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The best part is that the beer bottle goes the other way to pour.

I can't speak for the alaska natives themselves, but they did setup a interesting system to make sure that they arent completely screwed.

The native tribes incorporated and own companies (that are usually ran by old white guys) due to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. I worked for one such company, ASRC - Arctic slope regional corporation. Basically if you are an Alaska native, you become a stockholder in this company based on your %-age of that tribal group. So a 100% inupiat native would get 100 stocks. These stocks give them passive income and allow them to continue to live in their villages but able to participate in the "outside" capalistic world. When i worked at the slope, BP was required to hire i think 10% natives overall, and some of my native coworkers were saying they made 30-40k a year from just being a native.

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There isnt much weird stuff up there at the actual oil field. It's a pretty built up system that has been improved upon since the 70's.

about 2,000-5,000 people are working up there at once. So lots of cafeterias and stuff setup. I've even had King Crab, Filet Mignon, etc during special events and holiday dinners. So its nothing too different from like a school or large corporate cafeteria.

You could go to the native villages and eat some of the traditional native stuff like muktuk (whale blubber) and maybe get some caribou meat.

Its about a 2 hour flight from Anchorage.
I worked 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off while there. So while i had the 2hr flight every 2 weeks, i could walk to my work site from my dorm room.