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KIVALINA, ALASKA -- Monday, Sep...ASKAN TOWN IS LOSING GROUND

KIVALINA, ALASKA -- Monday, September 26, 2022: Flying into Kivalina, Alaska just after sunrise./ASH ADAMS for The New Yorker.

AN ALASKAN TOWN IS LOSING GROUND

KIVALINA, ALASKA -- Tuesday, Se...ASKAN TOWN IS LOSING GROUND

KIVALINA, ALASKA -- Tuesday, September 27, 2022: Aaron Mitchell, 15, harvests a caribou he killed with Joel Swan, 17, on a trip for culture camp let by Clinton Swan. /ASH ADAMS for The New Yorker.

AN ALASKAN TOWN IS LOSING GROUND

Fairbanks, AK -- Tuesday, March...SH ADAMS for The New York Times

Fairbanks, AK -- Tuesday, March 15, 2022: Soldiers of the U.S. Army participate in a series exercises in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times

FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, Marc...SH ADAMS for The New York Times

FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: U.S. Military personnel participate in a series of exercises in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times

FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: U.S. Military personnel in a tactical operations center participate in a series of exercises in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times

FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: Captain Weston Iannone, Commander of Bravo Company, within the 425 Infantry Brigade stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, who is in charge of overseeing a company during a series of exercises the U.S. Army performs in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times

FORT WAINWRIGHT, FAIRBANKS, AK ...SH ADAMS for The New York Times

FORT WAINWRIGHT, FAIRBANKS, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: U.S. Military personnel gather into convoys at a staging area as part of a series of exercises in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times

FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: A soldier rides in a SUSV while participating with the U.S. Military in a series of exercises in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for the New York Times

FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: A loaf of bread is placed near the stove for the night inside a tent for part of the Blackfoot Company in a U.S. Army training exercise eat late at night after a long day./ASH ADAMS for the New York Times

FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: Specialist Joseph Salas of the Blackfoot Company in the U.S. Army mans a Mark 19 Automatic Grenade Launcher during a series of exercises the U.S. Army performed in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times

Fairbanks, AK -- Tuesday, March 15, 2022: Soldiers of the U.S. Army participate in a series exercises in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times

FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: A U.S. Military vehicle departs one of the camp sites utilized during a series of exercises in the Arctic. Getting supplies to and from locations while coping in sub-zero temperatures is a major focus for the company./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times

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DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: Matt Shaefer, Facility Manager of Denali National Park and Preserve, stands on the threatened road site at Pretty Rock. Shaefer says that after just two days of no maintenance, the road has shifted two feet./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: The Robotic Total Station at Pretty Rock collects daa from the many prisms gathering data of the shifting geography of the area./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: David Schirokauer, Science and Resources Team Leader./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: The Robotic Total Station poised just beyond the weak part of the road at Pretty Rock collects daa from the many prisms gathering data of the shifting geography of the area./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: The threatened road site at Pretty Rock in Denali National Park and Preserve. Matt Shaefer, Facility Manager of Denali National Park and Preserve, says that after just two days of no maintenance, the road has shifted two feet./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: Denali National Park and Preserve, as viewed from Pretty Rock./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: Passengers ride one of the many buses in Denali National Park and Preserve./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: Brooke Merrell, Deputy Superintendent of Denali National Park and Preserve./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: One of the many buses in Denali National Park and Preserve drives along the park road. The park road has approximately 140 threatened sites./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

FAIRBANKS, AK -- February 20, 2...ie Buresch./ASH ADAMS for Vogue

FAIRBANKS, AK -- February 20, 2022: Roxy Buresch, 12, and her mother Lonnie Buresch./ASH ADAMS for Vogue

FAIRBANKS, AK -- Sunday, Februa...t her life./ASH ADAMS for Vogue

FAIRBANKS, AK -- Sunday, February 20, 2022: Maureen Mayo, 61. Mayo decided to be traditionally tattooed when she was 58. "I said that I would do it by the time I was 60," she says. Mayo says that for her, the tattoos represent healing, spirituality, and a connection to her culture. "They represent being who I am." She said that her mother had told her stories about women doing the practice and that had stuck with her throughout her life./ASH ADAMS for Vogue

FAIRBANKS, AK -- Sunday, Februa... her hand.//ASH ADAMS for Vogue

FAIRBANKS, AK -- Sunday, February 20, 2022: Jaida Attla holds her son, Saint Maikoa Isaac Attla, 4 months old, after Jody Potts-Joseph traditionally tattoos her hand.//ASH ADAMS for Vogue

