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Kaitlin Jade Armstrong

@kaitlinak.bsky.social

audio producer on Dena’ina Ełnena creator of The Alaska Myth and Contaminated: ANCSA’s Unfinished Business (coming Oct 1) Anchorage Press Astrology Editor

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Kaitlin Jade Armstrong @kaitlinak.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Intriguing questions on every flyer!

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Kaitlin Jade Armstrong @kaitlinak.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

P.S. If you liked this article I made a whole podcast about it, plus other settler myths that warp our view of Alaska’s history and identity. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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The Alaska Myth

History Podcast · Updated Biweekly · A podcast about the myths that shape how Alaskans view our history and ourselves.

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Kaitlin Jade Armstrong @kaitlinak.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Sourdough status-off 😂so apt.

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Dave in AK @bikewritedave.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“Frontier” is a word that, like “wilderness,” I’ve come to dislike. It implies these lands weren’t populated until the first white people showed up. It’s an old trope that made its way across the continent and up to Alaska, where wannabe politicians cosplay as pioneering types.

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the scotts must be crazy @scottymax.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is excellent. With so much unique culture in Alaska, political campaigns continue to lean into imported tropes www.northernjournal.com/alaska-polit...

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Alaska politicians sport beards and bear-hunting bona fides to claim authenticity. But those tropes originated Outside.

The ‘Real Alaskan’ is cheap repackaging of what one historian describes as hunter-heroes, Kaitlin Jade Armstrong writes in an opinion piece.

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Kaitlin Jade Armstrong @kaitlinak.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Thank you for sharing! I know I’m far from the only one who’s been thinking this 😅

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Kaitlin Jade Armstrong @kaitlinak.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

But he also doesn’t lean as hard into the Real Alaska positioning as some other candidates mentioned. The article was a broad survey of this phenomenon, so I addressed extremes.

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Kaitlin Jade Armstrong @kaitlinak.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Hey! Thanks for this comment. IMO Begich occupies an interesting aesthetic middle ground - he’s often pictured in plaid, uses “defend Alaska” language and his actual music definitely has a folksy frontier quality to it (according to a quick peruse of Spotify).

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