Writing the Alaska Native Story with Jan Harper Haines, Willie

Alaska Native Writers and Alaska Native Themes

Writing the Alaska Native Story with Jan Harper Haines, Willie Hensley and others

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This rare group of Alaskan Native and Alaskan writers come together to discuss "Writing the Alaska Native Story". Participants include Jan Harper Haines, author of Cold River Spirits: Whispers from a Family’s Forgotten Past; Lael Morgan author of Eskimo Star; William L. Iggiagruk Hensley, author of Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People; and Dr. Jeane Breinig—Haida/ Raven, Brown Bear Clan-- (UAA English Dept), co-editor of Alaska Native Writers, Story Tellers & Orator/Alaska Quarterly Review.

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