"A Gwich'in leader from the villages of Beaver and Fort Yukon, she has been at the forefront of the fight against oil and gas in the Yukon Flats. Salmon that once returned each year to spawn in their natal streams along the Yukon's vast tributaries have declined so much that fisheries managers closed all salmon fishing on the Yukon River, a glacier-fed river that has nourished Alaska Native communities with salmon since time immemorial."
"Rooted in Indigenous sovereignty and stewardship, Alaska's grassroots resistance to drilling is a call to imagine a world built on collective care-not extraction. The Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition (FCAC), Native Movement, Stand Up Alaska, Alaska Community Action on Toxics, Northern Alaska Environmental Center, and community members showed up to protest. The wind whipped our hair as we chanted, with banners that read: "Alaska is not for sale" and "Defend the Sacred. Extraction is not our way of life.""
Rochelle Adams, a Gwich'in leader from Beaver and Fort Yukon, last exercised subsistence fishing rights in 2019 and leads resistance to oil and gas development in the Yukon Flats. Salmon returns have declined to the point that fisheries managers closed all salmon fishing on the glacier-fed Yukon River, which has nourished Alaska Native communities for generations. Grassroots groups, including regional environmental and community organizations, rallied outside an energy conference promoting fossil fuel policies, carrying banners that read "Alaska is not for sale" and "Defend the Sacred," centering Indigenous sovereignty and stewardship over extraction.
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