#hawaiian in alaska

[moomoocowmaid]

I'm embarking on a magical journey (dentist appointment) to a distant village, and I have vowed to purchase the enchanting hat that has been calling out to me—a wizard hat (burgundy trapper hat). It will enable me to seamlessly blend into my surroundings (Alaska core??)

[runwayrunway]

So, Alaskan is buying Hawaiian. What’s your hot take?

Well this certainly aged

[ohgeesoap]

Using only song titles of one artist/band, cleverly answer the questions and then tag people.

Thank you @deadbranch for the tag 🩷

Artist/band: BANKS

What's your gender: Goddess

How do you feel: Better

If you could go anywhere: Alaska

Favorite mode of transportation: Trainwreck

Your best friend: Mother Earth

Favorite time of the day: Till Now

If your life was a TV Show: Gemini Feed

Relationship status: Fuck with Myself

Your fears: Drowning

Tagging @madstronaut @holywild @loser-sons @omkdear

[fwmdks2]

Thank you President Biden!

[airline-gijinka]

Hi it’s been 3 months since I last posted

The last 2 one is Varney speed lines and Phoenix Air services

[gaeiae]

the way i would sacrifice my firstborn for alaska native representation in media

[gotjacobian]

Or if you want the 20 songs on spotify that I considered my (unordered) top 10 TMG songs a year ago: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/60GRZItbK6b2WCAHQBJhkE?si=c76736d470834a7b

you can tell a lot about a persons mental health by their favorite mountain goats song so reblog this and tell me your favorite mountain goats song, mine is currently heel turn 1

[uniqueeval]

Alaska-Hawaiian airline merger clears DOT review

Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines can go through with their planned merger, but they must maintain the value of their airline reward systems and preserve several key routes, the U.S. Department of Transportation said Tuesday. The two carriers’ $1.9 billion merger agreement cleared the U.S. Justice Department’s review last month. That put it in the hands of the Transportation Department, which…

[alanisgirl2023]

We can take our camping gears on airplanes.

[rockythebullterrier]

Here are 11 US-based airlines that allow pets to fly in-cabin

Many of us wish we can take our pet with us everywhere we go and not to have to worry about leaving them behind when we travel. If it’s a nearby trip, perhaps you can pack your bags and your pet and simply travel by car. However, if it’s a long trip, that’s when it can be challenging to travel with your pets. Thankfully, there are plenty of airlines across the USA that allow you to bring your pet…

[reasonsforhope]

"The U.S. government is entering a new era of collaboration with Native American and Alaska Native leaders in managing public lands and other resources, with top federal officials saying that incorporating more Indigenous knowledge into decision-making can help spur conservation and combat climate change.

Federal emergency managers on Thursday also announced updates to recovery policies to aid tribal communities in the repair or rebuilding of traditional homes or ceremonial buildings after a series of wildfires, floods and other disasters around the country.

With hundreds of tribal leaders gathering in Washington this week for an annual summit, the Biden administration is celebrating nearly 200 new agreements that are designed to boost federal cooperation with tribes nationwide.

The agreements cover everything from fishery restoration projects in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest to management of new national monuments in the Southwestern U.S., seed collection work in Montana and plant restoration in the Great Smoky Mountains.

“The United States manages hundreds of millions of acres of what we call federal public lands. Why wouldn’t we want added capacity, added expertise, millennia of knowledge and understanding of how to manage those lands?” U.S. Interior Assistant Secretary Bryan Newland said during a panel discussion.

The new co-management and co-stewardship agreements announced this week mark a tenfold increase over what had been inked just a year earlier, and officials said more are in the pipeline.

Newland, a citizen of the Bay Mills Indian Community in northern Michigan, said each agreement is unique. He said each arrangement is tailored to a tribe’s needs and capacity for helping to manage public lands — and at the very least assures their presence at the table when decisions are made.

The federal government is not looking to dictate to tribal leaders what a partnership should look like, he said...

