Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Benjamin Young
“My name is Benjamin Young. My Haida name is Kwéyáng, and I'm Yak'wlanas.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Yaadaas Clan Crest with Benjamin K’uyáang Young | Sealaska Heriatge · Aug 13, 2026
Benjamin Young
“he then made plans to have a large Gyaasla in Heidelberg, which took place in 2018.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Yaadaas Clan Crest with Benjamin K’uyáang Young | Sealaska Heriatge · Aug 13, 2026
Benjamin Young
“It was Kasaan. They call it Old Kasaan now, but it was back at that time that people first moved to Kasaan.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Yaadaas Clan Crest with Benjamin K’uyáang Young | Sealaska Heriatge · Aug 13, 2026
Benjamin Young
“They got up towards the COVID they arrived at a creek. Really, they were just astonished. There were a lot of fish in the creek. It was so full with dog salmon.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Yaadaas Clan Crest with Benjamin K’uyáang Young | Sealaska Heriatge · Aug 13, 2026
Benjamin Young
“The people were the Yaadas Haida clan. My people are Yaadas.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Yaadaas Clan Crest with Benjamin K’uyáang Young | Sealaska Heriatge · Aug 13, 2026
Benjamin Young
“The raven saved them at the place where it was first called Staatschuni.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Yaadaas Clan Crest with Benjamin K’uyáang Young | Sealaska Heriatge · Aug 13, 2026
Benjamin Young
“it connects us with the land, it connects us with the people, it connects my clan with a lot of shared history... it tells me of the struggle. It tells me of the sacrifice”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Yaadaas Clan Crest with Benjamin K’uyáang Young | Sealaska Heriatge · Aug 13, 2026
Ginu Nidolny
“major flood stage and the peak crest is expected to be tonight, so at darkness. That challenges our ability to, to see, to see risks.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Ginu Nidolny
“The best thing this community and the citizens can do to maintain their safety is to evacuate as the city has recommended. Again, that's an evacuation request by 3— no later than 3 PM today.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Ken Murphy
“Slow is fast. Slow down. Take your time. If you're evacuating, thank you.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Nicole Barron
“We issued the flood warning yesterday afternoon for an expected crest tomorrow morning between 16.1 and 16.6 feet. Rough timeline of when that crest would happen is Thursday morning between 5:00 AM and 9:00 AM.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Brian O'Shaughnessy
“We're tremendously confident in the HESCO barriers. We're tremendously confident in the pumps that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has provided. None of this is worth betting your life. Please evacuate.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Brian O'Shaughnessy
“We're talking about tens of thousands of cubic feet of water per second.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Nicole Barron
“In the event, unlikely event, of a Hesco barrier breach during that major flood stage, our office would coordinate with the Unified Command and issue a flash flood warning. If you did get a flash flood warning, all of your phones would go off for that if you were in the evacuation area, and we would ask that you shelter in place”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Brian O'Shaughnessy
“we anticipate there's an average of around 2.5 folks per dwelling. We have around 2,000 residences in the area, so that would come out to around 5,000 folks.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Brian O'Shaughnessy
“We're asking folks to finish their evacuation preparations and procedures by 3:00 PM this afternoon as, as they move through this period. Capital Transit will be running until 5:00 PM this afternoon to assist with anyone who's utilizing Capital Transit in their evacuation plan.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Brian O'Shaughnessy
“in the event of a HESCO failure, folks would only have minutes before the area could be inundated. This could potentially be a truly massive amount of water coming through... folks would not have time to evacuate. That flash flood warning product would contain the instructions of shelter in place.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Loren Joseph
“We have trailer supplies on site for 50. The gym probably maxes out around 75 people. We could get a little bit more if needed.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Nicole Barron
“Looking ahead, we expect major flood stage later overnight after midnight. And that will last for approximately an 8-hour period. Major flood stage is 14 feet on the lake gauge.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Brian O'Shaughnessy
“We do not have active tracking of who's evacuated or who hasn't evacuated. And again, this is one of the primary reasons that we're asking folks to self-evacuate before the event.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Loren Joseph
“We established a shelter at Floyd Grind Gym last night. We had a family of 6 overnight.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Travis Eckhoff
“we will close the back loop bridge at 8:30 PM tonight, and we will be closing the pedestrian paths on the Brotherhood Bridge around 5:15, or when the lake gauge hits 10 feet.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
David Boxley
“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.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Laxgyibuu Clan Crest with David R. Boxley | Sealaska Heritage · Aug 12, 2026
David Boxley
“My people are at the beginning of reclaiming this, and it's going to be the same for the other clans. It's a relearning for us, but I still find it really important to say it's not made up.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Laxgyibuu Clan Crest with David R. Boxley | Sealaska Heritage · Aug 12, 2026
