Sara Hannan said the cemetery is on state-owned land managed by the Department of Natural Resources.īut the Juneau Democrat wants to ensure it remains open to the public by adding it and surrounding lands to the nearby Funter Bay park.
“The value of protecting the social and historical significance of this land will cement the history for good, and we will never have to repeat this history again,” Stepetin said.īill sponsor Rep. He testified in support of House Bill 122, which would expand Funter Bay State Marine Park by about 250 acres to include this historic cemetery. The Alaska House of Representatives has advanced a bill that would protect an Alaska Native cemetery at Funter Bay and add about 251 acres (about 102 hectares) of state land. Alaska lawmakers advance bill to protect cemetery ApJUNEAU, Alaska (AP) The Alaska House of Representatives has advanced a bill that would protect an Alaska Native cemetery at Funter Bay and add about 251 acres (about 102 hectares) of state land. “Even my grandma used to say, late into her late 90s, used to say things like, ‘I hope it never happens again,’” Stepetin said. Martin Stepetin told the House Resources Committee back in April that all four of his grandparents spent the war at Funter Bay in miserable conditions. More than a thousand miles away from the islanders’ ancestral home in the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea, the villagers had to make do with few provisions and little heat in a shuttered salmon cannery on Funter Bay. “I think it’s very important in terms of the state of Alaska protecting the Unangax̂ historic cemetery site,” Monteith told the House Resources Committee. George were relocated to Southeast Alaska and interned in a makeshift camp on Admiralty Island.Ībout 30 marked graves remain near the shores of Funter Bay, which descendants continue to visit. This legislation protects the cemetery in Funter Bay by expanding the park boundaries by 250 acres to include the cemetery and to honors its significance in Alaska’s history. University of Alaska Southeast anthropology associate professor Daniel Monteith told lawmakers last month that 290 islanders from St. HB 10 Funter Bay Memorial This week the House heard and passed House Bill 10, Funter Bay Marine Park: Unangan Cemetery by a vote of 31-8. JUNEAU The House of Representatives today passed a bill to protect a cemetery in Southeast Alaska. authorities forcibly evacuated more than 800 Unangax̂ people from nine villages in the remote western islands ahead of the Japanese advance. Funter Bay internment site protection bill passes, 31-8. Alaska lawmakers are considering expanding a state park to include historic graves of Unangax̂ people who were among those who died in World War II internment camps.Īfter the Japanese bombed Dutch Harbor in 1942, U.S.
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