The highly anticipated annual celebration of Katmai National Park’s most rotund bears kicks off this week; half of the first language speakers of Kodiak Alutiiq died between 2020 and 2022, but that’s not stopping new speakers from learning the language and passing along a distinct culture and worldview to the next generations; and eight candidates in the running to be Alaska’s next governor, senator and U.S. House representative will be in Kodiak early this week for this year’s fisheries debates.
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