Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People by Hensley, William L. Iggiagruk

Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312429362)

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Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People by Hensley, William L. Iggiagruk

Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People

$19.00
Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People by Hensley, William L. Iggiagruk

Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People

$19.00
Format: Paperback
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE

An alternately charming and harrowing account of over 50 years of one remarkable native Alaskan's life - from living off the land north of the Arctic Circle, to the Alaskan senate, Hensely is a huge hero to his community.

Born twenty-nine miles north of the arctic circle, William L. Iggiagruk Hensley was raised to live the seminomadic life that his Ipiaq ancestors had lived for thousands of years. In this stirring memoir, he offers us a rare firsthand 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 Ipiaq people and of fighting for their rights (Library Journal).

Author: William L. Iggiagruk Hensley
ISBN-10: 0312429363
ISBN-13: 9780312429362
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 03/02/2010
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.60w x 0.82d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 03/21/2010 pg. 24
By William L. Iggiagruk Hensley
By William L. Iggiagruk Hensley
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William L. Iggiagruk Hensley was a founder of the Northwest Alaska Native Association and spent twenty years working for its successor, the Iit-owned NANA Regional Corporation. He also helped establish the Alaska Federation of Natives in 1966 and has served as its director, executive director, president, and cochair. He spent ten years in the Alaska state legislature as a representative and senator, and recently retired from his position in Washington, D.C., as manager of federal government relations for Alyeska Pipeline Service Company.

Hensley and his wife, Abigale, live in Anchorage, where--now an Ipiat elder--he is the chair of the First Alaskans Institute.

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