Tag: indigenous
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Opinion: Anchorage is failing Alaska Native women who go missing
I am a new resident to Anchorage, having moved here in June 2024 from Unalakleet, my beloved home community. I am Inupiaq and Yup’ik and have done my best to raise my children to be proud of who they are and where they come from. Living in Anchorage and raising a young Alaska Native son…
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I wish I was ice fishing
When my nephew, Kael, was about 9 years old, that formative age where the world imprints itself upon you, he came to Anchorage from his home in Unalakleet, Alaska, with his auntie, Heidi. It was summer, and he was loving all the diversions of the big city. Movies, shopping at the mall, meals at restaurants,…
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