Native Leader, Caleb Pungowiyi Passes Away
SAVOONGA-Native leader and former president of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, Caleb Pungowiyi passed away yesterday, July 25th, from cancer at the age of 69. He chaired the ICC from 1992 until 1995.
Kivalina: A Climate Change Story
Today's rural article is a continuing look at Kivalina. Last week we posted work titled, "Relocating Alaska Natives: The Climate is Changing Faster Than Disaster Management and Adaptation Policies," from Christine Shearer, today we continue with her and bring to you the Introduction of her new book, "Kivalina: A Climate Change Story," published by Haymarket […]
Relocating Alaska Natives: The Climate is Changing Faster Than Disaster Management and Adaptation Policies
In 2008, I took a tiny cargo plane to the Inupiaq village of Kivalina, in the northwest of Alaska above the Arctic Circle. I had heard the village would be lost to climate change from erosion, which I imagined to be a slow, gradual, and predictable process.
Composting in Rural Alaska
FAIRBANKS-Alaska is two and a half times larger than the largest state in the lower 48 states. Over half of the entire state’s population lives within the municipality of Anchorage. Many Alaskan villages can only be reached by boat or airplane and are the end receivers of all packaging brought into the communities. Cardboard is […]