Table of Contents
Foreword xvii
Chapter 1 The Unangan (Aleut): Real People Who Live Near the Shoreline 1
Chapter 2 Genocide and Slavery 7
Chapter 3 Callorhinus unsinus: The Northern Fur Seal 13
Chapter 4 Internment 17
Chapter 5 My Legacy as an Unangan 25
Chapter 6 Boxer Shorts and Seals 37
Chapter 7 Every Unangan Child: The Indirect Effects of Government Oppression 41
Chapter 8 Sealing 45
Chapter 9 Death of a Six-Year-Old 49
Chapter 10 A Personal View of Internal and External Oppression 57
Chapter 11 A Young Rebel Is Born 61
Chapter 12 School Without Love 67
Chapter 13 Death in a Village Is Very Personal 71
Chapter 14 I Was a "Hooker" 75
Chapter 15 University Life 79
Chapter 16 Lobbying for My People Begins 85
Chapter 17 Family Life 89
Chapter 18 The Government Pullout: A People in Peril 91
Chapter 19 Homer Gone 99
Chapter 20 Another Kind of Death 109
Chapter 21 The Boat Harbor and Private Enterprise 115
Chapter 22 The Creator Has a Sense of Humor 119
Chapter 23 The Spiritual Journey 123
Chapter 24 The Bear Claw Necklace and the United Nations 133
Chapter 25 As the Island Turns, Part I 139
Chapter 26 As the Island Turns, Part II 147
Chapter 27 An Unangan Love Story 151
Chapter 28 A Yupik Election 157
Chapter 29 The Heart of the Halihut: A Rite of Passage of an Unangan Boy 165
Chapter 30 The Bering Sea Council of Elders 173
Chapter 31 The Mapuche of Southern Argentina 177
Chapter 32 What the Elders Say 181
Chapter 33 Contemplating and Questioning Everything 189
About the Author 193
