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The typhoon that hit more than 1,000 miles of Alaska coastline in late September didn\u2019t just damage buildings but disrupted generational ways of living for years to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA majority of our fish camps are toast,\u201d said Bertha Koweluk, pastor of Nome Community United Methodist Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That includes the fish camp that has been in Koweluk\u2019s family for at least four generations, if not more, as proud I\u00f1upiaq people. Her family, and plenty of others, lost all of their meat for the year when the storms and flooding knocked out their cabin, fish racks and even a cellar for the Koweluks, which contained four buckets of seal (black) meat.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Bertha Koweluk, pastor at Nome Community UMC, processing the seal (black) meat at her family’s fish camp, which was destroyed in September’s typhoon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great loss,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s where our boys and daughters learned how to put stuff away. It\u2019s where my husband went to center his heart and get time away. There are so many things that go with our camps.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rev. Daniel Wilcox, pastor at Wasilla Christ First UMC and Palmer Fellowship, serves as the Alaska Conference of The UMC Disaster Response Coordinator. He is also temporarily helping coordinate activities of the Alaska chapter of Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (VOAD). The logistics of coordinating disaster response in remote places of Alaska is quite challenging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCurrently, the greatest identified need is doing basic emergency repairs on 105 homes in a number of villages to allow families to stay there for the winter,\u201d Wilcox said. \u201cTwo of those villages, Hooper Bay and Chevak, represent nearly one-third of those homes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are 22 villages in an area covering 1,000 miles of coastline that sustained damage, the majority of which was from both wind and sustained storm surge. There is no estimate yet on the number of fish camps lost. In addition to floods, the storms left behind salt deposits, which gets absorbed into the ground and kills crops such as berries that both humans and animals subsist on. Wilcox said there is no way of knowing how many years it will take those crops to recover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilcox is working with Pacific Northwest Conference Disaster Response Coordinators to bring in two highly trained members of their Early Response Team (ERT) to begin doing damage assessments and help identify tools and supplies that will be needed. He is also hosting an ERT training at Anchor Park UMC in Anchorage on October 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other complicating factor in the response is the remoteness of these communities and the changing weather, Wilcox said. Some villages may only be 10 miles apart, by map, but it takes either a boat or plane to get into these villages.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This photo is of Grandma Polly and Wilson, some of the many Koweluk family members who have supplied their family with tradition, memories and food over the years at this fish camp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Supplies often must be shipped in by boat or plane and those shipments typically slow down or stop in mid-October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe then hope to schedule teams to do these repairs before the end of October or early November,\u201d Wilcox said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been coordinating with the state and FEMA to deal with logistics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nome experienced some damage, but work is underway right now to fix roads, rock walls and the bridge that goes out to the fish camps, Koweluk said. It is typical for Nome to experience a storm once a year, but she said it has never been quite this damaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No logistics can fix the significant loss of meat for the local fish camps. Koweluk said she and her husband both have jobs, so they can afford to go to the grocery store this season to buy their meat. Still, they worked hard and spent many hours processing their fish and seal meat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot having our four buckets of black meat is so devastating to me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In several villages, there are subsistence fishers and hunters \u2013 meaning they live off the land \u2013 eating the fish they catch and the local berries and wildlife they harvest each year. It is not as easy as \u201cjust rebuilding,” Koweluk said, as families must go through an application process to acquire the land where they set up camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It isn\u2019t just about feeding their bellies. For the I\u00f1upiaq, food is a connection to ancestors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt feeds every part of our being,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Koweluk children and grandchildren enjoyed birthday parties at their fish camp and learning about their culture as I\u00f1upiaq people. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The loss cuts deeper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Koweluk cannot recall many stories of her family\u2019s joy and peace that isn\u2019t intertwined with their fish camp. At least four generations of her family have called it their gathering space and she has cherished photos of her husband\u2019s mother, her husband\u2019s aunt, her children and now her children\u2019s children fishing, playing in their boat, processing fish with their grandmother or just laying on the ground in blankets watching the sun set to the west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s where you were taught to be a man in our way of being. It\u2019s where we were taught to live off the land. You picture your grandkids and great grandkids playing there,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had so much loss as a people, we don\u2019t know how to react.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s where their stories have been told. It\u2019s where their stories belong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a part of your soul,\u201d Koweluk said. \u201cIt\u2019s more than a home. It\u2019s way more than a home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HOW TO HELP<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

DONATE to the Alaska Disaster Response Fund<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GET INVOLVED with Disaster Preparedness + Response<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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