***Coming Into the Country*** by John McPhee. Nonfiction. Three long essays about Alaska, one of which is okay (*What They Were Hunting For*) and the other two of which are excellent (*The Encircled River* and *Coming Into the Country*).
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My great-aunt Frederica de Laguna wrote anthropology books about the native Alaskans, including _Tales of the Dena_, _Travels Among the Dena_, and _Under Mount Saint Elias_, and one mystery novel set in Alaska called _Fog on the Mountain_.
She was adopted as a “grandmother” by the Yakutat Tlingit in 1996 because her early studies of the culture (1920s and thereabouts) preserved it through the period of forced Americanization of the native Alaskans, and she was able to bring them back their language, stories, and songs.
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***Coming Into the Country*** by John McPhee. Nonfiction. Three long essays about Alaska, one of which is okay (*What They Were Hunting For*) and the other two of which are excellent (*The Encircled River* and *Coming Into the Country*).
My great-aunt Frederica de Laguna wrote anthropology books about the native Alaskans, including _Tales of the Dena_, _Travels Among the Dena_, and _Under Mount Saint Elias_, and one mystery novel set in Alaska called _Fog on the Mountain_.
She was adopted as a “grandmother” by the Yakutat Tlingit in 1996 because her early studies of the culture (1920s and thereabouts) preserved it through the period of forced Americanization of the native Alaskans, and she was able to bring them back their language, stories, and songs.