Willie Hensley's guest appearances

Willie Hensley

Alaska Native Writers and Alaska Native Themes

Memoir

Elders - Words of Wisdom

Colleen Mondor

Dan Walker

Thomas Merton

Carla Williams

Caroline Van Hemert

Mike Holloway

Jane Harper

Jenny Miller

Mike Gordon

Jon Davis

Larry Merculieff

Peter Dunlap-Shohl

Jeff Schultz

Charles Wohlforth

Lizbeth Meredith

OwlTail

This month we talk to Willie Hensley about his life, career, and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. For more NRC news and to keep informed of when we publish the next episode of our podcast, visit us on Facebook or our website! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UAANRC/Website: https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/academics/college-of-health/nrc-alaska-native-elders/

This month we talk to Willie Hensley about his life, career, and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. For more NRC news and to keep informed of when we publish the next episode of our podcast, visit us on Facebook or our website! Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/UAANRC/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/UAANRC/</a> Website: <a href="https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/academics/college-of-health/nrc-alaska-native-elders/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/academics/college-of-health/nrc-alaska-native-elders/</a>

Episode 4: Willie Hensley and ANCSA

Jan Harper

This rare group of Alaskan Native and Alaskan writers come together to discuss "Writing the Alaska Native Story". Participants include Jan Harper Haines, author of Cold River Spirits: Whispers from a Family’s Forgotten Past; Lael Morgan author of Eskimo  Star; William L. Iggiagruk Hensley, author of Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People; and Dr. Jeane Breinig—Haida/ Raven, Brown Bear Clan-- (UAA English Dept), co-editor of Alaska Native Writers, Story Tellers &amp; Orator/Alaska Quarterly Review.

This rare group of Alaskan Native and Alaskan writers come together to discuss "Writing the Alaska Native Story". Participants include Jan Harper Haines, author of Cold River Spirits: Whispers from a Family’s Forgotten Past; Lael Morgan author of Eskimo Star; William L. Iggiagruk Hensley, author of Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People; and Dr. Jeane Breinig—Haida/ Raven, Brown Bear Clan-- (UAA English Dept), co-editor of Alaska Native Writers, Story Tellers &amp; Orator/Alaska Quarterly Review.

Writing the Alaska Native Story with Jan Harper Haines, Willie Hensley and others

Paul Ongtooguk

Willie Hensley is known in Alaska as  being a founder for the Northwest Alaska Native Association, NANA Corporation, Alaska Federation of Natives, and having been a member of the Alaska State Legislature for ten years.  His beautifully written memoir, Fifty Miles from Tomorrow, incorporates the richness of Inupiat culture and traditions. those that permeate time and place.  This book is more than one person's story but the story of Alaska and how people have coped with drastic changes. Introducing Willie Hensley is Paul Ongtooguk.

Willie Hensley presents Fifty Miles from Tomorrow with introduction by Paul Ongtooguk