Tribal identity
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
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“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
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 MorePartnering with communities for reciprocal research
“There’s this history of research happening, disregarding those pieces, and I’m really excited about this as a mechanism to shine a light on that, and ask those questions: does this work really need to be done? Are you willing to invest in the relationships with the community to ensure that your work is meaningful to the people who live here, and if not, then maybe we need to think twice about it.” -Lauren Bell
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 MoreStorytelling as a conduit of culture
“Since our existence is glued together by stories and songs and language, all of our laws and everything, I have a certain way of looking at stories that the next generation won’t be able to accommodate.”
Read MoreMaking connections with neighbors and ancestors
“It’s so overwhelming. The scope of problems we face in our communities, let alone climate change on an international or world level problems, sanitation issues, landfill issues”
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 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 MoreKeeping an eye on the land
“Done a little bit of everything you can imagine, from recycling pop cans to fuel spill response and contaminated site cleanups and brownfields, the whole gamut of things we can run in to in the villages.”
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