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Campaign cartographer 3 versus incarnate3/17/2024 ![]() ![]() Late in the evening, though-say ten or eleven o'clock, lit with the midnight sun-the entire Range may emerge, clear and sharp, awash in a rosy light. On the summer solstice, June 21-in the afternoon, say-the view of spiky, glacier-covered Deborah, Hess, and Hayes (one hundred miles south as the raven flies) is often hazy or even obscured due to moisture in the air, wildfire smoke, or billowing thunderclouds and patchy sheets of rain. It was a "coming together place"-not just for gathering food such as wild potatoes, but, as one Athabascan elder expressed in 2009, a place for "wisdom sharing…and good feeling, good thinking, and working together." Mindful of this sacred history, I like to climb out of my car and scan the length of the Alaska Range. This is the place, named by Tanana Athabascans, where elders in the past came to discuss problems and the concerns of the many groups of Native peoples in the interior of Alaska. On any day or night of the year, I like to park at the pullout on the west end of the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus, high on the sacred hill called Troth Yeddha'. ![]()
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