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Climate Change Has Forced Indigenous Peoples in This Alaskan City to Pay $99 for a Turkey

In the Alaskan city of Kotzebue, the lack of sea ice stands to threaten the Iñupiat people’s ability to attain food sovereignty and adhere to their traditional ways of eating. The Iñupiat make up about 70 percent of the city’s 3,500 residents, and—out of both economic necessity and culture—many Iñupiat have a subsistence diet where they hunt seal, geese, ptarmigan, moose, and caribou from the seas to the tundra to the mountains.

Lance Kramer is Iñupiat, and a former elementary school teacher who is now a pastor, working with youth and suicide prevention. His tribe traditionally has hunted whales, seals, and polar bears, and he does the same, as well as teaches those in his family and community to hunt as well. But the climate crisis is putting that in jeopardy.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxqzgq/climate-change-has-forced-indigenous-peoples-in-kotzebue-alaska-to-pay-dollar99-for-a-turkey

 

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