Alaska: For decades, she blamed herself for the abuse. Writing her story was an act of survival....

For decades, she blamed herself for the abuse. Writing her story was an act of survival. Publishing it was an act of rebellion.

She was still small enough to climb on her mother’s back, too little to step from the family boat without help, when the violations began. “Touching games” led by older men with big smiles at her family’s fish camp, across the water from Kotzebue, a regional hub of 3,000 people known as the “gateway to the Arctic.” From those early years into her adulthood in distant Anchorage, Tia Wakolee, 46, says she was molested, raped or stalked nearly 30 times. She never reported the abuse to law enforcement. The act of reporting assumes you know you were wronged. As a ...

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