Elia Ansaknok was reported missing on the Chena River in downtown Fairbanks Friday, with Robert Peter reported overdue to Fort Yukon Saturday.
A boat helping with the search for Elia Ansaknok’s body drags the Chena River in downtown Fairbanks on Sunday.
With prayers and Gwich’in singing, the family of Elia Ansaknok gathered Sunday morning to resume searching for his body in the Chena River. Elia’s uncle, David Solomon of Copper Center led family members in song, as Fairbanks police and Alaska State Troopers launched three boats yesterday at Graehl Landing to dredge the river below the pedestrian bridge where Ansaknok went into the river.
Ansaknok’s family, including some who traveled in from Fort Yukon and elsewhere around the region, have been standing vigil under canopies in the park at Graehl Landing. This is the second tragedy for the Ansaknok family in two months; on June 17, Andrew Ansaknok drowned in the Yukon River at Fort Yukon.troopers were notified Saturday that Robert Peter was overdue traveling from Circle to Fort Yukon.
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