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November 12, 2025

Crews are working to fix Alaska Native villages devastated by flooding. But will residents return?

  • Some who evacuated to Anchorage say they don't think they will ever go back to their traditional way of life.
    • By MARK THIESSEN, GENE JOHNSON and BECKY BOHRER
    Associated Press

    AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson [enlarge]
    Harry Friend walks among debris caused by the remnants of Typhoon Halong hitting the village last month in Kwigillingok, Alaska.

    KWIGILLINGOK, Alaska — Darrel John watched the final evacuees depart his village on the western coast of Alaska in helicopters and small planes and walked home, avoiding the debris piled on the boardwalks over the swampy land.


     
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