ABSTRACT
Victoria Hykes Steere played Risk with Jewish students from New York, became friends with French Canadians, Italians from Jersey, Irish Catholics from the Boston area, and found many of the Mayflower blue bloods pretentious and boring. Cherryl introduced Victoria Hykes Steere to Linda and Graham and taught her about women who gather as friends to address the needs of their community. The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) created state chartered for profit corporations. Furthermore, Alaska was on the list of non-self-governing territories with the right of nationhood. The proposal used community-based participatory research, which was unheard of in Alaska at the time and outside of traditional knowledge gathering. Victoria Hykes Steere worked with Michelle Davis to call attention to contaminants in traditional foods. A panel of federal, state, and other entities, including Michelle and Victoria Hykes Steere, began meeting to discuss how to address contaminants in traditional foods.
