Alaska’s Yukon River residents say a new pact with Canada leaves them behind

Alaska’s Yukon River residents say a new pact with Canada leaves them behind

By Olivia Ebertz Bathsheba Demuth

Source: newsfromthestates

3/18/2024

Credit: Bathsheba Demuth for Northern Journal

This reporting was supported by a Carnegie Foundation Fellowship.

Writers Olivia Ebertz and Bathsheba Demuth boated more than 1,000 miles up and down the Yukon River last summer, hearing the stories and perspective of residents and Tribal leaders along the way.

ALONG THE YUKON RIVER — The midsummer air is hot after a long day of sun and stillness in the middle river village of Grayling, and the cutbanks seem to slouch closer toward the Yukon River below. Rachel Freireich says her mother moved here permanently from the Athabaskan village of Holikachuk, up a nearby tributary, in the 1960s to be closer to schools and salmon eddies.

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