The article presents a speech by William Iggiagruk Hensley, an Alaskan Inupiaq, delivered at the periodical's symposium "North to the Future: Opportunities and Change in Alaska's Emerging Frontiers" held at the University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska, in October 2014. Topics of the speech included the history of the Alaska natives, indigenous peoples' rights, and the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934.