Sacred Steps: Fighting for what’s sacred in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

The Spiritual Edge

In this episode of TSE's series Sacred Steps, we profile Neets’aii Gwich’in leader Sarah James. For most of her life, Sarah has worked to protect her homelands, which include the coastal plain of the nearby Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It hasn’t been easy. The region’s longtime inhabitants say plans to drill for oil and gas in the area threaten the Porcupine Caribou population and land that they call sacred.