Acting on behalf of 15 tribal nations, Yup’ik leader Alannah Acaq Hurley led a campaign that stopped the proposed Pebble Mine megaproject in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region.
The seven-minute film focuses on the Southern Resident orcas whose survival, like the survival of Indigenous lifeways in the Pacific Northwest, depends on scha’enexw (the Salmon People).
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