Three elementary school students in Dillingham had been working to change the name of a local creek long before the federal government started removing a slur against Indigenous women from place names on federal lands.
Alora Wassily, Harmony Larson, and Trista Wassily with names community members suggested for the creek in Dillingham. to remove a slur against Indigenous women from place names on federal lands. Nearly 650 new names were finalized this fall, including one for a Dillingham creek that bore the slur.
They began advocating for the change when they were in fifth grade, after they heard a local story about seven sisters who had lived along the creek and how both the creek and a road of the same name were marked with the derogatory word. Since then, they have presented their research to the Curyung Tribal Council, the Alaska Federation of Natives Elders and Youth Conference, and the Bristol Bay Native Corporation. Robyn Chaney helped the students prepare. She is the Federal Programs Coordinator for Dillingham city schools and has been an adult advisor for the students.
The students recommended renaming the creek Al’a Creek, and they received broad support from the community during a listening session last spring. But at the last minute, a Curyung Tribal Council member suggested a different name: Amau Creek. Chaney said that was difficult. “Amau Creek translates to ‘great-grandparent’ and is a Yugtun word. And in this case it references a group of sisters, or great-grandmothers, who according to traditional stories traveled to the area and settled near the creek,” Demoski said. “So the community recognized the role of the great-grandmothers in their families and chose the name to honor their ancestors.”
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