Peter Stanton

I'm a history teacher writing a book on the Tlingit nineteenth century. Waashdan Ḵwáan. Kichx̱áanx' yéi x̱at yatee. (American settler in Ketchikan) (he/him)

[Peter Stanton @peterstanton]

@username_eunik @adndotcom @WrgSentinel I assume you also believe the British were justified in attacking New Orleans in 1814—enormous slave trading port.

[Peter Stanton @peterstanton]

@zack_gilbert @adndotcom @WrgSentinel The US was never at war with any of the Stikine clans—hence the apology for attacking a community that didn't deserve to be attacked. Records indicate that ten months earlier they specifically declined to join an alliance being proposed by a clan from Kake to attack the US forts.

[Peter Stanton @peterstanton]

It is absolutely bananas for people to make graphics like this that put clean, super-efficient nuclear energy into the same "non-renewable" category as oil and coal.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

How green are the G20 economies? No surprise that Russia isn’t on the clean energy path. The Chinese efforts towards green energy must always be seen from a security point of view but are really impressive so far. Good on you, Brazil.

[Peter Stanton @peterstanton]

@alaskanrobby The most fun part of the story is that the assembly seat is the one vacated by the person elected to replace him. So if he's appointed it's just a switcheroo.

[Peter Stanton @peterstanton]

@AlexxW_99 The de-colonial option is actually to get a couple hundred thousand conservatives to move out—which is conceivable if Alaska's economy and services continue their steady decline.

[Peter Stanton @peterstanton]

@MarkSpringer Some of these areas are not really "rural." South and North Tongass are suburban. Unless Ketchikan is "rural," and then they are suburbs of a rural town?

[Robert Dillon @RA_Dillon]

“This election, cast a no vote on Ballot Measure 2 and keep political power in Alaska where it belongs — with the voters” – @adndotcom editorial board. https://t.co/4PMlhFal2p @No_On2AK

[Mike's Hard Remoulade @condiricenbeans]

I'm Nick Begich and I was born and raised right here in Alaska

[Peter Stanton @peterstanton]

@mjs_DC I mean, it's not bizarre if the whole point is to undermine public schooling.

[Cole Stangler @ColeStangler]

Ah yes the two extremes. The one that wants to raise the minimum wage and increase investment in public services and the other that wants to deport all the undocumented immigrants and deny jobs to French citizens who are dual nationals https://t.co/wmGpKqbBTo

[Sen. Bill Wielechowski @SenWielechowski]

With ten consecutive years of outmigration in Alaska, the Governor’s vetoes will continue to drive businesses and working families out of the State 1/

[Peter Stanton @peterstanton]

@shtaxheen I'm "liking" this tweet in supportive anger.

[Peter Stanton @peterstanton]

@MagickalR Thanks. I've been an amateur Wikipedia editor in the past, but clearly I don't have what it takes to make additions that will stick. The sources that I used in the past for my edits apparently weren't good enough, and it seems the bigwigs would rather it be a stub.

[Peter Stanton @peterstanton]

If there are any kind Wikipedians who see this tweet, I would greatly appreciate it if you could take a look at the Ketchikan High School article. It's absolutely atrocious. All the details that I and others added back in the day were scrubbed. https://t.co/QVX0fwWLHM

[Peter Stanton @peterstanton]

@EnviroSci I'm glad you appreciated it! I got a little bit of pushback on that one, but no one made any points that made me regret anything I wrote about the book.

[Peter Stanton @peterstanton]

Ketchikan has so many issues going on right now, I picked out three of the biggest to write about all at once: https://t.co/w5dqmMeBys

[Peter Stanton @peterstanton]

@EliseWoodard20 Even if all books were electronic, (which they most certainly are not), index entries are a great way to judge what a book gives the most attention to. Ctrl+f'ing a random list of topics you think will be in the book and then comparing result numbers would not be equivalent.

[Peter Stanton @peterstanton]

@kylejo574 MY lobbyist? I'm way too busy teaching teenagers about history to know that I have a lobbyist, let alone know what my lobbyist should or shouldn't know.

[Peter Stanton @peterstanton]

@kylejo574 That may be the case for May, but there are a lot of things that could have happened differently in March and April that would have not set up the school board for that action.

[Peter Stanton @peterstanton]

@socialaskan Also, the disrespect to POW and cannery history by missing Klawock? Unconscionable.