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Dispossessed, again: climate change hits Native Americans especially hard


 
Christopher Flavelle and Kalen Goodluck, The New York Times 
Published: 28 Jun 2021 11:55 AM BdST
Updated: 28 Jun 2021 11:57 AM BdST
Anna Abraham, the mayor of Chefornak, Alaska, said she grew up hearing stories from elders about how the weather would warm, April 26, 2021. Many Native people were forced into the most undesirable areas of America, first by white settlers, then by the government. Now, parts of that marginal land are becoming uninhabitable. (Ash Adams/The New York Times)
In Chefornak, a Yu’pik village near the western coast of Alaska, the water is getting closer.
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The thick ground, once frozen solid, is thawing. The village preschool, its blue paint peeling, sits precariously on wooden stilts in spongy marsh between a river and a creek. Storms are growing stronger. At high tide these days, water rises under the building, sometimes keeping out the children, ages 3 to 5. The shifting ground has warped the floor, making it ....

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