Totally dude! Would love to hear them! And yeah, with all the sun it stays 85 degrees for like 14 hours >.<
Fairbanks is a desert. Just past the hills here is endless taiga, then tundra not much farther.
With regards to the state of the native population here, let's put it this way: Alaska had the first major civil rights movement in the US. Discrimination here was and still is on another level from other minority populations, which generates the government dependence in a lot of ways. I know there's competing ideas about that by politicians but you'd be shocked at what has happened to a lot of communities here due to racist government arbitration last century and the one prior, and then what these communities did to themselves after all that trauma. A very good comparison is what happened in Canada with the Department of Indian Affairs in the late 19th thru mid 20th century, and the massive loss of land rights that happened simultaneously. They never recovered, basically, and might still never with the current state of affairs. I'm close with a number of people involved with this so I'm not just talking out my ass, promise.