...him by friend and fellow carver Abel Ryan, and the polar bear hide was brought to him by a friend with family on Little Diomede Island."A buddy of mine, his cousin lives on Little Diomede, and this bear was chasing his next door neighbor across...

...anything, you are walking into, 'Holy cow, I forgot that was hanging there.'" Bottorff's family is from Little Diomede Island and her grandmother was from Siberia. She was born, however, in Shovel Creek near Nome. On the back wall of...

...year. The Guard chooses different villages each year, although St. Lawrence Island is always included and so is Little Diomede Island, a tiny dot just east of the Russian boundary. "Little Diomede is so remote and they live such a tough life...