The Bottom Line | We must embrace our 
Native American heritage

Washington was one of the last states to get statehood and become a part of the United States of America. Alaska came a while later, and from the beginning, these two states have been linked together at the hip.

Before and after Alaska gained its statehood, Washington senators played a major role in that state’s development, and most of the goods and services that went to Alaska came directly off the wharf in Seattle.

So it is no surprise that Alaska Airlines is such a major presence at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport because Seattle is still the gateway to Alaska. At the end of a trip to Alaska, visitors are presented with a pictorial display and history of the Native American tribes in Alaska. On our side of that gateway — with an airport named for a Native American chief (Seattle) and a Native American tribe (Tacoma) — there is no reference to Native American heritage.

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