Alaska Rep. Peltola stuns home region by defending Donlin gold mine, a project she once opposed

A camera crew documents Mary Peltola fishing. (Photo by Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media)
Congresswoman Mary Peltola has joined Alaska’s U.S senators on a legal brief in support of the proposed Donlin Creek Mine in Peltola’s home region of the Kuskokwim Delta.
Tribal and subsistence advocates in the region are shocked that Peltola, whose campaign slogan was “Fish, Family and Freedom,” would take this position. Sophie Swope, executive director of a Bethel-based tribal coalit