FAIRBANKS, AK -- Sunday, Februa...Jae Pitka. /ASH ADAMS for Vogue

FAIRBANKS, AK -- Sunday, February 20, 2022: Jody Potts-Joseph tattoos her niece, Jae Pitka. /ASH ADAMS for Vogue

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Tuesday, A...SH ADAMS for The New York Times

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Tuesday, April 12, 2022: Senator Lisa Murkowski stands for a portrait in the Anchorage Museum after speaking with attendees of the Alaska Climate Youth Summit./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Monday, Ap...SH ADAMS for The New York Times

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Monday, April 11, 2022: U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka speaks at a campaign event at Great Alakka Pizza Co./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Monday, April 11, 2022: A crowd listens as U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka speaks at a campaign event at Great Alakka Pizza Co./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Saturday, ...SH ADAMS For the New York Times

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Saturday, July 9, 2022: Former President Donald Trump speaks at his Save America rally inside the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage, Alaska. The arena's capacity is 5,000, so people began lining up between 5 and 6 a.m., while others paid $250 each to skip to expedited admission and secure their spot inside./ASH ADAMS For the New York Times

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Saturday, July 9, 2022: Crowds wait outside the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage, Alaska to attend Former President Donald Trump's Save America rally. The arena's capacity is 5,000, so people began lining up between 5 and 6 a.m., while others paid $250 each to skip to expedited admission and secure their spot inside./ASH ADAMS For the New York Times

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Saturday, July 9, 2022: Christena Kincaid from Flint, Michigan at Former President Donald Trump's Save America rally inside the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage, Alaska. Kincaid says that this is "only her seventh" Trump rally. /ASH ADAMS For the New York Times

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Saturday, July 9, 2022: Crowds attend Former President Donald Trump's Save America rally inside the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage, Alaska. The arena's capacity is 5,000, so people began lining up between 5 and 6 a.m., while others paid $250 each to skip to expedited admission and secure their spot inside./ASH ADAMS For the New York Times

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Saturday, July 9, 2022: Crowds gather at Former President Donald Trump's Save America rally inside the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage, Alaska. The arena's capacity is 5,000, so people began lining up between 5 and 6 a.m., while others paid $250 each to skip to expedited admission and secure their spot inside./ASH ADAMS For the New York Times

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Saturday, July 9, 2022: Former Governor Sarah Palin speaks at Former President Donald Trump's Save America rally inside the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage, Alaska. The arena's capacity is 5,000, so people began lining up between 5 and 6 a.m., while others paid $250 each to skip to expedited admission and secure their spot inside./ASH ADAMS For the New York Times

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Saturday, July 9, 2022: Former President Donald Trump speaks at his Save America rally inside the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage, Alaska. The arena's capacity is 5,000, so people began lining up between 5 and 6 a.m., while others paid $250 each to skip to expedited admission and secure their spot inside./ASH ADAMS For the New York Times

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday,...SH ADAMS for The New York Times

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Maleika Jones and Gregory Shuaib, in their home./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Maleika Jones watches as Saaima Sadiq adds a tomato based to the biryani./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: A prayer hangs at the Islamic Community Center of Anchorage. /ASH ADAMS for The New York Times

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Maleika Jones holds the marinated lamb she and Sadiq will use to make biryani./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Saaima Sadiq shows Maleika how much coloring to add to the biryani before allowing it to finish cooking./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Maleika Jones places finished dishes on her table./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Chicken chickpea curry./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times

STEVENS VILLAGE, AK -- Tuesday,...sh Adams for The New York Times

STEVENS VILLAGE, AK -- Tuesday, August 3, 2021: Stevens Village Chief David Kriska with his wife, Cheryl Kriska, and children (from left) Brady Anarose Kriska, 4, Edison Lillian Kriska, 2, and Walter Andrew Maillelle, 10, outside of their home./Ash Adams for The New York Times

STEVENS VILLAGE, AK -- Tuesday, August 3, 2021: Chief PJ Simon, Chief and Chairman for Tanana Chiefs Conference in Stevens Village on the bank of the Yukon River. The Tanana Chiefs Conference held its subregional meeting in Stevens Village this summer, bringing together leaders from several communities for two days of meetings and celebration./Ash Adams for The New York Times

