Young’s Arctic legacy includes support for Alaska’s Indigenous people, refuge drilling
Young lived in Fort Yukon, an Alaska Native village on the Arctic Circle.
March 22, 2022
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Don Young, who represented Alaska in Congress for most of its years since statehood, leaves a legacy that includes support for Alaska’s Indigenous people and a decades-long push to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling.
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