popular destination for cruise ships and tourists coming to ride the mount roberts tram and visit mendenhall glacier. coming up we continue our special look, at alaska as an author talks about her book alaskanndian: an native memoir." at thes born in juneau edge of the juneau indian village at the end of the second world war. my mother was full-blooded klinkit.-- cleane so ier knew my father, don't know what nationality he klinkit, luckily, the nation follows matrilineal progression, so i belong to the same clan and nation that my .other belongs to when i was a girl growing up in the village, my grandmother taught me songs. when i was young, i had blonde hair. she called me "blonde indian" and taught me a little song and dance and she would dance with me while i sang that song. during that time when i was growing up, juneau was obviously, and of course, a lot smaller than it is now. i think we had one stoplight that only blinked. it didn't really intend to stop any cars. there were not that many cars anyway. i think there was one bus. my aunt irma and uncle george lived very close to where w