The U.S. government controls more than a quarter of the land in the United States, with much of that encompassing the ancestral homelands of federally recognized tribes...

Tribes and advocacy groups have been pushing for arrangements that go beyond the consultation requirements mandated by federal law.

Researchers at the University of Washington and legal experts with the Native American Rights Fund have put together a new clearinghouse on the topic. They point out that public lands now central to the country’s national heritage originated from the dispossession and displacement of Indigenous people and that co-management could present on opportunity for the U.S. to reckon with that complicated legacy...

In an attempt to address complaints about chronic underfunding across Indian Country, President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order on the first day of the summit that will make it easier for tribes to find and access grants.

Deanne Criswell, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told tribal leaders Thursday that her agency [FEMA] began work this year to upgrade its disaster guidance particularly in response to tribal needs.

The Indigenous people of Hawaii have increasingly been under siege from disasters, most recently a devastating fire that killed dozens of people and leveled an entire town. Just last month, another blaze scorched a stretch of irreplaceable rainforest on Oahu.

Tribes in California and Oregon also were forced to seek disaster declarations earlier this year after severe storms resulted in flooding and mudslides...

Criswell said the new guidance includes a pathway for Native American, Alaska Native and Hawaiian communities to request presidential disaster declarations, providing them with access to emergency federal relief funding. [Note: This alone is potentially a huge deal. A presidential disaster declaration unlocks literally millions of dollars in federal aid and does a lot to speed up the response.]

The agency also is now accepting tribal self-certified damage assessments and cost estimates for restoring ceremonial buildings or traditional homes, while not requiring site inspections, maps or other details that might compromise culturally sensitive data."

-via AP, December 7, 2023

[moomoocowmaid]

Tell me why no one in Alaska covers their mouth when yawning

They just stare at me with their mouth wide open like a baby bird

[sniperct]

President Biden on Friday issued a formal presidential apology to Native American communities for the atrocities committed against Indigenous children and their families during a 150-year era of forced federal Indian boarding schools.The president chose to speak at the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona, although he apologized to all tribal nations for their generations of suffering. "After 150 years, the United States government eventually stopped the program," the president said. "But the federal government has never, never formally apologized for what happened — until today. I formally apologize, as president of the United States of America, for what we did. I formally apologize. That's long overdue."

The history is personal for Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the United States' first-ever Native American Cabinet Secretary. Her maternal grandparents were 8 years old when they were taken from their communities and placed in a Catholic boarding school until they were 13, and her great-grandfather was also forced into an Indian boarding school. "Tens of thousands of Indigenous children as young as 4 years old were taken from their families and communities and forced into boarding schools run by the U.S. government and religious institutions," Haaland said Friday in Arizona. "These federal Indian boarding schools have impacted every Indigenous person I know. Some are survivors, some are descendants. But we all carry the trauma that these policies and these places inflicted. This is the first time in history that a United States Cabinet secretary has shared the traumas of our past, and I acknowledge that this trauma was perpetrated by the agency that I now lead." Haaland conducted the first-ever federal investigation into the Indian federal boarding school era. The probe revealed that more than 500 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children's deaths occurred at 19 of the federal Indian boarding schools, and identified 53 marked and unmarked burial sites at school sites nationwide. 

[kikithegr8]

So here goes somebody’s son for Jin’s faceclaim. I do not know what this boy’s name is. Nash is the only name associated with his pics. I think he is Filipino even though Jin is probably Japanese or Chinese right (I only know that from googling the name Jin. It means bright beautiful gold which I thought was cool because my character’s name is Soleil so I thought we were meant to be until I met Shawn.)?

**Warning: The photo of this human is most likely not an accurate representation of the fictional character. I’m ashamed to admit I do think all Asian people for the purposes of face-claims are interchangeable. In my defense I think the same about African people, white people, Hispanic and Latino people, American Indian or Alaska natives, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders…the list goes on. I do try to get accurate skin color because of colorism but with some slight exceptions.

