Norton Sound Communities Look To Build Commercial Reindeer Economy
![Man in a white hoodie and jeans stands inside the door of a trailer](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/IMG_3315-2-1200x900.jpg)
“If we did it right,” says Savoonga tribal chief Delbert Pungowiyi, the Bering Straits region “could become Alaska’s reindeer capital.”
At Midnite Sun Ranch, Youth Summit Aims to Revitalize Reindeer Herding with a New Generation
![Reindeer inside a corral](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20170619_111332-1200x900.jpg)
Bruce Davis, who owns and operates the ranch with his wife Ann, says that they want to let western Alaska children know “that there’s reindeer here on the Seward Peninsula, and it’s a way to make a living.”
Elder Voices: Ardith Weyiouanna
![Shishmaref Sea Ice. (Photo: Maddie Winchester, KNOM)](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Sea-Ice-Part-2-1200x900.jpg)
In a 2009 interview, Ardith Weyiouanna of Shishmaref talks about spending her youth herding reindeer with her parents.