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    <body><![CDATA[A narrative ethnographic autobiography.  Velma Wallis' life growing up in Fort Yukon, Alaska in the 60s &amp; 70s chronicles the beginnings of the welfare system in Native Alaska-and the concurrent loss of traditional culture as older vllagers die off.  A very important read for anyone unfamiliar with t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38791820">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Rural Alaska became a bit more real to me after reading this. A vivid account of the slow decline of a community.]]></body>
    
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