Life kept changing for the Yup’ik’s
The government now helped take care of the elderly or disabled.
Money was earned by the men by trapping animals for their fur to make luxury coats
They netted salmon to make smoked fish, or lox
A freighter would come from Seattle and bring supplies and more factory made goods.
Some families bought stoves, which burned fuel oil instead of relying on brushwood to heat their homes
People began to leave and journey elsewhere to live or go to school