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Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People
Location(s): Alaska
Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
Era(s): 20th century
Born twenty-nine miles north of the arctic circle, William L. Iggiagruk Hensley was raised to live the semi-nomadic life that his Iñupiaq ancestors had lived for thousands of years.
In this stirring memoir, he offers us a rare first-hand 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 Iñupiaq people and of fighting for their rights
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