Traditional foods being collected for Typhoon Halong evacuees

Both the Alaska Native Heritage Center and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium are coordinating donations of traditional Alaskan foods for evacuees. "Right now, we're focused on providing those really good, healthy, traditional foods to those evacuees who have been displaced by Typhoon Halong," said Shea Sigert with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. For a lot of the evacuees, they aren't used to city life. So a lot of the cheap food options here in town, like McDonald's, just won't do. That's why a lot of these donations are important for them. "There's no, you know, McDonald's in the villages. There's no Fred Meyer. There's no Wal-Mart. And so being able to build our livelihoods and fill our freezers to share with our community is really, really importan