Watching Over Mountain Village
Snap Judgment
“When you think about Alaska, do you think about the mountains? The way Denali, one of the tallest mountains in the world, cuts through the clouds in the summer? Maybe your parents went on a cruise out there and saw the whales. Maybe you read all those Jack London adventure stories in high school. I’m talking Call of the Wild. Deadliest Catch. You can see Russia from your house!
“This is a wild place. America’s last frontier. But we all know that frontier was built on top of someone else.”
A version of this story was originally produced for KYUK, where it won Best Investigative Reporting (all categories) at Alaska Press Club 2018.