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The Arctic dilemma: a perfect storm of environmental changes is transforming Native Alaskan food gathering and culture.
When crude oil flowed from the punctured Exxon Valdez supertanker in 1989, residents of the Native Alaskan villages in the spill's path halted their harvests of local foods like salmon, herring, shellfish and seals. It was supposed to have been temporary.
But 16 years later, what Alaskans refer to as "subsistence" activities--the traditional gathering of fish, game and plants for personal and cultural use--remain diminished in the mostly Alutiiq Eskimo villages affected by the oil disaster.
There is an explanation for the downbeat trend, said Patty Brown-Schwalenberg, executive director of the nonprofit Chugach Regional Resources Commission. "During the ...
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