CURTIS PLEASANT

“You either work or you don’t, that’s the economy here. Fishing is our number one economy here. We sell the fish to tenders, and if the season is good you can get something new for the family, something new for the house. Basic stuff. Rural development would have to be our second. I have been working for two weeks now with RurAL CAP, and happy to be working.” —Curtis Pleasant is Yup’ik from Quinhagak, Alaska.