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  • Dillingham, Alaska<br />
Oct. 26, 2017<br />
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Dillingham commercial fishermen: (left to right) Grant Williams (17), Drew Wassily (16), Dillon Chaney (16), Joseph Wassily-Walker (15), Bobby Nicholson (17), William Christopher Williams (17)<br />
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"My grandfather fished, my great-grandfather fished, and I want to fish, I want my kids to fish, my grandchildren to fish. I want fishing to keep on happening." – Dillon Chaney, Commercial Fisherman, Dillingham, Alaska
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  • Dillingham, Alaska<br />
Oct. 26, 2017<br />
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"I want people to know the threat now is probably greater than it was prior to the EPA coming out with the Watershed Assessment and the restrictions, with this administration and where it's heading." – Robert Heyano, President of United Tribes of Bristol Bay
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  • Ekwok, Alaska<br />
Oct. 25, 2017<br />
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Ekwok Alaska is located on the Nushagak River midway between the proposed Pebble Mine site and Bristol Bay, and has a population of about 100 people, most of whom do not support developing the mine.
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  • Dillingham, Alaska<br />
Oct. 26, 2017<br />
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Sockeye, or "red" salmon from Bristol Bay is commercially valuable around the world and a mainstay for people who live in the Bristol Bay region.
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  • Dillingham, Alaska<br />
Oct. 24, 2017<br />
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“I know now that if I die tomorrow, that the people of Bristol Bay, the younger people of Bristol Bay will stand up and take them on.” — Robin Samuelson, Member Chief of Curyung Tribe and Chairman of Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation
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  • Ekwok, Alaska<br />
Oct. 25, 2017<br />
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“Whether it’s small, large, it doesn’t matter the size. It’s still going to contaminate our wetlands.”<br />
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“Without our subsistence, we’d be starving. I’d say 75 percent of our subsistence is fish.” — Crystal Jensen, City Manager of Ekwok
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  • Dillingham, Alaska<br />
Oct. 26, 2017<br />
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One way that some Bristol Bay residents have been resisting the development of the Pebble Mine is through art – wooden fish with sayings about protecting land, water, and fish decorate a wall of a downtown building in Dillingham.
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  • Ekwok, Alaska<br />
Oct. 25, 2017<br />
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"If you want clean water, you do not want this thing, because they're going to dig it and then they are going to leave it and we're going to be stuck with it. And these people here, they live off the fish, they live off the moose, the caribou. And those rich people, they can't understand that. These guys are just in it for the buck. You can dress it anyway you want, but that's the truth." – Richard King, Ekwok Village Council Administrator/Fishing Lodge Owner, Ekwok, Alaska
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  • Ekwok, Alaska<br />
Oct. 25, 2017<br />
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"We're just worried about the toxins that would eventually get into the rivers or the streams. Our main source of food is fish and I think as soon as we get some toxins in there, it's going to kill off the smolts and the eggs." – Fred Tom Hurley Jr., Landfill Operator/Solid Waste Manager, Ekwok, Alaska
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  • Dillingham, Alaska<br />
Oct. 26, 2017<br />
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Sockeye, or "red" salmon, from Bristol Bay is commercially valuable around the world and a mainstay for people who live in the Bristol Bay region.
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  • New Stuyahok, Alaska<br />
Oct. 26, 2017<br />
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The village of New Stuyahok is located midway between the proposed Pebble Mine site and Bristol Bay, and has a population of about 600 people, most of whom do not support developing the mine.
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  • Dillingham, Alaska<br />
Oct. 26, 2017<br />
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"The Clean Water Act is there for a reason. It's a viable law and it is meant to protect areas just like Bristol Bay. Bristol Bay is unique to Alaska, to our country, to this hemisphere, and to the world. It's the home of the last, great wild sockeye fishery. There are not very many environments left like this, especially in the industrialized world. The Clean Water Act is meant to protect regions like Bristol Bay." – Robyn Chaney, Dillingham, Alaska
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  • New Stuyahok, Alaska<br />
Oct. 26, 2017<br />
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"Before you know it, one small mine, it starts the rest of them to follow. They'll be breaking the trail. So, I don't feel comfortable about them getting started up. I'd rather be doing the same things that I have been doing, from our clean land and our clean water, especially the clean water." –	Wassillie Andrews, New Stuyahok Traditional Council President, New Stuyahok, Alaska
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  • Dillingham, Alaska<br />
Oct. 26, 2017<br />
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"The Clean Water Act is there for a reason. It's a viable law, and it is meant to protect areas just like Bristol Bay. Bristol Bay is unique to Alaska, to our country, to this hemisphere, and to the world. It's the home of the last, great wild sockeye fishery. There are not very many environments left like this, especially in the industrialized world. The Clean Water Act is meant to protect regions like Bristol Bay."<br />
– Robyn Chaney, Dillingham, Alaska
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  • Anchorage, AK<br />
Nov. 10, 2017<br />
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“There are going to be high levels of risk. You’re going to affect water flow, you’re going to affect water temperature, you’re going to affect turbidity — all of those natural occurrences that allow salmon to continue doing what they have so successfully done in Bristol Bay.”<br />
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“This is the equivalent of pushing the Lakota out of the Black Hills to mine for gold. This is the equivalent of pushing the Plains Indians out, killing off all the buffalo.” — Matt Newman, Attorney for the Native American Rights Fund, photographed in his office in Anchorage, Alaska.
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