All Episodes
An average field season, other than meeting the spouse
“Their formal role in this is to make sure I don’t die and my role is to make sure they experience a different part of the world that they wouldn’t get to otherwise.”
Off-road adventures in northern Alaska
“My path now is to be a leader and to make conditions such that I’m encouraging other people such as yourself have those sorts of adventures”
Lessons on long drives and muddy trails
“I want to be one of those ladies that’s dirty every day and slugging through places without trails.”
Braving 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.”
A 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.”
Tyonek 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?”
Keeping 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.”
Researching 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.”