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“How women live in Chukotka: Four Stories” for National Geographic Russia

“How women live in Chukotka: Four Stories” for National Geographic Russia

Meet the North wrote this story for National Geographic Russia. With each new border and political shift, the indigenous women of Chukotka, Russia adjust to maintain their heritage and survive. Read about how they survive through Jenny’s words and Eric’s photos. This story appeared both on-line and in the printed magazine in Russia in February,…

A fading culture adapts to the changing times in this Arctic town

A fading culture adapts to the changing times in this Arctic town

We were eating more than I thought possible, including jellied whale casserole and fresh apricot buns, while Elizaveta Dobrieva’s family explained that their ancestors descended from the polar bear and the killer whale. Then Elizaveta disappeared into the back room of her apartment in Lavrentiya, Chukotka, and came back cradling a dark wooden carving. Its…

“A fading culture adapts to the changing times in this Arctic town” for National Geographic.

“A fading culture adapts to the changing times in this Arctic town” for National Geographic.

Here is Meet the North’s next National Geographic story. With each new border and political shift, the indigenous women of Chukotka, Russia adjust to maintain their heritage and survive. Read about how they survive through Jenny’s words and Eric’s photos.

Here’s how people live in the Arctic

Here’s how people live in the Arctic

Since early 2015, I’ve been traveling to communities all over the Arctic with photographer Eric Guth. Our mission is to learn about the north from the people who live here. Across Iceland, Greenland, Nunavut, and Alaska, we ask the people we meet for recommendations about whom to meet next. Our job is to listen and to follow their lead, relying on chance…

Feast together

Feast together

It’s a good time to feast together, whether it’s Easter or Passover or Spring (or Fall!). Here we are sharing tea, fresh bread, salmon roe, marinated salmon, wild mushrooms, fresh lingonberry and pine nut cake (my fave), and plenty of butter. . This is Novoye Chaplino, a Yupik village in Russia’s Far East. We are…