Daniel Lee Henry discusses his book Across the Shaman’s River, John Muir, the Tlingit Stronghold and the Opening of the North. (Note, the presentation that accompanies the audio podcast is also posted in iTunes.) Across the Shaman’s River examines what happened when a great Tlingit community, one closed off from intruders for over a century, encountered naturalist and explorer John Muir. By researching John Muir’s journal entries, historic writings of explorers, and interviewing Tlingit elders and tribal descendants, author Daniel Lee Henry reveals how the early principles of land conservation and Christianity had profound consequences for the Tlingit people and led to a policy that would ultimately dispossess Tlingit peoples, and other Alaska Native peoples, from their ancestral lands. Daniel Henry is an instructor at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon, and the founder of the Alaska Native Oratory Society. An educator, writer, and broadcaster he became acquainted with local Tlingit culture when he moved to Haines, Alaska in 1983.