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Topic: Queen Lili‘uokalani

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2005, file photo, an ATV dreives past caribou antlers on one of the dirt roads in Barrow, Alaska. Residents in Barrow, the nation's northernmost community, have voted to change the name of their city back to its traditional Inupiaq name of Utqiagvik. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File) (AP)

Alaska has a linguistic emergency

Rosalyn R. LaPier - The Conversation