knows, including our own people. About being who we are. And I— the more I've learned, the more that kind of infuriates me.
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