Chefornak News

Ashley Bashore confers with defense attorney Rex Butler during her sentencing on Monday, April 8, 2013, for the hit-and-run death of Hubert Tunuchuk of the Western Alaska Village of Chefornak, who was walking along the Tudor Road overpass above the Seward Highway in the early the morning of Easter Sunday 2011.

Early in our series "Being Young in Rural Alaska" from the producers of Kids These Days, we learned about efforts to re-introduce indigenous languages through school programs.

"There's absolutely no profile," said Steiding. "It's citywide. Suspects are from the entire spectrum of socioeconomics.