Native Communities in the Wake of the Spill

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Reporter Susan Kernes explores the spill’s impact on the native communities of Chenega Bay and Port Graham. The decline of their marine food supply and the influx of cleanup crews and money after the spill threw the already changing Native community into a state of chaos, from which some residents say the communities may never recover.

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