
Trust Your Gut, and Stand Up!
Ḵaax̲gal.aat (“person who packs for themselves”) is the Tlingit name for Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich, who is now known as an Alaska Native social justice warrior, but in 1945, she was an extremely marginalized Alaska Native woman in a very hostile environment. She was also a concerned citizen in the state capital, Juneau. I imagine her […]