Barbie goes to fish campEvery summer, Barbie travels with her family to fish camp to harvest and process fish for winter use. She's shown here cutting up a salmon using a tłaabaas (curved knife) and wearing a betsegh hoolaanee (qaspeq), or summer parka. July 27, 2023 (Photo… Aug 01 23August 01, 2023Article at ICT
Fish flown in after Yukon salmon plummetYukon River chum salmon, which make up 70 percent of the subsistence harvest in the region, didn’t turn up this year. Neighbors are helping out but people worry about hunger in the coming winter. It’s as if emergency food supplies had to be delivered… Aug 13 21August 13, 2021Article at Indian Country Today
Indigenous knowledge is key to ‘ecosystem-wide phenomena’Alaska Native elders with decades of experience in daily interactions with their environment saw changes in species that forage across a wide spectrum — near shore, far from shore and both on the surface and at ocean depth. Ilarion ‘Kuuyux’… Jun 17 21June 17, 2021Article at Indian Country Today
Biden to reinstate road ban for Tongass National ForestSeveral tribes and Alaska Natives are applauding the Biden administration’s plans to revive a ban on road-building in the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska. The “roadless rule” had been in place for 20 years until last fall, when federal… Jun 16 21June 16, 2021Article at Indian Country Today
Donation boosts food security in southwest AlaskaAn Alaska Native corporation is putting $50,000 toward region's coronavirus relief efforts An Alaska Native for-profit corporation in southwest Alaska is donating $50,000 for COVID-19 relief for in-region needs, particularly food security. Koniag was… Apr 24 20April 24, 2020Article at Indian Country Today
