On the night of September 13, 2017, Natalia Ayunerak, a 40-year-old Native Alaskan woman from Alakanuk, plunged into tragedy during what should have been a routine moose hunt. As she participated in the hunt, approximately 30 miles upriver from Russian Mission along the Yukon River, a gunshot rang out. The details of the fatal shot remain murky. It was reported to Alaska State Troopers the following morning—her death was discovered only hours later amid the hushed stillness of the river's
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