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Chapman 1 Anthropology of Alaska Chelsea Chapman Department of Anthropology Field: Anthropology of Alaska and Northern North America Title: Persistent Frontiers: Ethnography, Development and Northern Athabascan Nations Supervised by Paul Nadasdy Spring 2010 Indigenous Societies of Alaska and the Yukon Berger, Thomas R. 1985 Village Journey: The Report of the Alaska Native Review Commission. New York: Hill and Wang Bolanz, Maria 2009 Memories of My Trap Line, in The Alaska Native Reader: History, Culture, Politics, Maria Shaa Tláa Williams, ed. Durham: Duke University Press Brody, Hugh 1981 Maps and Dreams: Indians and the British Columbia Frontier. Vancouver: Waveland Press 1987 Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North. Seattle: University of Washington Press Brown, Caroline and Lisa Rieger 2001 Culture and Compliance: Locating the Indian Child Welfare Act in Practice. 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