Last week, families and students in Klukwan gathered in the library to meet members of a rapidly growing nonprofit that hosts pop-up book shops and gives away free Indigenous-centered books.

It was one stop in a 10-day tour of the region by the NDN Girls Book Club, a national organization which partnered with Southeast Alaska’s largest tribal government to give away more than 3,500 books.

“[It’s] a tour from Yakutat to Hydeburg,” said Tristan Douville,…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...