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Is it an Orca?
Honestly I thought this was a Seaworld flag. It doesn’t look very good.
Also there is no “North Alaska Providence”. There is no geographical or political area with that name. The map you show in a lower comment includes several different communities, indigenous tribes, Russian settlements, and northern communities in several different burroughs and territories.
Yes, it's an Orca, I was thinking of this region:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Alaska
That is not a defined region however. It includes many different indigenous groups and disconnected communities with their own local governments and representatives. They don’t want to be a single region, which is why it’s a grouping of several different Burroughs like the article states.
The “Far North” only exists on paper for US government policy. It isn’t actually used in practice.
Orcas are also not that unique to the region, so I’m not sure why they should be the defining symbol.
Because orcas are the coolest creatures(after bears) and why not, for some reason not a lot of flags have them afaik.