Laureli Ivanoff
Laureli Ivanoff is an Inupiaq writer and journalist based in Uŋalaqłiq (Unalakleet), on the west coast of what’s now called Alaska. Her column in High Country News, “The Seasons of Uŋalaqłiq”, explores the seasonality of living in direct relationship with the land, water, plants and animals in and around Uŋalaqłiq.
The Abundance of Subsistence
One late-summer day, a day so hot the mosquitoes weren’t flying, my brother and his wife and I traveled nine miles up the Unalakleet River to seine for humpies, or pink salmon. We laughed and hollered while pulling the net to a flat, wide bar made of perfect skipping and throwing stones at the inside…
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