Story 03: Quinn Christopherson
Quinn Christopherson is an Ahtna Athabaskan and Inupiaq singer and songwriter. Quinn became known in 2019 when he won NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest from his submission “Erase Me” recorded at the Anchorage Museum in front of a painting of Mount Denali.
Story 02: Shawna Hotch on building community
Young people are cherished in Klukwan. That’s why Shawna Hotch moved back home to the Jilkáat Kwáan, the people and land of the Chilkat, in Southeast Alaska.
Story 01: Respecting elders means advocacy for Jacki Cleveland
She won’t tell you this, but Jacki Cleveland was raised by her grandpa to do anything a man could do. In Quinhagak, a community of 750 people, located on its own river south of the Kuskokwim, where hunting, fishing and harvesting is central, that’s saying a lot.