Here we are.

If you want to come in and spend a little bit of time and make a plan and move from there.

That sounds great.

Producer Caitlin Armstrong is speaking with Kashudoha, a native clinket woman who's reflecting on her favorite memories from her childhood in Huna, Alaska.

This is where I'm most happy is out on the land, in the woods, or on the water, or on the beach.

Huna is on Chichagoff Island in the southeast region of Alaska.

I was raised in Huna, Trinket Village, about 40 miles west from Juneau. Kashidoha said it was an idyllic place for her and her family to grow up.

The fishermen would come in and bring a salmon, if they would be out getting beach food like gumboots or clams and cockles.

The nice sunny, hot days, without even planning it, we would all know we're going down to the cannery,

spend the day just cruising, you know, exploring the area or just laying around

in the sun. And that is where we would picnic. And also beach asparagus would grow there, easy

to harvest. Back then, the spot where she and her family spent so much time was just a wild

patch of land near the water.

Outside of their conversations and the occasional seagull, it was mostly quiet.

But in 2001, local leaders broke ground on icy straightpoint, a privately owned cruise port.

And now, her picnic spot looks completely different.

Now overrun with tourists, four-wheeler's, the whole nine yards, no more beach asparagus.

It's all stepped on. You don't want to pick it.

The port was specifically built as a dock for massive cruise ships.

Some of them carried more than three times the population of the town,

which was just under 900 people at the time.

The ships are getting bigger and bigger and bigger, you know, from the days of, like, the Titanic.

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