"Alaska looms as a mythical, savage place, part nature preserve, part theme park, too vast to understand fully. Which is why C.B. Bernard lashed

Alaska is home to some of the world's oldest totem poles. Once craved to signify family and rank to others in the community, they now express the

Archaeologist Ellen Bielawski takes us back in time and shows us Alaska before white men arrived. She explains how archaeology has given us clues