TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword

Chapter 1

The Unangan (Aleut): Real People Who Live Near the Shoreline

Chapter 2

Genocide and Slavery

Chapter 3

Callorhinus ursinus: The Northern Fur Seal

Chapter 4

Internment

Chapter 5

My Legacy as an Unangan

Chapter 6

Boxer Shorts and Seals

Chapter 7

Every Unangan Child: The Indirect Effects of Government Oppression

Chapter 8

Sealing

Chapter 9

Death of a Six-Year-Old

Chapter 10

A Personal View of Internal and External Oppression

Chapter 11

A Young Rebel Is Born

Chapter 12

School Without Love

Chapter 13

Death in a Village Is Very Personal

Chapter 14

I Was a “Hooker”

Chapter 15

University Life

Chapter 16

Lobbying for My People Begins

Chapter 17

Family Life

Chapter 18

The Government Pullout: A People in Peril

Chapter 19

Homer Gone

Chapter 20

Another Kind of Death

Chapter 21

The Boat Harbor and Private Enterprise

Chapter 22

The Creator Has a Sense of Humor

Chapter 23

The Spiritual Journey

Chapter 24

The Bear Claw Necklace and the United Nations

Chapter 25

As the Island Turns, Part I

Chapter 26

As the Island Turns, Part II

Chapter 27

An Unangan Love Story

Chapter 28

A Yupik Election

Chapter 29

The Heart of the Halibut: A Rite of Passage of an Unangan Boy

Chapter 30

The Bering Sea Council of Elders

Chapter 31

The Mapuche of Southern Argentina

Chapter 32

What the Elders Say

Chapter 33

Contemplating and Questioning Everything

About the Author