The ability to cast a ballot isn’t always guaranteed in Alaska’s far-flung Native villages

Published on: 11/02/2024

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A stop sign is seen on Nanook Avenue, a word taken from the Inupiaq word for polar bear, in an undeveloped area at the edge of the village in Kaktovik, Alaska, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) In Kaktovik, one of more than 200 remote Native villages dotting Alaska, registered voters had no place to cast ballots for the state's Aug. 20 primary. (AP Graphic) The village of Kaktovik is seen at the edge of Barter Island in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, near Kaktovik, Alaska, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) Kaktovik Mayor Nathan Gordon Jr. drives past open tundra on the west side of Barter Island while keeping an eye out for polar bears near Kaktovik, Alaska, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) The sun rises over the village as a resident walks on a snowy road in Kaktovik, Alaska, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) Wind blows snow along the surface of the village cemetery looking towards the Kaktovik Lagoon and the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in Kaktovik, Alaska, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) Kitty Ahvakana, right, takes a smoke break with other villagers during a A pair of small boats sit in a blizzard in Kaktovik, Alaska, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) A neighborhood dog approaches a villager walking past the Kaktovik Native Village office in Kaktovik, Alaska, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) Charles Lampe, president of the Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation and a city council member, poses for a portrait outside his home in Kaktovik, Alaska, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) Prices of Halloween products are displayed on a counter of the Kaktovik Kikiktak Store in Kaktovik, Alaska, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) Postmaster Angel Akootchook, the village's only full-time postal employee, hands a stack of mail to a resident in Kaktovik, Alaska, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) A CBS News broadcast showing Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris is reflected in the eyeglasses of Alice Aishanna as she watches television at her home in Kaktovik, Alaska, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) George Kaleak, center in grey, whaling captain and deputy advisor to the North Slope Borough mayor, plays guitar during a A child walks to the village's school bus as a blizzard blows outside in Kaktovik, Alaska, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) The sun rises over a bicycle covered in snow at the edge of the village in Kaktovik, Alaska, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) In blizzard winds, Lee Kayotuk, center, helps unload cargo from the one flight of the day in and out of the village in Kaktovik, Alaska, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) A sundog forms a vertical rainbow as a villager walks by transmission dishes in Kaktovik, Alaska, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) Children stop to talk with friends on a snowmobile as they play in the snow after school in the village of Kaktovik, Alaska, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) A resident walks with their child past the village's post office in Kaktovik, Alaska, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) A villager walks through the snow in Kaktovik, Alaska, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) A polar bear and a cub search for scraps in a large pile of bowhead whale bones left from the village's subsistence hunting at the end of an unused airstrip near the village of Kaktovik, Alaska, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) FILE - Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, administers the House oath of office to Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, accompanied by her husband Eugene Edwin Solomon, 18, right, stands in the wind and snow while filling up a truck with regular gas at a price of $7.50 a gallon in Kaktovik, Alaska, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) Alice Aishanna steps into her living room while a CBS News broadcast shows Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, at her home in Kaktovik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) Johnny, 7, holds his pellet gun for warding away polar bears as he goes out to play with other children after school in Kaktovik, Alaska, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) An ermine runs through the snow with its catch near a villager's ATV as night falls in Kaktovik, Alaska, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) George Kaleak, left, whaling captain and deputy advisor to the North Slope Borough mayor, talks with cashier Kent Sims, right, at Sims Store, one of two small grocery stores in the village in Kaktovik, Alaska, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) Polar bears and the Inupiaq word for Chloe Gordon, 9, looks at her mother, Amanda Toorak, left, as they shop for packaged goods at Sims Store, one of two small stores in the village in Kaktovik, Alaska, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) A sign seeking election help is displayed on the bulletin board in the community building in Kaktovik, Alaska, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen) Alice Aishanna poses for a portrait outside her home displaying several American flags in Kaktovik, Alaska, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) Community members bow their heads for a prayer during a

KAKTOVIK, Alaska (AP) — Early last summer, George Kaleak, a whaling captain in the tiny Alaska Native village of Kaktovik, on an island in the Arctic Ocean just off the state’s northern coast, pinned a flyer to the blue, ribbon-lined bulletin board in the community center.

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