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New film documents community resilience in Western Alaska

By Tom Moran | December 11, 2025

A man in camouflage top, large backpack and red hat hold a camera and microphone. He is interviewing an older man in jeans, black down jacket, sunglasses and baseball cap. It is fall and they stand in dead brown grass along a wide river.

A new short film details ways that residents in Western Alaska are responding constructively to changes to their local environment. “Cumikluten (Pay Attention)” is a 36-minute documentary produced by POLARIS,…

Exhibit will highlight human connections to Aleutian Islands

By Lauren Frisch | July 18, 2017

A new traveling exhibit will teach visitors how human communities have relied on the Aleutian Islands as a source of food and protection. “Underwater Forests of the Aleutians” opened at the Museum of the Aleutians in Unalaska in July, and visitors can learn about ecosystems in the coastal environments surrounding the Aleutians and how communities depend on the resources that thrive there.