David Boxley
“I want you all to wish me well in trying to overcome William Duncan's shadow when it comes to talking about Tsimshian people. We are not some foreign transplants that never saw Southeast Alaska before 1887. It's just not true.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Laxgyibuu Clan Crest with David R. Boxley | Sealaska Heritage · Aug 12, 2026
David Boxley
“it shows that they got to the Nass first, learned Somali, and then people decided to keep moving south, eventually going to a place called Makle-Kaafle, which is where all of the Kaafle is now in British Columbia.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Laxgyibuu Clan Crest with David R. Boxley | Sealaska Heritage · Aug 12, 2026
David Boxley
“You know, it's said, it's been written, that William Duncan might be the most successful missionary in this area. And in many ways that's true, although I know that my father and I would not be on his list of favorite people.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Laxgyibuu Clan Crest with David R. Boxley | Sealaska Heritage · Aug 12, 2026
David Boxley
“there was a conflict between the wolf people and some raven people, and we had to move down the Stikine.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Laxgyibuu Clan Crest with David R. Boxley | Sealaska Heritage · Aug 12, 2026
David Boxley
“when we went with Duncan and when you know, whether it was because we'd become Christians or whether it was because, uh, it was safe there, he had medicine that could help us from smallpox, whatever it was, um, we voluntarily gave up our chief system, which is how our house system runs.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Laxgyibuu Clan Crest with David R. Boxley | Sealaska Heritage · Aug 12, 2026
David Boxley
“they all said, oh, we heard our grandparents speaking Somali, but they'd always tell us, this is not for you. Or, you know, they kind of laugh at them when they tried to talk. It was because they were trying to protect them from what they'd all gone through.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Laxgyibuu Clan Crest with David R. Boxley | Sealaska Heritage · Aug 12, 2026
David Boxley
“We come to this glacier as we're making our escape and the story goes that there were 6 canoes and 2 of them turned back and went over the mountains to the Nass River and began to settle down on the Nass.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Laxgyibuu Clan Crest with David R. Boxley | Sealaska Heritage · Aug 12, 2026
David Boxley
“We gave up potlatching. That is devastating to try to maintain these kinds of stories and things.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Laxgyibuu Clan Crest with David R. Boxley | Sealaska Heritage · Aug 12, 2026
David Boxley
“Which is a plateau in the interior of British Columbia in between the headwaters of the Skeena, Nass, and Skeena Rivers.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Laxgyibuu Clan Crest with David R. Boxley | Sealaska Heritage · Aug 12, 2026
David Boxley
“it's really important to me that in thinking about this history, that the Laki'pul originated, migrated down the Stikine, and we used to live further north in Alaska in ancient, ancient times.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Laxgyibuu Clan Crest with David R. Boxley | Sealaska Heritage · Aug 12, 2026
David Boxley
“We have always been, uh, the next-door neighbors, Julie Plingett and I, always, to the point that we're families. But that's the truth. So it's not like somebody grabbed us from Florida and dropped us in Southeast Alaska.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Laxgyibuu Clan Crest with David R. Boxley | Sealaska Heritage · Aug 12, 2026
David Boxley
“when we first moved to Matkavik, Alaska, we came to Alaska The world was, um, upside down for us. And, um, you know, we were, you know, we had to sign paperwork that said there's no hot nacho, no calling shotlins, and no face painting, and all the things”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Laxgyibuu Clan Crest with David R. Boxley | Sealaska Heritage · Aug 12, 2026
David Boxley
“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”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Laxgyibuu Clan Crest with David R. Boxley | Sealaska Heritage · Aug 12, 2026
David Boxley
“The Laxgibu, who are again, in English we call the Wolfline, but Laxgibu means of the wolf. We originate at a place called Laxwi'ip.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Laxgyibuu Clan Crest with David R. Boxley | Sealaska Heritage · Aug 12, 2026
David Boxley
“I'm really proud to, uh, begin this process, like I said, of, of reframing Sincere History. I don't want anyone to— I, I want everyone to stop thinking that we were these foreign transplants.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Laxgyibuu Clan Crest with David R. Boxley | Sealaska Heritage · Aug 12, 2026
Petersburg Borough: Petersburg Medical Center Hospital Board Meeting July 2026 · Aug 11, 2026
Petersburg Borough: Petersburg Medical Center Hospital Board Meeting July 2026 · Aug 11, 2026
Petersburg Borough: Planning Commission Meeting 8.11.2026 · Aug 11, 2026
Becky Knight
“Planning Commission, we the Planning Commission have received nothing.”Petersburg Borough: Planning Commission Meeting 8.11.2026 · Aug 11, 2026
Becky Knight
“my first request is number one, that you authorize a moratorium on all such centers until at least our community can develop policies on them.”Petersburg Borough: Planning Commission Meeting 8.11.2026 · Aug 11, 2026
Petersburg Borough: Planning Commission Meeting 8.11.2026 · Aug 11, 2026
Mary Evans
“The proposed facility could ultimately consume the 2 megawatts of electricity continuously, 24 hours a day, 365.”Petersburg Borough: Planning Commission Meeting 8.11.2026 · Aug 11, 2026