The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is investigating whether there are systemic problems with the way FEMA works with Alaska’s Indigenous communities.
The hurricane-force winds and high water brought by Typhoon Merbok leveled storage sheds, destroyed boats and ruined hunting and fishing equipment Alaska Native people use for subsistence. In response, the Federal Emergency Management Agency made those items eligible for disaster relief and recovery funds. But, some of the agency's aid documents were mistranslated into gibberish instead of local Indigenous languages. Now, FEMA is the subject of a civil rights investigation.
It turns out that the company FEMA hired to do the translations has no record of working in the Indigenous languages spoken in Alaska.“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,” Jimmie said. ”I text my kids in Yup’ik. They respond in Yup’ik, and people are posting in Yup’ik on Facebook, and yeah, Yup’ik is still alive.”.
The mistranslations were particularly galling to Berlin, who grew up speaking Yugtun, because he remembers a time when the federal government forbade Alaska Natives and American Indians from speaking their languages at all.
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