Community engagement
The work of being ourselves: Following the tides from Yakutat to Kasaan
“Could you even imagine if you could try to outgive me? ʼI’m going to give better than you.ʼ What kind of world would we live in?” -George Nix
Read MorePaths to the Arctic converge in coproduction
“A lot of what I’ve learned is the academic history of exploitation of communities in the Arctic. Iʼm trying to teach myself as much as I can such that when I’m in a position that I am leading a project, that I have input to make sure that things are done correctly” -Margaret Anamaq Rudolf
Read MoreTracking community coastal change
“I’ve seen an artistry come out of Alaska, it has changed, the way in which we’ve articulated in which our resources are important to us and how we’ve done that through art, and other type of expression, that makes me really hopeful.” – Davin Holen
Read MoreWhen the ice dam fails
“We landed and when we landed the basin was finishing draining. So the glacier ice where we landed was still settling and cracking, it was very disconcerting.” – Eran Hood
Read MoreKeeping up with community climate concerns
“Droughts and floods I think are the particular climate events that I think we’d be most concerned about.” – John Walsh
Read MorePartnerships
“As a leader you’re not there to tell people what to do. You’re there to support them succeeding at what they already can do best or helping them learn to do something better.”
Read MoreArctic diplomacy and Native Movement
“I think the more that we talk about our differences and our full stories and how they’ve informed where we’re at, that is how we make the community stronger for whatever we face.”
Read MoreBreaking the ice with a steam bath in rural Alaska
“I told him we have a sand dune that’s erupting in the middle of our airstrip and there was a tribal member who got stuck in a sinkhole.”
Read MoreTyonek Grown: Sharing harvest and heritage
“I don’t think climate change is something we should just wait off until disaster. I just think we need to be more prepped and figure out how far ahead can we get our stock up?”
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