Dedicated to past and present researchers in the Division of Subsistence

of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, and to the memory of Linda Ellanna

whose passion, leadership and intellectual contributions as the Division's

first research director continue to inspire many who knew her.

And to Theodore Nathan Tobias and the memory of Evelyn Joyce Juno,

whose years of hard work helped land me the privilege of working

with many communities and writing this book.