Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People

Type

Book

Authors

Hensley, William L. Iggiagruk

ISBN 10

0312429363

ISBN 13

9780312429362

Tags

Native American & Aboriginal, United States, Political, Memoirs, Mid Atlantic, Native American, State & Local, Arctic & Antarctica, Native American Studies

Description

Born twenty-nine miles north of the Arctic Circle, William L. Iggiagruk Hensley was raised to live the seminomadic life that his Inupiaq ancestors had lived for thousands of years. In this stirring memoir, he offers us a rare firsthand account of growing up Native Alaskan, and later, in the lower forty-eight, as a fearless advocate for Native land rights. In 1971, after years of tirelessly lobbying the United States government, he played a key role in a landmark victory that enabled the Inupiaq to take charge of their economic and political destiny. Fifty Miles from Tomorrow is "a joyous celebration of Hensley's life among the Inupiaq people and of fighting for their rights" (Library Journal).

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