An Inupiaq herself, she has been hiding away from her own identity.
To be a police officer in Ennis is often to represent the interests of the town’s biggest employer.
Navarro and Danvers are not in the business of administering environmental justice or blowing the whistle on polluted groundwater.
If there is tension around the mine, they’re the ones squelching protests or arresting activists like Annie for breaking the law.
That, inevitably, puts them on one side of a stark racial line.
Persons:
Scott Tobias, Annie Kowtok, Annie, Navarro, we’ve, Inupiaq, Danvers
Locations:
Ennis