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“Throughout a two-year odyssey . . . Kizzia visited a large number of native settlements, interviewed leaders and followers, and wrote the feature articles that make up this charming, informative book. . . . Kizzia writes a clear, unobtrusive prose that crystallizes in memorable images.”-Washington Post “A boatful of native Alaskans slapping downriver during the chop on their method to the biggest softball game of the season. A hunter making a song the old songs for hunting luck, as he snowmobiles onto the ice with his rifle. Such contrasts-Eskimo and outsider, ancient and up to date-run through Tom Kizzia’s chronicle of travels within the Alaska bush on the lookout for ‘ancestral landscapes.'”-Smithsonian Tom Kizzia is a journalist on the Anchorage Day-to-day News.