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Alaska Native Writers and Alaska Native Themes

How Life in the Arctic is Depicted with Seth Kantner and others

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How Life in the Arctic is Depicted aims to bring attention to misrepresentations of contemporary Alaska Native life. Participants include Seth Kantner, author of Ordinary Wolves and the book Shopping for Porcupine; Phyllis Fast, Anthropology Dept./UAA and author of Northern Athabaskan Survival; James Labelle, Alaska Native Studies/UAA; and Karla Booth, Alaska Native Rural Outreach Program/UAA.

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