Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
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and the wild reindeer
called caribou.

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Where frozen tundra
limits vegetation, meat is life.

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Most of the year,
it is kill or starve.

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The hunters prosper here
across millennia

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but as the receding lce Age
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opens the wall of glaciers
to the south

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most move on with the herds
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into the virgin continents
beyond.

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Their descendants will become
Apache and Sioux, Aztec and Maya

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lnca and Amazonian.
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yet some remain in Alaska.
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For them, this is a world of
mysterious forces and spirits.

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To science,
the Aurora Borealis is created

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by streams of charged particles
from the sun

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colliding with the atmosphere.
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To some Native Americans,
the Northern Lights

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were children not yet born
at play in the heavens.


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