Episode IV–Qacung, Mike Macy
Radio and Podcast Series Episode 4
Nature’s Touch: Climate Change is Here Episode IV. Filmmaker and Journalist Robert Lundahl Interviews Qacung, Stephen Blanchett, and Author, Mike Macy, on this co-incidental moment of interchange. Co-Producer Robin Carneen.
1. Host Robert Lundahl introduction, Qacung Introduction (in Yup’ik language)
2. Introduction, Steven Blanchett, Executive Director of the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council
3. Description of Native lands in Alaska, spec. Bethel area
4. Intertwining stories, Mike Macy, Author, Qacung: Personal observances that are the basis of scientific inquiry
5. Introduction to Yup’ik culture
6. There are no roads in or out of Bethel and no roads in or out of the villages
7. In the winter time you go over the land, that’s when everything opens up
8. Mike Macy: I get up in New Jersey and at 16 years old went to Olympic National Park with the Student Conservation Association.
9. I fell in love with the Olympics
10. I worked over the hill, mostly on the Hoh, which is premium Olympic rainforest
Intercutting of stories continues...
Living conditions and reasons for,
11. Covid–19 in the Yup’ik/Inuit villages of the Y-K Delta and resulting devastation
12. 20 years ago there was a big change. Now the permafrost is gone. There are trees now (in the tundra).
13. Now, Giant Alaska and Yukon Landslides: Macy
14. Importance of the caribou as subsistence and spirit in the Yukon–dependence on subsistence and the environment
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