"Cumikluten (Pay Attention)", is a 35-minute documentary featuring the work of POLARIS researchers and community members in Chevak and Dillingham, Alaska. Davin Holen, a WAGE Project Leader and the Chair of our Training Commission, as a member of POLARIS team, participated in the film and is interviewed in it.
To watch the movie on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzOJIdlVfHw
For more information on Polaris and the documentary: https://arcticpolaris.org/films
"From 2020–2025, POLARIS, a cross-disciplinary team of researchers and local Indigenous collaborators in two Western Alaska villages—Chevak and Dillingham—sought to identify ways in which community resilience can be learned from and bolstered in the face of ongoing environmental change.
As we saw last month with the storms that devastated parts of the region, the challenges are monumental. But so too are the ancestral knowledge and community spirit of the region, and the willingness of people to help where they can.
"Cumikluten (Pay Attention)" is a 35-minute documentary film by Ryan Peterson profiling the work of the POLARIS team, and featuring intimate moments in the field with community members, Cody Larson, Desi Bond, Casey Ferguson, Ula Ulroan, Earl Atchak, James Ayuluk, Dagen Nelson, Reggie Tuluk, Richard Tuluk, and others with deep expertise in subsistence harvesting and maintaining healthy homelands."