By making mukluks, this Alaskan woman is preserving the Iñupiat

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In many Alaskan communities, it used to be common for Iñupiaq women to teach their daughters how to sew mukluks and crimp the soles, but in recent generations, this process was passed down less and less often, said Mary Lou Sours, a Noatak, Alaska, resident and seamstress.

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