Michael Oleksa

If folks really want to move the capital, I suggest Douglas, from where there are beautiful views of the Mendenhall Glacier and downtown Juneau.

History, like human beings, is always more complicated than we expect, but deciding whom to honor with a monument should not be so difficult.

Please, everyone, become Lone Rangers. Be heroes. Help isolate and defeat this criminal who seeks to destroy us all. Wear your masks!

Alaska is best when we realize our indigenous languages, cultures and perspectives are a valuable heritage we should all appreciate.

All Alaskans need to help our rural communities become sustainable economically, socially, politically and spiritually.

This is not just Alaska Native history, but also the history of Alaska, the story all Alaskans should know and embrace as ours, our culture.

For 100 years, Native Alaskans went to a school where their own language was forbidden, their history and culture benignly ignored or violently demeaned, denigrated, even persecuted. The curriculum was the same course of studies as anywhere else in the U.S. And after 8th grade, the best and brightest students were recruited to attend boarding schools hundreds, even thousands, of miles from home.