The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of the world’s last untouched wild places. Now, much like public lands across the Southwest, it’s facing the greatest threats in decades. Members of the Gwich’in Nation, who […]
FAIRBANKS, AK — A group of Alaska Natives are in the Southwest this week. They’re stoking opposition to a bill that would authorize oil and gas drilling in their homeland, including parts of the Arctic […]
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of the world’s last untouched wild places. Now, much like public lands across the Southwest, it’s facing the greatest threats in decades. Members of the Gwich’in Nation, who […]
Members of the Gwich’in Nation traveled from communities in the U.S. and Canada to Arizona to ask for support in the ongoing fight to protect the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. James […]
Members of the Gwich’in Nation, who have relied on the Arctic refuge for survival for millenia, are traveling from the Arctic across the desert Southwest to raise the alarm. The group will traverse four states in just over a week, showing the new Patagonia film The Refuge, and finding common ground with communities that depend on public lands.
In the words of Gwich’in elder Jonathon Solomon of Fort Yukon, Alaska, "It is our belief that the future of the Gwich’in and the future of the Caribou are the same. Harm to the Porcupine Caribou Herd is harm to the Gwich’in culture and millennia-old way of life."— Jonathon Solomon