Blood lines: Sealaska studies Alaska Native descendant dilemma

What makes a person Alaska Native?
Jeremiah James learns to sew marine mammal furs at a workshop sponsored by the Sealaska Heritage Institute. (Photo courtesy Kathy Dye/Sealaska Heritage Institute)In some places, a regulatory definition–known as blood quantum– has superseded cultural ones.
And a new study by the Sealaska Heritage Institute in Juneau tackles how that regulatory definition applies to marine mammal hunters.
According to the federal government, Nathan Soboleff is one-eig