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Cousins Viva Johnson (left) and Bernadette Pete harvest celery with instructor Leonardo Sugteng'aq Wassilie at Calypso Farm and Ecology Center, just outside Fairbanks, Alaska. Johnson and Pete can't always get fresh produce in their village of Alakanuk, near the Bering Sea. In August, they participated in an Indigenous-led farmer training program at the farm.
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Sunrise view from the cemetery in Mountain Village, a community in Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, the morning after Drake "Clayton" Wilde's burial. Wilde was only 19 years old when he died by suicide, following a number of local teens who have taken their lives in recent years. Brandon Kapelow hide caption

Bertha and Wilson Twitchell stand outside their home in Kasigluk, Alaska. Wilson grew up here. He drew an image of what the land looked like when he was young: Grass and dry land surrounded the house, stretching at least 80 feet to the riverbank, where he remembers playing with toy boats. Now, when the water is particularly high, the house is nearly an island. Katie Basile for NPR hide caption

Pins are pictured at a display counter during a cultural meeting at the Comanche Nation fairgrounds in Lawton, Okla., on Sept. 30. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Seventeen-year-old Bradley Westlock receives his second COVID-19 vaccine shot. He and other teens in Sitka, Alaska, are eligible now that higher risk populations have already received the vaccination. Katherine Rose/KCAW hide caption

Sarah Lind, a nurse with Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corp., Southwest Alaska's tribal health care provider, vaccinates James Evan in December. They're standing on the tarmac in the village of Napakiak, where Evan works for YKHC at the clinic. Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corp. hide caption

Rising temperatures in Alaska are melting permafrost, widening rivers and eroding homes in the remote village of Newtok, where about a third of residents relocated to higher ground last year. Andrew Burton/Getty Images hide caption

A basketball hoop stands near boats buried in the winter snow. Shishmaref, Alaska, is just a few dozen miles below the Arctic Circle, and in the depths of winter the sun rises close to noon. Zachariah Hughes/Alaska Public Media hide caption

Arctic sea ice is seen from a NASA research aircraft on March 30, 2017, above Greenland. A top Interior Department scientist who tracks Arctic conditions says he was demoted by the Trump administration for speaking out on climate change. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption