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—Lew Freedman
CHAPTER 1
My family has been in the area of Akiak for about 10,000 years. Always. We’ve been here from time immemorial. My father’s name was Timothy Williams. His father was Peter Williams. My father was a chief and Peter Williams was a chief of the tribes here, the Akiak Koliganek.
Koliganek, that’s where we were in the beginning. There is a story about the reason why Akiak became Akiak. A couple raised a brown bear from a little cub. The brown bear grew up in the village of Koliganek, but wanted the couple to move across the Kuskokwim River. The word Akiak means “across.”
The couple did not want to give up the bear so the couple moved across the river because the bear was getting too big and was dangerous to the community. So that’s how Akiak became Akiak. The bear grew up to be an adult and nobody would harm that bear. Eventually the bear left the village of Akiak and when people went out hunting they recognized that bear and would never shoot it because it was part of their community, part of the family of Akiak.