FRONTLINE and the Howard Center at ASU go inside Alaska Native villages that are fighting for survival against climate change and examine why communities are relocating and struggling to preserve their traditions.
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Researchers have found that parts of Alaska are warming at up to four times the rate of most of the rest of the world. That trend has left some Alaska Native villages fighting for their survival and even facing relocation. “Alaska’s Vanishing Native Villages†examines how these remote coastal communities are navigating flooding, erosion, warming temperatures, and bureaucratic challenges.
The documentary features interviews with residents and local leaders about the challenges they face, including tough decisions around preserving their way of life, which relies on harvesting foods from the sea and the land that aren’t sold in stores, and the prospect of relocating.
“Our ancestors said one day we will come upon this day,†Agatha Napoleon, climate change coordinator for the Native Village of Paimiut, a tribe that is proposing to relocate its people to higher ground, says in the documentary. “I didn’t think it would happen in my lifetime.â€
“Alaska’s Vanishing Native Villages†is a FRONTLINE production with Five O’Clock Films. The correspondent, writer, producer and director is Patty Talahongva. The producer is Lauren Mucciolo. The co-producer is Belén Tavares. The senior producer is Frank Koughan. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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00:00 – Prologue
00:36 – The Aftermath of a 2022 Storm in Remote Alaskan Communities
02:50 – How Climate Change Threats Are Forcing Residents of Alaska’s Hooper Bay To Consider Relocation
06:37 – Alaska Native Communities’ Past and Present Struggles With Relocation & Preserving Traditions
18:37 – How the Alaska Native Town of Kotzebue Is Fortifying Its Defenses Against Climate Change
22:19 – How Hooper Bay Residents Are Coping With Extreme Weather Events
27:06 – Credits
All I see from these so call proud native looking for govt hand out. It 2025 how about some individual responsibility and do better. American native is not the only people that struggle in this world. Move and adapt with progress or die complaining. Seem natives like the latter.
Even the Neanderthal millions of years ago know to migrate to better land. Maybe time for these people to migrate and stop trying to complain about climate changes and waste bunch of unnecessary money.
A callous, self-serving leader we are living under ;-(
Seems Trump wnats to punish, literally punish Democrats and those that vote Democrat .The worst storm is Trump storm .
This is the government's way of saying they don't care.
Ok now have white and black Native Alaskans as well keep mixing idios…..
Didn't they just get hit by another big storm last week?
I understand what you're saying, dear.n But if people mind their own business, it wouldn't be so bad in this world. If you pay attention to.
The world and the things that are happening.
Yes, something won't be able to fix. A lot of peoples will pass away more events.
And what's gonna happen to all those peoples Don't have a home.
They'll get sick and if you are old.
9 timends are alive.
You won't make it. And people that live in big cities you need to spray it out.Go in the country, especially if you have a car Maybe two car Pollution, you have a thought about that.Even though i'm changing the subjecthat is that is a health problem
Insane that this came into my recommended after another typhoon 🌀 hit Alaska. Before this year, I didn't even know 💠Alaska go typhoons 🥺🥺😱🫣!!
Thank you!
And now Kipnuk and the others are gone in western AK.
My prayers to all the Native tribes that are facing relocation.God bless you all!ðŸ™â¤ï¸ðŸ™â¤ï¸ðŸ™â¤ï¸ðŸ™â¤ï¸ðŸ™â¤ï¸ðŸ™
Perhaps the could help this problem by giving back the money she siphoned from the state govt while in office.
Alaskan native culture is western culture too😊
You guys could split that fat one, she's got enough blubber to carry you through a couple seasons or send her back to arizona, but then you have shipping costs, we'll the government will. might be able to load it on a C130 transport but look at the blubber you lose
Tree huggers climate change BS, join the rest of the world and quit asking the government to pay you for everything
You mean people, planes, red cross came to help ? Probably fema too. Good thing Biden isn't f**king president huh ?
I am back here after seeing the recent disaster in Alaska
All these aid programs canceled, all these federal employees fired SO where is the money going and gone to? where are them billions right now? Where !!?
Alaska's Vanishing Native Villages inhabitants migrated there from as far as Eurasia for a better life.