11 DECEMBER 2025
In northern Alaska, to help preserve and celebrate traditional cultural heritage, we recently partnered with local Doyon Tribal leaders on a social mapping exercise and videography project.
Our 100%-owned Roosevelt project is just above the Arctic Circle in northern Alaska, where we have been exploring for potential copper and zinc resources for the last six years or so. This area is home to the Doyon Tribes and for them, Alaska’s vast interior has been their traditional homeland for tens of thousands of years.
We have been engaging with the Doyon Tribes and the Doyon Native Corporation, as part of our commitment to building strong relationships with communities, including Indigenous, Traditional and Tribal Peoples. This includes community meetings and webinars to share project updates, listen to feedback and discuss employment, training and procurement opportunities. Our work also involves support for local cultural events and activities, contributing to cultural wellbeing by bringing regional villagers together to celebrate tribal traditions.
Due to their remote location, the Doyon people can face various struggles, including limited economic opportunities, high living costs and other socioeconomic challenges. But they are also close-knit and resilient community, passionate about the longevity of their culture and traditions.
To help preserve and celebrate this traditional cultural heritage, we recently partnered with local Tribal leaders on a social mapping exercise and videography project. Elders and community knowledge keepers across generations were invited to participate, with the aim of documenting cultural meanings, traditions and knowledge from those with deep and long-standing connections to the land and community.
Together, we developed digitised maps highlighting culturally significant locations, and supported the production of videos featuring community members sharing stories, traditions and their reflections on the importance of cultural knowledge in maintaining healthy families and strong Tribal communities. Once complete, the materials were returned to the communities as large-format maps and videos.
By preserving cultural knowledge in modern, accessible formats, this initiative will help to celebrate Tribal history, traditions and values, strengthen the sense of belonging within Tribal communities and enable this rich cultural knowledge to be shared now and for generations to come.
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