From Sivuqaq’s Shores in Alaska to the UN: The Fight for Military Cleanup & Indigenous Rights
Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy 2026-01-08
Summary:
“It was so beautiful. Little did we know it was so toxic”, declared Karen (Pungowiyi) Nguyen, a former Indigenous resident of Sivuqaq Island (more commonly known as St. Lawrence Island) in the Northern Bering Sea, when we interviewed her in Alaska in early 2024. She recalled how, as children at the Northeast Cape on Sivuqaq, …