As footprints fade
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The Athabsacan tradition of snowshoe making in Alaska is under threat as the existing snowshoe makers age and die and nobody steps forward to fill their shoes. Bill Mackowski, an expert on Native-made snowshoes and their history, contends that the art form has died off quicker in Alaska than in Canada as Westernization has spread more quickly in Alaska over the past 100 years than it has in Canada.
Publication Name: Alaska
Subject: Travel, recreation and leisure
ISSN: 0002-4562
Year: 2003
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Death of the high swami
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A profile of the life and death of Dick Cook, a resident of Sheep Creek in Alaska's upper Yukon country. Cook, a legendary trapper who came to fame when he was described in John McPhee's best-selling book, "Coming Into the Country, in the 1970s, died in June 2001 aged 70 after drowning in Sheep Creek.
Publication Name: Alaska
Subject: Travel, recreation and leisure
ISSN: 0002-4562
Year: 2003
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Stranded on the trap line
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An Eskimo woman provides a personal account of going fox trapping in Alaska in the 1930s with her father and how the trip forced to her to grow up. During the trapping expedition the author's father became ill and she feared that he would die while they were out in the wilderness and away from home.
Publication Name: Alaska
Subject: Travel, recreation and leisure
ISSN: 0002-4562
Year: 2003
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