Oscarville Tribal Climate Adaptation Plan

Pektayiinata = We are Resilient

Oscarville Traditional Village - With more frequent and unpredictable weather patterns, the people of Oscarville are having to rethink adaptation and how to respond to a rapidly changing environment. This report utilizes the traditional wisdom of the Yup’ik people and infuses the Western science and research into a new space for value-based decision making for adaptation. Predictions show the Arctic has warmed three times faster than elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere, reversing a 2000-year cooling trend, and outpacing current climate model predictions