The Kachemak Selo School serves 39 students in grades K-12 in a roadless and remote village established by Russian Old Believers, a branch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The East Anchorage High and Scammon Bay students gather at a home in the Native Village to learn how to comb fur from a musk ox hide using special combs and common forks. The fur can later be spun into yarn.
The remote Alaska town of Glennallen, 180 miles northeast of Anchorage, is home to 500 people. The local school’s graduating class numbered 14 this year.
