My name is Jennie. My husband, James, is Gwich'in/Irish and I am white. The Gwich'in are an Alaskan Athabaskan tribe. His paternal grandfather was an Irishman who moved to Alaska in 1911.

Brown is an enrolled member of the Athabaskan Tribe who’s part of the program’s class of 2024 at Tacoma Public Schools. The student’s eyes lit up while talking about the significance of the ...