ANITA GRANT

"I am from a big family; there were nine of us. We never went to jail or were picked up. We had good parents. After I clean up my house, I always come sit out here and watch the people passing by. My grandson is upriver checking on our cabin. Hopefully they will see a moose. It’s about five miles up where river bends. In the winter, two people fell through the ice. We never walk on that ice. It doesn’t freeze much, but they didn’t know that. They were sure glad that our cabin didn’t have a regular lock on it, and they said it saved their lives. So we turned it into a shelter cabin." — Anita Grant is Inupiaq and lives in Unalakleet, Alaska.