FEMA under investigation after ‘unintelligible’ Merbok relief information was sent to Alaska Natives

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FEMA under investigation after ‘unintelligible’ Merbok relief information was sent to Alaska Natives
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The storm surge from Typhoon Merbok brought high water 17 miles inland to Chevak from the Bering Sea coast, where boats parked on the Ninglikfak River were tossed around like bathtub toys.

A Federal Emergency Management brochure incorrectly presented as an Iñupiaq translation. It is written using the Inuktitut alphabet – a language spoken in the central and eastern Canadian Arctic – though speakers say it is garbled in that language as well. “There’s a lot of Yup’ik. There’s kids still growing up Yup’ik as their first language and they go to school and learn English,” she said. “I text my kids in Yup’ik.

“Yeah, assimilation: this is what was happening,” he said. “They were trying to do away with our language.”

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