Dozens of representatives across Alaska spoke at a forum to express concerns about subsistence food access and rights.
Climate change poses threats to subsistence practices across Alaska, particularly affecting Alaska Native communities who have relied on the land for food for millennia. Subsistence concerns were a major topic of discussion at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention on Friday.
May spoke at a forum at the convention, where people from all over Alaska spoke about their concerns for salmon, caribou, whales, berries, and other subsistence food sources. “All of us here are related and connected through salmon,” said Charles Wright, from Rampart. “It’s dear to all of our elders, mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing of all of our people.”
That contradicts the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, or ANILCA, that gives rural residents preference during restrictions. The Alaska Constitution mandates resource access for all Alaskans.
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