If you’re going to talk about arctic shipping, talk to Alaska’s tribes | Alaska Dispatch News
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It was like walking into the junior high school cafeteria for the first time. I looked around, trying to see if there was someone I knew that I could sit next to. The room for “Alaska Forum 2015: A Summit on Shipping and Ports” (Aug. 23-25 in Anchorage) was so full there were people standing at the back. I wandered around to the side and sat in a lone empty chair, still looking.
In a room of hundreds of people all talking about shipping off the west coast of Alaska, I saw maybe two people that I knew represented tribal governments, both from the same village. It struck me that this critically important conversation about developing a massive shipping corridor on their front doorstep was happening without the tribes. People are talking about them and their homes but not to them.