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Landscape between Anchorage and Bethel, Alaska. |
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Village on the Kuskokwim River, upriver from Bethel, Alaska. |
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Orutsararmiut Native Woman fishing in the Kuskokwim River in Bethel, Alaska. Because of the high price of groceries, everything comes in by air or barge, virtually everyone fishes. Primarily salmon. |
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Local fishermen bringing in a catch. The fish are loaded in the iced box in the foreground and immediately shipped by air to Anchorage and the lower 48 States. |
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Fishermen and fisherwoman on the docks on the Kuskokwim River in Bethel, Alaska. |
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Seaplane. The most common form of transportation. |
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Fish drying. EVERYONE does this and then smokes the fish (next picture) and it's the primary food for the local citizens of Bethel, Alaska. |
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Smoking the fish in a smokehouse. |
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Interior of Bethel, Alaska airport. Bethel is the "big city" for hundreds of villages. The common language is Yu'pik. Children don't learn English until they start school. |
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