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Tuesday
Sep102013

Cross Island elder keeps his mind young

DateTuesday, September 10, 2013 at 2:10PM

Willie Seilak, at 63 the eldest whaler on the island. He came to Cross with the late Thomas Napageak in 1973 after the Iñupiat of this area who had been dispersed decades earlier came back to rebuild their community in the new village of Nuiqsut. "I think of myself as a young man. I am young at heart."

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