He sure is cute tho…I typically do not know the ethnicity of the fictional characters or the face claims for anyone, I just pick someone cute that looks similar to me, but wanted to point this out because that is important to some people and it’s valid.

I’ll just stick to Black people moving forward.

[archivaltrigger]

“Because the US government was not acting on mass shootings, we directly attacked a trait Americans are most known for: their pride in their country. Change the Ref created the Shamecards, a postcard collection designed to demand gun law reform from Congress. Subverting the traditional greeting cards that depict each city’s landmarks, ours show what cities are becoming known for.”

shamecards.org

There is 54 cards total representing:

Annapolis — Maryland: Capital Gazette Shooting

Atlanta — Georgia: Day Trading Firm Shootings

Benton — Kentucky: Marshall County High School Shooting

Bethel — Alaska: Regional High School Shooting

Binghamton — New York: Binghamton Shooting

Blacksburg — Virginia: Virginia Tech Massacre

Camden – New Jersey: Walk of Death Massacre

Charleston — South Carolina: Charleston Church Shooting

Charlotte — North Carolina: 2019 University Shooting

Cheyenne — Wyoming: Senior Home Shooting

Chicago — Illinois: Medical Center Shooting

Clovis — New Mexico: Clovis Library Shooting

Columbine — Colorado: Columbine

Dayton — Ohio: Dayton Shooting

Edmond — Oklahoma: Post Office Shooting

El Paso — Texas: El Paso Shooting

Ennis — Montana: Madison County Shooting

Essex Junction — Vermont: Essex Elementary School Shooting

Geneva — Alabama: Geneva County Massacre.

Grand Forks — North Dakota: Grand Forks Shooting

Hesston — Kansas: Hesston Shooting

Honolulu — Hawaii: First Hawaiian Mass Shooting

Huntington — West Virginia: New Year's Eve Shooting

Indianapolis — Indiana: Hamilton Avenue Murders

Iowa City — Iowa: University Shooting

Jonesboro — Arkansas: Middle School Massacre

Kalamazoo — Michigan: Kalamazoo Shooting

Lafayette — Louisana: Lafayette Shooting

Las Vegas — Nevada: Las Vegas Strip Shooting

Madison — Maine: Madison Rampage

Meridian — Mississippi: Meridian Company Shooting

Moscow — Idaho: Moscow Rampage

Nashville — Tennessee: Nashville Waffle House shooting

Newtown — Connecticut: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Omaha — Nebraska: Westroads Mall shooting

Orlando — Florida: Pulse Nightclub Shooting

Parkland — Florida: Parkland School Shooting

Pelham — New Hampshire: Wedding Shooting

Pittsburgh — Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting

Prices Corner — Delaware: Delaware Shooting

Red Lake — Minnesota: Indian Reservation Shooting

Roseburg — Oregon: Umpqua Community Collage Shooting

Salt Lake City — Utah: Salt Lake City Mall Shooting

San Diego — California: San Ysidro Massacre

Santa Fe — Texas: Santa Fe School Shooting

Schofield — Wisconsin: Marathon County Shooting

Seattle — Washington: Capitol Hill Massacre

Sisseton — South Dakota: Sisseton Massacre

St. Louis — Missouri: Power Plant Shooting

Sutherland Springs — Texas: Sutherland Springs Church Shooting

Tucson — Arizona: Tocson Shooting

Wakefield — Massachusetts: Tech Company Massacre

Washington — D.C.: Navy Yard Shooting

Westerly — Rhode Island: Assisted-Living Complex Rampage

[olowan-waphiya]

note the downplaying of the headline vs the reality. this is just the confirmed number.

“And the report confirms that at least 973 American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children died while attending schools in the system. The Department acknowledges that the actual number of children who died while attending Indian boarding schools is likely greater.”

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“The investigation also confirms that there are at least 74 marked or unmarked burial sites at 65 of the schools. One initiative proposed in the report is to identify and repatriate the remains of children who never returned home from the schools.”