STEVENS VILLAGE, AK -- Tuesday, August 3, 2021: The Yukon River./Ash Adams for The New York Times

YUKON RIVER, AK -- Wednesday Au...sh Adams for The New York Times

YUKON RIVER, AK -- Wednesday August 4, 2021: Darrell Kriska checks on fish hanging at his fish camp on the Yukon River, about a one-hour boatride from his home in Stevens Village. Kriska says that in years past, all of the racks and beams would be covered with salmon. Kriska says he fished for his family and his extended family this year, but that it takes much longer to get far less fish than the family is used to, due in part by the low salmon run this year and regulations that have changed the size of the nets allowed for subsistsence fishing. Kriska, who makes all of his nets himself, made a 4-inch net this year to fish with per regulations./Ash Adams for The New York Times

YUKON RIVER, AK -- Wednesday August 4, 2021: Darrell Kriska boards his boat at his fish camp on the Yukon River, about a one-hour boatride from his home in Stevens Village, before heading home after checking on the salmon that's hanging on the racks and feeding his dog, Maggie, who watches te camp while he is gone. Kriska says he fished for his family and his extended family this year, but that it takes much longer to get far less fish than the family is used to, due in part by the low salmon run this year and regulations that have changed the size of the nets allowed for subsistsence fishing. Kriska, who makes all of his nets himself, made a 4-inch net this year to fish with per regulations. Kriska works in construction, building homes, including the structures on his properties./Ash Adams for The New York Times

ANCHORAGE, AK --Wednesday, Octo...H ADAMS for The Washington Post

ANCHORAGE, AK --Wednesday, Octobr 20, 2021: Cynthia Ivan (right) with her girlfriend, Lulu Demantle, who is also, like Ivan, originally from Akiak./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

ANCHORAGE, AK --Wednesday, Octobr 20, 2021: Bethel, Alaska, the hub village in the Yukon-Kuskokwim region where Ivan lived./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, ...H ADAMS for The Washington Post

PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: The view from the living room of Thecla and Norman Xavier's home in Pilot Station. The family could see the clinic where their son was dying of Covid-19 and their daughter was struggling with complications as well, but they couldn't be there until the end. Due to the volatile fall weather, the medivac wasn't able to land in Pilot Station until the day after Joseph Xavier died from Covid-19 in the clinic, at whiich time it picked up Joseph's sister, Natasia Xavier. Nastasia was then in a coma for twenty-one days in Seattle./ ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: Thecla Xavier looks out the window in her home while Norman Xavier, diagnosed wiith dementia, rests on the couch. After the death of their son Joseph Xavier in 2020, the family says that Norman stopped speaking. He was later diagnosed with dementia./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: Thecla Xavier stands in the bedroom of her late son Joseph Xavier. "You can feel something in here," she says./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: Nastasia Xavier, the sister of the late Joesph Xavier, displays a photograph on her phone from last winter, when she was in a coma from Covid-19. Xavier was in a coma for 21 days and is still dealing with complications from the disease. She just returned from heart surgery last month, she says./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: Nastasia Xavier was in a coma for 21 days in the winter of 2020, a complication of Covid-19. While she was in a coma, she needed to be intubated through incisions in her neck./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: Joseph Xavier's grave in the cemetery in Pilot Station./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: A cross hangs from Thecla Xavier's four-wheeler in Pilot Station. She says she put it there to keep away the bears./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

ANCHORAGE, AK -- Thursday, June...H ADAMS for The Washington Post

ANCHORAGE, AK -- Thursday, June 2, 2022: Cars drive down Minnesota to and from downtown Anchorage./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

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ANCHORAGE, AK -- Thursday, May 12, 2022: Nick Begich, photographed at the Resource Industry Trade Organizations Host Congressional Candidate Forum./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

ANCHORAGE, AK -- Thursday, May 12, 2022: Mary Peltola, photographed at the Resource Industry Trade Organizations Host Congressional Candidate Forum./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

ANCHORAGE, AK -- Thursday, June 2, 2022: Anchorage Baptist Temple, the church where the late Congressman Don Young's services were held this spring./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

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ANCHORAGE, AK -- Wednesday, June 1, 2022: A person sits in a chair along the coastal trail near Point Woronzof, a popular place to watch planes fly out of the city./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post

