Assemblywoman Meg Zaletel is offering an ordinance during Tuesday’s Anchorage Assembly meeting that will require the display of the “land acknowledgement” on the wall of the Assembly Chambers.
Already, the Assembly has an ordinance that requires the oral recitation of a “land acknowledgement” statement that says that the non-Natives who live and work in Alaska are colonizers and that there needs to be decolonization in Alaska, and some equity, too. Now that statement will be posted on the wall, too.
The proposed change to the municipal code can be read here…