‘“Your husband is a polar bear’: FEMA fires Berkeley group for nonsensical Alaska Native translations
By MARK THIESSEN | The Associated Press
“Tomorrow he will go hunting very early, and will nothing,” read one passage. The translator randomly added the word “Alaska” in the middle of the sentence.Yet another was written entirely in Inuktitut, an Indigenous language spoken in northern Canada, far from Alaska. People take part in an Alaska Native dance Jan. 20, 2020, in Toksook Bay, Alaska, a mostly Yup'ik village on the edge of the Bering Sea. The Federal Emergency Management Agency provided financial aid applications in both Yup'ik and Inupiaq for Alaska Native speakers following a typhoon, but the translated materials were so bungled they did not make sense.
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