Sunday, August 23, 2009




The following pictures will give you a flavor of village life in rural Alaska. We have two stores in town one located at either end of the village (AC - Alaska Commercial and the Yukon Delta Fish Marketing Co-op ie Company store). As you can see, inside the company store looks like any grocery store, but the prices are thru the roof!!! Inside the company store there is a deli where one can purchase things like deep fried stuff ie fries, chicken etc. The per capita income of Emmonak is $9069. so the village like most is on welfare. Most of the natives purchases that I have noticed are via their welfare credit cards.

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