| Perched on a point overlooking the harbor itself, Sven's parent's home reflects
both Alutiiq Eskimo and Russian traditions. A small, homemade bathhouse stands
next to the main building; in the adjacent smokehouse, salmon fillets are
smoked by burning cottonwood logs beneath them. As Marc snapped photos,
Sven. Sr. wryly asked: "Are you going to put us on the cover of Rolling
Stone?"
From the Haakansons' living room window, I look across the narrow channel to
Sitkalidak. Its windswept fields hide many
mysteries: Two years ago, Bill
Fitzhugh and his son, Ben, discovered one of the oldest archaeological
sites on Kodiak Island there. The material they found has led them to
pose a new theory
for human migration to the New World.
 
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