In addition to climate adaptation and cultural preservation, the panel of young leaders stressed the need to address the root causes of outmigration from their traditional homelands.
Cordelia Kellie, Nivi Rosing, Eben Hopson and Qilak Kaludjak participate in a panel on Contemporary Arctic Policy on Thursday in Anchorage.
“How are we also investing in housing so that people can be in communities? Because I think that is one issue that affects all of our Arctic communities,” she said. “Infrastructure, cost of living and housing would be priorities for making sure people can stay on our traditional homelands.” Kellie’s panel included Indigenous fellows and policy advisors from Alaska, Canada and Greenland. In addition to climate adaptation and cultural preservation, the panelists stressed the need to address the root causes of outmigration from their traditional homelands.
“One thing that I would like to see is us young people learning everything we can from our elders before they pass on, because that’s how they were taught,” said Eben Hopson, an Arctic Resilient Communities fellow from Utqiagvik. “That’s how I would like to see us learn hunting and everything else relating to the Arctic.”
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