Pick a year; 1945, 1965, or 1985 . You live somewhere in the territory that is or would become the United States of America. What is your life like? What do you do? Where do you work? Where do you...

Alaska In 1985: Snippets From A Journal                            
ALASKA IN 1985: SNIPPETS FROM A JOURNAL
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July 2, 1985
Another sleepless night! I cannot contain the excitement. I shall be off to Philadelphia with my university friends in a few days. We will hitchhike our way to the destination. It should take us around 4-5 days to reach, provided we get some kind people giving us a lift. There will be four of us. So getting a big van or truck will be great. It is comparatively easy to reach Philadelphia from Anchorage, from our university campus; it is well connected. Getting on a plane is absolutely beyond our means. We have been saving for a couple of months now. I still cannot believe I will be watching my favorite rock and pop artists performing live at the Live Aid Concert. We, of course, plan to roam around the city too. My parents are not very comfortable with the plan. Since my childhood, I have never been out of Anchorage. But my university days will be over by the following year. Hence, the plan. We have all heard so much about the concert raising funds for the starving people in Ethiopia. Now it is our chance to listen to Elton John, Jagger, Madonna, and Clapton and also be a part of this worldwide fundraising opportunity. I could not miss… My name is Nanurjuk, and I am an Alaskan native.
Nanurjuk is a common, unisex Inuit name. It means the star. Please do not ask me the reason behind it; I guess, it was the love and admiration of my parents for whom I am their star. As you must have guessed, I come from an Inuit ancestry, but do not ask me what I call myself. I think I am more American than my parents can ever be. My forefathers lived in this vast, icy region of the now U.S. state of Alaska. That was when they were free to roam these endless swathes of frozen land, leading their hunting-gathering lives in peace, living in perfect harmony with nature. This was when Europeans were only traveling traders from another continent. However, everything changed when first the Russians colonized our people, sometime in the seventeenth century, followed by Spanish invaders, and finally, in the late nineteenth century, the then President of the United States of America appointed a governor for the whole of...