Authors of The Resistance mourn and indict the abandonment of Kipnuk, Kwigillingok, Napakiak, and every Indigenous village swept into silence by Typhoon Halong.
This is not a natural disaster—it is a colonial consequence. A storm made stronger by climate collapse, battering the Bering Sea coast, where Native families have lived for generations. Homes were not just flooded—they were erased. Entire communities displaced. Elders stranded. Children airlifted. And still, the world looks away.
This is not misfortune—it is neglect. The hardest-hit regions are the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, where Yup’ik and Cup’ik families live in ancestral lands long denied infrastructure, flood protection, or equitable disaster response. The winds reached 100 mph. The water surged six feet above normal. And yet, the aid is slow, the coverage minimal, the urgency absent.
This is not recovery—it is erasure. No headlines name the villages. No national broadcasts show the homes floating away. No federal response centers the sovereignty of the people most impacted. And yet, the survivors remain—resilient, grieving, and demanding to be seen.
We demand visibility. We demand mutual aid. We demand that Indigenous communities be centered in every recovery plan—not as afterthoughts, but as the frontline.
Silence is complicity. Naming is resistance. Mutual aid is survival.
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