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"When you're out on the ice, jumping from ice floe to ice floe, or out hunting, you have to rely on your own personal skill in order to survive," said Olympics Chairman Perry Ahsogeak, who is Inupiaq Eskimo. "These games provide you that skill."
"I just saw some people that I haven't seen in 10 or 15 years," said 31-year-old Gloria Lockwood, who works in the Arctic oil fields of the North Slope. "I really needed a vacation, but this is close enough.""A lot of the events are from up north area and we never lived up there," said his mother, Connie Burnell of Big Lake, 50 miles north of Anchorage. "This is a way for them to connect to that." Burnell was referring to her family's ancestral home near the town of Kotzebue, just inside the Arctic Circle on the western Alaska coast.See the full content of this document
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Games a Lesson in Survival of Traditions
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - With four grown men hanging like rag dolls from his 340-lb. frame, Demetrius VanFleet lumbers nearly 100 feet before weariness sets in.
The crowd at the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics clearly approves, barking like seals and clapping until VanFleet, a...See the full content of this document
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