I have 60 years in Alaska and have lived in villages, attended Native Potlucks, and have been  married to an Athabascan woman from Nenana for 23 years.  How many Potlucks and Native funerals have you attended, Mr. Cooper?  Please don't measure Native culture by the survival techniques adopted by Natives trying to migrate from the village subsistence lifestyle to the White man's cash culture found in urban Alaska.  Many of the adaptations like lying and stealing are learned from the White man.