Taikuusuuna Tikigaq!

With our name, Point Hope Congress, we seek to honor and recognize the role that the community of Tikigaq (Point Hope) Alaska played in protesting and halting Project Chariot, a 1958 proposal to detonate up to six hydrogen bombs in Northwest Alaska. The people of Tikigaq stood up against the then-all-powerful U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, questioning the AEC’s falsehoods and recording their meetings, to ensure accuracy and assure proper follow-through by the US government. Media activism was right there, at the very roots of Alaskans’ nuclear-free Arctic efforts.

Chapter 100 of Veterans For Peace makes this virtual land acknowledgement and thanks the City Council and Native Village Tribal Council of Point Hope for their support and generosity in sharing the name 'Point Hope' with our efforts to protect the Arctic. Taikuusuuna.