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Video: Elders and youth sing "Happy Birthday" to Katie John

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service posthumously named Ahtna elder and Alaska Native advocate Katie John a Conservation Hero on Tuesday, October 13, 2015, during the Elders and Youth Conference at the Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center in downtown Anchorage. John passed away on May 31, 2013.

At the end of the presentation at the Elders and Youth Conference in Anchorage, Katie John's family onstage noted that she would have turned 100 on Oct. 15, 2015. Then those attending the conference session sang "Happy Birthday" to her.

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