Ida Nagusavuq Nelson loaded her two young daughters into an SUV. Strollers and suitcases went in the back, smaller totes in the back seat. She also packed two cooler bags full of subsistence foods.
“I have muktuk, dry fish, black meat,” she said. “It’s essentially just whale meat.”
Nelson is from Igiugig in the Bristol Bay region. Last week, she and her daughters were in Anchorage on a brief layover. But she made time to meet up with a family who had evacuated from Kipnuk after the recent devastating storm. Nelson shared some of her harvest with them…