About the Author

James Kari is professor emeritus of linguistics, University of Alaska Fairbanks and author or editor of numerous publications on Athabascan languages and peoples. James A. Fall is a cultural anthropologist at the Division of Subsistence of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. He is the author of The Upper Inlet Tanaina: Patterns of Leadership Among an Alaska Athabaskan People (Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska), which was based on research with Shem Pete and other Dena'ina elders.

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Shem Pete's Alaska is a treasure of personal connectedness to the beautiful land....In the stories of the place names you will find the joy of remembrance in every knoll and waterway.