SAMUEL ANARUK

“I grew up here. I am Yup’ik. I want to travel the world, but I don’t know how I am going to do that. [Laughs] I am just working here for the time being. I like Bethel, everyone knows everyone, it’s small, you can walk around. I have been working here for a week. Just living. I send demos out, I do music. I don’t know how to describe it, my brother says I sound like a mix of folk and Smashing Pumpkins.” — Samuel Anaruk is Yup’ik and lives in Bethel, Alaska.