Focuses on the teachings, experience, and practical wisdom of expert Native orators as they instruct a younger generation about their place in the world. Translated, edited, and organized for a general audience, this bilingual edition is for those who want to know not only what the elders have to say, but also how they say it.

Translated, edited, and organized for a general audience, this bilingual edition is for those who want to know not only what the elders have to say, but also how they say it. Ann Fienup-Riordan is an independent scholar who has lived, worked, and taught in Alaska since 1973. Her many books include "Hunting Tradition in a Changing World: Yup'ik Lives in Alaska Today" and "Yup'ik Elders at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin: Fieldwork Turned on Its Head". Alice Rearden is a Yup'ik speaker and translator working for the Calista Elders Council. Marie Meade is a Yup'ik language expert presently teaching at the University of Alaska Anchorage.