Lost Villages Project Enables Elders to Visit Homes of Their Ancestors

Alexandra Gutierrez, KUCB – Unalaska

For the past two years, the Lost Villages Project has made it possible for some Alaska natives to see the places their ancestors called home. Last week, a group of about a dozen elders and descendants of Unangan villages braved harsh weather to visit Biorka and Kashega in the Aleutian Islands.

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