Mary Annette Pember
ANCHORAGE — The theme of this year’s Alaska Federation of Natives convention, “Standing Strong, Standing United,” was especially prescient as the state’s Indigenous population joined together to help residents affected by Typhoon Halong.
The villages of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in the western part of Alaska were hardest hit, with over 2,000 displaced by the storm and around 1,000 evacuated by the state’s national guard to locations in Bethel and Anchorage…