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Juneau Assembly change land acknowledgment wording after Indigenous group dispute accuracy


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The Juneau Assembly started to include a land acknowledgment as part of its regular meetings in February and made it an official part of meetings in May. But then it got a letter from a group called the Áak’w Kwáan Coalition Council asking the city to stop acknowledging another clan, the T’aaḵu Kwáan, at the beginning of its assembly meetings. Wayne Klusaa Áak’w Smallwood represents the Áak’w Kwáan Coalition Council. He says T’aaḵu Kwáan aren’t Native to the Juneau area and that they came from
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