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IN ARCTIC VILLAGE, high in the Alaskan tundra on the edge of the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge, the Gwich’in people are trying to hold their culture
together. They have just completed a new written version of their language. It
will be taught in a school where a generation ago the use of Gwich’in was
discouraged by the Alaskan government. They have resisted plans for a road to
the village, and prohibited alcohol. Most of all, like the rest of the 7000
Gwich’in people in the mountain villages across Alaska and north-west Canada,
they are determined to keep their tradition of…