Subsistence/Food security
2026 Radio Series – Episode 4: Health
“We only had a head nurse and not a doctor, and she came and she asked me what I was doing, and I tell her I’m looking for a job. At the age of 14, she wrote down my name and then she said, you know what? You came at just the right time.” -Helen Peters
Read More2026 Radio Series – Episode 3: Leadership
“this is what I want our kids to have. This is why we do the things. That’s why Tlingit and Haida and and all these organizations, it’s like we’re a race against the clock. But at the same time, the solution is just to be indigenous.”
-Gloria Wolfe
Donning a flag for graduation
“If I were in Ethiopia right now, I would be in jail already, or probably I would be killed.”
Read MoreBraving thin ice
“I’d say within the last 20 years maybe about 15 of those years we’ve seen a lot of changes in our climates with floods, erosions, fall storms.”
Read MoreA different world
“When we went back, again, we just listened. We didn’t have any questions, we didn’t have any ideas, and that space for communication grew back.”
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?”
Read MoreResearching salmon as a student of two worlds
“I feel that we all have a role at the smokehouse and that gives you some worth in your core. Like, you have a role in this family and you’re important.”
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