Alaska Typhoon Victims’ Losses of Traditional Foods Go Beyond Dollar Values

Alaska typhoon victims’ losses of traditional foods go beyond dollar values

Shea Siegert, senior manager of external affairs at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, and Kelsey Wallace, president of the Alaska Native Heritage Center, examine a bag of frozen salmon heads on Oct. 30, 2025. The bag is part of the collection of wild foods donated to Yukon-Kuskokwim residents displaced by the remants of Typhoon Halong. The fish heads are among the masses of food donated from around the state. Food has been collected in…

The ground is swallowing homes in this Native village in Alaska. Residents have no choice but to move - The Guardian

The ground is swallowing homes in this Native village in Alaska. Residents have no choice but to move  The Guardian Article Attribution

Native Alaska villages were already on the frontlines of climate change. Then a typhoon hit.

A week after Typhoon Halong passed through Japan in early October, its remnants crossed the Pacific and struck western Alaska. Nearly 50 Alaska Native communities across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta near the Bering Sea were met with towering wind speeds, record storm surge, and widespread flooding. At least one person died, and 1,500 adults and children, who were mostly Yup’ik, were displaced from the villages. Initial estimates have reported that …