A warming climate means where and how people harvest berries is changing.
Subsistence
Qayassiq’s walrus hunt, once banned, now carries traditions of sharing and management to the next generation
In their long fight to regain access to a traditional hunting ground, tribal leaders created a model for communities to act as equal management partners.
An Alaska district aligns its school year with traditional subsistence harvests
Three Alaska Native Villages have changed their school calendar so that students now can take part in things like the fall moose hunt and the spring migratory bird harvest.
Marshall’s tribal president speaks on the cultural toll of the Yukon River salmon crash
Marshall’s tribal president, Nick Andrew Jr., has fished for salmon commercially and for subsistence since he was five. He spoke with KYUK about the salmon crisis, and the emotional and cultural tolls it has taken on his community.
New Sitka research could help berry pickers adjust to climate change
Lead researcher Alex McCarrel says changes in climate can disrupt berry development because a berry plant’s life cycle is precisely tuned to its environment.
Trooper citations for salmon discards add grist to regional Alaska fishery dispute
Accusations of ‘chum chucking’ could affect the long-running debate over Alaska Peninsula commercial harvests’ impact on Yukon and Kuskowkim salmon runs.
On the Yukon, Alaska and Canada are bound together by salmon – and their collapse
Communities along the upper Yukon, stretching deep into Canada, have borne the brunt of the salmon collapse, in part because only a fraction of the fish make it that far upriver.
Kake breaks ground on Alaska’s first modern clam garden
The community hopes the project will preserve an important food source and keep traditional knowledge alive.
Alaska harvesters and scientists are concerned about the health of black seaweed
Harvesters are having to travel farther and farther to find the seaweed, which is an important traditional food source.
Men are hunters, women are gatherers. That was the assumption. A new study upends it.
The implications are potentially enormous, says history professor Kimberly Hamlin: “The myth that man is the hunter and woman is the gatherer … naturalizes the inferiority of women.”