Natives on the front lines of climate change

Kiokun is one of only three full-time employees for the Qutekcak Native Tribe.

JEANETTE Kiokun, the tribal clerk for the Qutekcak Native Tribe in Alaska, doesn’t immediately recognise the shrivelled, brown plant she finds on the shore of the Salish Sea or others that were sunburned during the long, hot summer. But a fellow student at a weeklong tribal climate camp does.

They are rosehips, traditionally used in teas and baths by the Skokomish Indian Tribe in Washington state and other tribes.