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As residents boarded air transports out of Kipnuk, they left what remained of their houses, belongings, and ancestral homeland behind. For many, that list also included their dogs. Nonprofits and individuals have stepped in to reunite pets with displaced families.

Alaska Federation of Natives delegates passed 42 resolutions on Oct, 18, including a call for more federal help for Western Alaska and protections for subsistence practices.

Hundreds have been evacuated in military helicopters and planes to Bethel and Anchorage. Now, state officials are assessing what it'll take to rebuild villages hit hard by the storm.

Climate change forces combine to make the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta especially vulnerable, threatening a region that has sustained Indigenous people for millennia.

Severe erosion in the coastal community has put critical infrastructure in peril and destroyed a vital archaeological lens into the past.

Currently, the city is operating two shelters for evacuees -- one at the Alaska Airlines Center and another at the Egan Center — and expects to host up to 1,600 people.

In the wake of the storm that devastated western Alaska this week, there's been scrutiny of the Trump administration's cancellation of a grant that had been aimed at preventing erosion in Kipnuk, one of the hardest hit communities.

The disaster declaration would unlock federal resources to respond to the Lower Kuskokwim and Lower Yukon regions in Western Alaska, in addition to the Northwest Arctic Borough.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong slammed the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, an area in Western Alaska hundreds of miles from the U.S. road system. More than a thousand people are displaced.

Kipnuk and Kwigillingok residents continued to land in Anchorage on the night of Oct. 16, carrying backpacks and plastic bags filled with their belongings as they exited a military transport plane.