Alaska's governor signed legislation over the weekend establishing the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples Day in Alaska — replacing Columbus Day. (AKpublicnews)
Governor Walker in Utqiaġvik on June 24, 2017 after signing Indigenous Peoples Day into state law.
Representative Dean Westlake of Kotzebue, Senator Donny Olson of Nome, and Representative Zach Fansler of Bethel were in attendance for the signing, along with a number of representatives from the North Slope Borough. That’s according to Representative Fansler, who was also the first co-signer for House Bill 78, put forward by the representative from Kotzebue.
“People were already super enthusiastic,” Fansler said. “And then when you couple that with the idea that we were signing into law something that establishes the second Monday [of October] as Indigenous Peoples Day, you know it just made it all the better.”
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