NAME IT FIRST

Extension

For Alaska Natives

Name the Identity Tensions Shaping Your Hyphenated Life

Alaska Native means something specific. This is where you decide what it means to you.

This is for:

For the Alaska Native person examining what their identity means within their specific community and in relation to a broader context that flattens or misrepresents it.

You'll produce:your Your Alaska Native Identity Charter

The Name It First Experience

Alaska Native identity is specific — to your community, your land, your language, your relationship with a country that controls your political status. This workbook gives you space to define it yourself. The output is not a legal or political designation. It is Your Alaska Native Identity Charter — a stress-tested and signed document on your own terms.

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Sample questions

  1. What tradition, practice, or knowledge in your community do you feel most responsible for preserving?
  2. What does home mean to you — and where or when do you feel it most?
  3. What part of your Alaska Native heritage do you carry most actively into your daily life?
  4. Who has been your greatest teacher — and what have they shown you about how to live?

Research basis

Tribal sovereignty and self-determination frameworks / Berry on acculturation / Alaska Native Studies scholarship on specific community identity and land relationship

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Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.

Print Paperbackpersonalize

A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.

$19.99

eBook + journal

The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.

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Audiobook

We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.

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The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.

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Digital Fill + membership+membership

Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

$9.99

Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership

Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

Full depth

Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

Paper doesn’t change its mind.

Thoughts change. Documents don’t. The answers you write are there when you return — unchanged by memory or mood.

You won’t just feel clearer — you’ll have written proof of what you decided.

Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

Every question is answerable by everyone.

Every question in every title is answerable by the person for whom the assumed experience is true and by the person for whom it is not. No reader is excluded by how a question is built.

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