Klukwan youths held cards naming deceased villagers who supported the dream of a culture center but didn’t live to see it realized, then helped turn shovels of dirt at the ceremonial groundbreaking for the Jilkaat Kwaan Cultural Center and Bald Eagle Observatory May 8.

“These people (on the name cards) took a stand for the culture and carried the knowledge of the culture to the next generation. The young people will have to carry it…