Discussion Questions: A Subsistence Culture Impacted by Climate Change

• Make a list of changes in the environment that have been identified by the Athabaskans in this video. How have plant and animal species been affected? Identify some of the species that have already been impacted, or are predicted to be impacted, by the current change in climate.
• What are the implications of these changes to the Athabaskan subsistence culture and way of life?
• What is happening to the rivers that negatively impacts salmon?
• In addition to the Alaska Native peoples, what animals depend on the salmon run for their existence?