内容摘要：Erin Greene, center, owner of Sup North, hands out equipment before leading a paddleboarding tour, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Erin Greene, center, owner of Sup North, hands out equipment before leading a paddleboarding tour, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Girlie Carl, 4, plays with her grandmother Marie Carl, 75, on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024, Mertarvik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)Tom said there’s talk of someday renaming the relocated town Newtok. Whatever the name, the relocation offers assurance that culture and traditions from the old place will continue. An Indigenous drum and dance group is practicing at the temporary school, and subsistence hunting opportunities — moose, musk ox, black bear, brown bear — abound.

A pod of belugas that comes by every fall should arrive soon, and that hunt will help residents fill their freezers for the harsh winter ahead.Jennifer sits with her daughter Girlie, 4, at their home on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024, in Mertarvik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)Jennifer sits with her daughter Girlie, 4, at their home on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024, in Mertarvik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Ashley Tom is excited by the arrival of the last Newtok residents in Mertarvik. Although their home will be different than what they’ve known for most of their lives, she’s confident they will come to appreciate it as she has.“I really love this this new area, and I just feel whole here,” she said.

Thiessen reported from Anchorage.

This story was first published on Sep. 26, 2024. It was updated on Sep. 28, 2024 to correct the number of villages facing infrastructure damage from erosion, 144 not 114. It also corrects the name of the organization that authored the Unmet Needs report, and where Jackie Qatalina Schaeffer works as the director of climate initiatives. It is the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, not the Alaska Native Travel Health Consortium.Fresh flowers are left at the Vietnam War Memorial honoring South Vietnamese military officers in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster, Calif., April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

A woman wearing a traditional Vietnamese conical hat waits for a bus in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster, Calif., April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)A woman wearing a traditional Vietnamese conical hat waits for a bus in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster, Calif., April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

A woman pushes a shopping cart past rows of American flags and banners advertising U.S. citizenship and immigration services in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Garden Grove, Calif., April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)A woman pushes a shopping cart past rows of American flags and banners advertising U.S. citizenship and immigration services in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Garden Grove, Calif., April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)