PALMER, ALASKA -- Saturday, Aug...ka./ASH ADAMS for The Atlantic

PALMER, ALASKA -- Saturday, August 27, 2022: People wait in line at a dessert stand at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer, Alaska./ASH ADAMS for The Atlantic

PALMER, ALASKA -- Saturday, Aug...oon./ASH ADAMS for The Atlantic

PALMER, ALASKA -- Saturday, August 27, 2022: Frank Koloski, of Rodeo Alaska eats roasted corn on the cob at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer Alaska. Koloski worked the rodeo that took place early in the afternoon./ASH ADAMS for The Atlantic

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PALMER, ALASKA -- Saturday, August 27, 2022: Children pet a pig at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer, Alaska./ASH ADAMS for The Atlantic

PALMER, ALASKA -- Saturday, August 27, 2022: People walk by the carousel at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer, Alaska./ASH ADAMS for The Atlantic

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PALMER, ALASKA -- Saturday, August 27, 2022: Sara Flores, 20, carries candied apples at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer Alaska. Flores has worked at the fair for four years and says that she does "a bit of everything."/ASH ADAMS for The Atlantic

PALMER, ALASKA -- Saturday, August 27, 2022: A cow nurses a calf at the State Fair in Palmer, Alaska./ASH ADAMS for The Atlantic

PALMER, ALASKA -- Saturday, August 27, 2022: A boy climbs out of one of the agricultural pens at the State Fair in Palmer, Alaska./ASH ADAMS for The Atlantic

JUNEAU, ALASKA -- Sunday, June ...hs before./ ASH ADAMS for Eater

JUNEAU, ALASKA -- Sunday, June 26, 2022: Kendri Cesar, wearing her dad's shirt at the Mestizo picnic that also was a memorial for Marcelo Quinto's wife, who died two months before./ ASH ADAMS for Eater

JUNEAU, ALASKA -- Sunday, June ... head soup./ASH ADAMS for Eater

JUNEAU, ALASKA -- Sunday, June 26, 2022: In addition to his adobo, Marcelo Quinto brought herring eggs and fish head soup to the Mestizo party and his late wife's memorial, who died two months before. "These are from my other side," Quinto says of the herring eggs and fish head soup./ASH ADAMS for Eater

JUNEAU, ALASKA -- Monday, June ...the flavor./ASH ADAMS for Eater

JUNEAU, ALASKA -- Monday, June 27, 2022: Robert Paulo, elder of the Douglas Indian Association, in Juneau, wher ehe was born and raised. Paulo is Tlingit-Filipino and says that in his community, "everyone cooks," and describes the competitive nature of homecooking. "Everyone has a different way to make adobo," he says. Paulo says that when he was young, his father told him that there was no way to make the same adobo recipe twice--that the history and state of every ingredient altered the flavor./ASH ADAMS for Eater

JUNEAU, ALASKA -- Monday, June ...pork adobo./ASH ADAMS for Eater

JUNEAU, ALASKA -- Monday, June 27, 2022: Of all the places to purchase prepared adobo in Juneau, Robert Paulo, elder of the Douglas Indian Association, says that the kitchen at Foodland makes his favorite pork adobo./ASH ADAMS for Eater

JUNEAU, ALASKA -- Monday, June 27, 2022: Paulo holds chicken and pork adobo with rice at Foodland in Juneau. Of all the places to purchase prepared adobo in Juneau, Robert Paulo, elder of the Douglas Indian Association, says that the kitchen at Foodland makes his favorite pork adobo./ASH ADAMS for Eater

JUNEAU, ALASKA -- Monday, June ...;s cousins./ASH ADAMS for Eater

JUNEAU, ALASKA -- Monday, June 27, 2022: Pork belly at Carillo's, one of several food carts that sells Filipino street food in Juneau. Carillo's is owned by one of Paulo's cousins./ASH ADAMS for Eater

JUNEAU, ALASKA -- Monday, June ...nd lumpia. /ASH ADAMS for Eater

JUNEAU, ALASKA -- Monday, June 27, 2022: Ray Jose, one of the owners of the Valley Restaurant in Juneau, a diner, which serves traditional American fare but also Filipino foods like adobo and lumpia. /ASH ADAMS for Eater

JUNEAU, ALASKA -- Monday, June 27, 2022: Paulo eats the adobo mixed--half pork, half chicken--at the Valley Restaurant in Juneau, a diner, which serves traditional American fare but also Filipino foods like adobo and lumpia. /ASH ADAMS for Eater

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