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A Chugiak High freshman biology class butchered a moose recently after their teacher used a cultural education permit to harvest the animal.

Subsistence fishing is being threatened and some Alaskans in rural parts of the state are facing all in an effort feed their families.

Talk about seeing the forest for the trees. When Jingnan Peng, a multimedia reporter as well as regular producer of this show, caught wind of a forest-planting project near our Boston base, he grabbed his video camera and a drone. The story he ended up filming: that of Maya Dutta, whose work with Biodiversity for a Livable Climate has her creating Miyawaki forests. For this episode – partly an encore of one in which Jing described his approach to videography – Jing spoke to host Clay Collins about how he found this story, why it’s a natural Monitor piece, and how it fits his oeuvre.

On March 24, GSCIA released their first product — a Gwich’in alphabet book. The book contains the entire alphabet and 72 words for people to learn.

A new alphabet book for Gwich’in has been published and is available as a free download to language learners. It is part of a long-term community-led project of language revitalization. A worksession last weekend with first-language speakers recorded new pieces for a permanent database.