Willie Hensley is known in Alaska as being a founder for the Northwest Alaska Native Association, NANA Corporation, Alaska Federation of Natives, and having been a member of the Alaska State Legislature for ten years. His beautifully written memoir, Fifty Miles from Tomorrow, incorporates the richness of Inupiat culture and traditions. those that permeate time and place. This book is more than one person's story but the story of Alaska and how people have coped with drastic changes. Introducing Willie Hensley is Paul Ongtooguk.