Author and native community connector, llarion (Larry) Merculieff has almost four decades' of experience serving his people, the Aleuts of the Pribilof Islands and other indigenous peoples. He has been City Manager of St. Paul Island, Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Commerce and Economic Development, President and CEO of Tanadgusix Corporation, Chairman of the Board of The Aleut Corporation, and General Manager of the Central Bering Sea Fishermen's Association (one of the six Community Development Quota groups created by Congress to receive fish allocations in Alaska). As Director of the Department of Public Policy and Advocacy in the Rural Alaska Community Action Program, he led the largest subsistence rights march in Alaska's history.