And looking at the cover of your book, I see them gathered as if in a piazza of tundra together, a community of caribou. And as we prepare to take that trip to Alaska and experience nature so vividly, people can read your book, A Thousand Trails Home, Living with Caribou. Seth Kanter, thank you so much for sharing your corner of the world with us today on Travel with Rick Steves. You're welcome, Rick. I hope to see you up here. I think you will. Seth Kanter describes the pressures of being seen as an outsider to the local culture where he grew up in the Arctic in an extra to today's interview. It's posted at Ricksteves.com. In her just concluded term as the Washington State Poet Laureate, Reena Priest made it her goal to celebrate the poetry of the state's tribal communities and to strengthen our resolve to appreciate and protect the natural world. Reena is a member of the Lummi Nation, and her most recent poetry collection is called Sublime Subliminal. She joined us in our travel with Rick Steves studio to read a poem she wrote about the salmon that are a mainstay of the indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest.

Focus and Circulae, Songs on the Salmon Scale. A salmon is a song sung in rounds, a series of concentric circles like a raindrop on the sea, rippling out and returning, a series of concentric circles, a chorus and a verse rippling out and returning in a shining body of treasure, a chorus and a verse, a hero, home from adventure, a shining body of treasure, bearing gifts from the deep, a hero, home from adventure, like a

raindrop on the sea, bearing gifts from the deep, a salmon is a song sung in rounds. Travel with Rick Steves is produced at Rick Steves Europe in Edmonds, Washington by Tim Tapp and Kazmuro Hall and Donna Bardsley. Affiliate relations are by Sheila Gerzov. Website uploads are managed by Andrew Wakeling, Jerry Frank wrote and performed our theme music. Thanks to Robert Frazier at Feature Story News in Washington for Studio Help This Week, and we'll look for you again next week with another travel with Rick Steves.

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