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  • Elders pass along self-reliance to Nanwalek youth

    Kby Naomi Klouda
    Homer, Alaska (AP)

    Irene Tanape recalls speaking only Segtestun while she was growing up in Nanwalek. In fact, once when she approached a young English-speaking child to play, she didn't know anything to say in English other than, “Johnson and Johnson?”

    “She nodded at me and we played,” Tanape remembered. “I don’t know where I learned that – Johnson and Johnson – but I thought it meant to play.”

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