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Although he never came close to recouping the costs of what it took to pull together an Iditarod team from his prize money, Mike was always there, one of the most popular entrants. As the years passed Mike and I became friendlier and I realized even more what an extraordinary man he was.

Williams deserves to have his life story told, the hardships and difficulties overcome, his rise to Iditarod prominence as one of the race’s key, admired individuals, and for the causes he symbolizes and fights for.

A unique person, one who hunts and fishes and mushes dogs, the same activities his ancestors participated in, Mike lives far from the mainstream of daily American life, four hundred miles from Anchorage, nearly two thousand miles north of Seattle. But he is also someone heavily dependent on a computer and a telephone.

Mike Williams is a man of many parts, a sports figure, a government figure, a leader of his people, a husband, a father, and a Native man with one foot firmly planted in the twenty-first century and another firmly planted in the roots of a culture that dates back 10,000 years in Alaska.