Collaboration, Outreach, Hosting

EPC is honored to work with Indigenous people all over world. and hosts Indigenous conferences in Cordova, and offers support to Indigenous issues with strategy assistance, outreach and media assistance.

The EPC's Eyak cultural preservation work and collaborations with other Indigenous communities is long-standing and rewarding. We are collaborating with REDOIL, an Alaska-wide Indigenous advocacy organization focused on potential and existing impacts of oil exploration and development on culture, subsistence, and environment in the Arctic, with an appeal to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources regarding the Beaufort Sea Areawide Oil lease and exploration permits. Polar bear habitat and subsistence are at great issue with this lease sale. We assisted in founding REDOIL, and EPC's Dune Lankard is on their board of directors.

EPC also works closely with the Gwich'in in their struggle against oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. EPC is strongly against proposed oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. We stand in solidarity with the Gwich'in. This coastal plain area is the birthplace of their primary food source and known to them as their ally, the Porcupine Caribou herd. The Gwich'in call this region "Izhik Gwats'an Gwandaii Goodit" which translates to: The Sacred Place Where Life Begins." Take action and CALL your representative and congressperson and tell them NO to drilling in the Arctic Refuge.