and there has been a similar decline in the Southeast Alaska villages of Angoon, Kake, Metlakatla and Hydaburg. Donkersloot said residents of Bristol Bay tend to earn the least even though they ...

It was a picture that was repeated in villages all across Alaska. In just a few days nearly 200 people would die from the disease in the Bristol Bay area, leaving dozens of children orphaned.

Bristol Bay is home to only 6,500 people ... If the concern among locals is high, it may be because many of the village elders were raised by orphans of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.

Some villages, Boraas said, practice a baptismal ceremony in Bristol Bay’s waters. Instead of baptizing people in the river, however, they baptize the water itself. “In human terms ...

But, just like some streets in Bristol are seen as much more desirable and in-demand as others, some villages have that great reputation that, weirdly, a similar looking village just down the road ...

A worker with the Pebble Mine project test drills in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska near the village of Iliamma, Alaska. (AP/Al Grillo) The battle lines are being drawn for what is becoming one ...