Well Desa, when our nation no longer exist and our people falls into ruin and slavery, then you can called it "Ours" once more. But until then, we called it "Alaska" and all of us living here now...may you be natives, whites, Hispanics, Asians, blacks or whatever with all these silly hyphens, are called Alaskans! And each Alaskan are no better then any other Alaskans, even if you were here first and I was here last. And in a town the size of Barrow and its ethnic diversity, this act of resorting to a native name, is called dividing the community. Just remembered that name change only won by 51%, that is NOT a mandate. I do apologized for calling you a "racist"...I know that you are not that way but metaphorically, you come across that way......"why can't you speak native, anyone can", I can't! Language is one of my weak links in my skill sets. Many of my distractors still whine about my past tense mistakes!!