Chewing mixture of tobacco, ash a Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta tradition

BETHEL, ALASKA (adn.com) Jennifer Wilson, a dentist here, thought she knew chew. Growing up in tobacco-loving Kentucky, it was common to see men loading up on Copenhagen or Skoal. Women too. What she found while treating patients in Western Alaska's largest city and the surrounding villages was something different: People of all ages, sometimes entire families, chewing an earthy, super-charged variety of smokeless tobacco. It's called iqmik, or blackbull, and it makes a mule kick of a first impression. Continued