Gwichyaa Zhee is the Gwich’in name for Fort Yukon. The village sits on the upper Yukon River, 150 miles northeast of Fairbanks. It’s home to less than 500 mostly Gwich’in Athabascan people ...

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The Yukon River bisects Alaska as it flows 2,000 miles from Canada to the Bering Sea. ... Salmon strips dry beside Anastasia Larson at her family’s fish camp in Russian Mission, Alaska.

Yukon river residents are not able to make dry fish from chum and chinook for the year in a row. (Shane Iverson/KYUK) The Yukon River covers a lot of ground on its nearly 2,000 mile journey to the ...

So welcome to the flats, Gwichyaa Zhee also known as Fort Yukon, is a village of less than 500 people on the Upper Yukon River. Kenzie is 20 years old, a student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

EAGLE VILLAGE, Alaska — When Jody Potts-Joseph was growing up, her family mushed sled dogs during the harsh Alaskan winters to hunt and trap, feeding them salmon caught from the Yukon River by ...

AILSA CHANG, HOST: For Alaska Native communities along the Yukon River, salmon fishing has always been a central part of life. But climate change is driving a massive collapse in salmon populations.

Two salmon species have all but disappeared from Alaska's Yukon River this year, ... 38, a member of the Stevens Village tribe who grew up harvesting salmon at her family's fish camp.