Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- People and the land -- Alaska's Native Northerners -- History, modernization, and development -- Part 1: Connections -- 1. The long journey -- Pursuing the past -- First Americans -- Eskimo successors -- Inupiat: the Real People -- 2. Colonial encounter -- In search of wealth -- Whaling and trading -- The "Big Sickness" -- Herding and trapping -- Missions and schools -- Changing social relations -- Part 2: Village legacy -- 3. A place called Kaktovik -- Rite of passage -- Settling in -- Some lessons learned -- A sense of history -- 4. Social life -- Making a living -- Growing up -- Youth and courtship -- Marriage and family -- 5. Beyond kin -- Religion and health -- Law and social control -- Concepts and ideas -- The economics of dependency -- Part 3: Politics, petroleum, and profit -- 6. Claiming the land -- Threats to Native Rights -- Emerging political associations -- Discovery at Prudhoe Bay -- Changes in leadership -- Discourses on development -- The corporate option -- The land claims settlement -- 7. Taking control -- Corporate strategies and village values -- The North Slope Borough -- Defending subsistence rights -- Enhancing cultural identity -- Capital improvement program -- Economic problems -- 8. Prospects for the future -- A modern Barrow -- Search for solutions -- Return to Kaktovik -- Protecting Native land and resources -- 9. Nature, culture, and development -- In pursuit of progress -- Emerging class relations -- Commodities, needs, and satisfactions -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Acronyms -- Index.