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Growing Up Native in Alaska
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Essay about and excerpts from Alexandra J. McClanahan's book "Growing Up Native in Alaska" (CIRI Foundation 2000).
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Janie Leask
President/CEO, First Alaskans Institute; Former president, AFN.
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Robert W. Rude
Past president and executive director of the Cook Inlet Native Association and founder of the Cook Inlet Housing Authority.
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Walter Hickel
Secretary of the Interior for President Nixon, former governor of Alaska.
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Byron Mallott
Senior Fellow, Alaska Native Policy Center; original participant, former president and CEO, First Alaskans Foundation.
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William Van Ness, Jr.
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Former chief counsel to the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee under Senator Henry Jackson.
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Tom Richards, Jr.
Past president of Alaskans on the Potomac, former Tundra Times editor and a staff officer in the 1970s and '80s for tribal organizations in the Alaska Area Office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Alice Petrivelli
Former president and current chair, The Aleut Corporation.
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Sam Kito
Former chairman, AFN; former president, Fairbanks Native Association; former vice president, Tanana Chiefs Conference, Inc.; former vice president, Doyon, Inc..
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John Havelock
Former attorney general, State of Alaska.
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Margie Brown
President and Chief Executive Officer of CIRI; Former senior vice president; CIRI Land Exchange, Inc.; former director, The CIRI Foundation.
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Nels Anderson, Jr.
Former deputy director, RurALCAP; former CEO, Bristol Bay Native Corporation.
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Albert Kookesh
Current member, Alaska Legislature.
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Irene Rowan
Former president of Klukwan, Inc. and member of Alaskans on the Potomac, which provided volunteer services to Alaska Natives traveling to Washington to work on ANCSA.
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Guy Martin
Former CEO, Sealaska; former congressional aide.
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Marlene Johnson
Former member of the Tlingit-Haida executive committee for the Tlingit-Haida Centra Council; one of incorporators of Sealaska and former chairman of the Sealaska board.
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Esther Wunnicke
Contributor to the Federal Field Committee's "Alaska Natives and the Land".
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Willie Hensley
Author of "What Rights to Land Have the Alaska Natives"; founder, NANA Regional Corporation; founder, Maniilaq; former president of AFN.
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Senator Mike Gravel
Former United States senator representing Alaska.
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John Shively
Former vice president, AFN; former chief operating officer, NANA Development Corporation.
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John Borbridge Jr.
Former president, Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska; Former vice president, AFN; former president and chairman of the Board, Sealaska Corporation.
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Nettie Peratrovich
Involved in Fairbanks Native Association and then, in Washington, D.C., with Alaskans on the Potomac and the Johnson O'Malley program.
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Emil Notti
Former president, AFN; former commissioner, Alaska Department of Community and Rural Affairs.
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Joseph Upicksoun
Former president, Arctic Slope Native Association; board member, AFN.
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C. Robert Zelnick
Former reporter for Anchorage Daily News, former national correspondent for ABC News. Interviews were conducted by Willy Templeton, director of Native Student Services, University of Alaska Anchorage.
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