Mush with 10-year old David Salmon and his pet ermine through Gwich'in Athabascan traditional life. In the 1920s, epidemic forced David, today's First Traditional Chief of the Interior, and his father to leave the village and trap for 18 years in No Man's Land. The fur-bearing animals of Alaska were their daily and constant companions.

Alaska's Little Chief is non-fiction, painted in Van Gogh-Alaskan style with illustrated maps, glossary, adn epilogue. Located near today's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska's Little Chief is more than a children's book, it is an experience of traditional wilderness life.