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Hooper Bay

  • Sunrise view from the cemetery in Mountain Village, the morning after Drake “Clayton” Wilde’s burial. Clayton was only 19 years old when he died by suicide, joining several local teens to have taken their lives in recent years.
    Health
    Suicide prevention program finds strength in Yup’ik cultural roots
    Brandon Kapelow
    For decades, the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta has been home to the nation’s highest rates of suicide. In the 1980s, the backlash to a Pulitzer Prize-winning series helped prompt decades of work from Indigenous leaders to build innovative prevention programs from within the region focused on community strengths.