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Alaska Native elder saves boy
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2002

A 78-year-old Alaska Native elder recently rescued a 7-year-old boy from a river, The Anchorage Daily News reports.

Mike Uttereyuk saw that Marcus Kaganak was floating away on the Kun River, which empties into the Bering Sea. So Uttereyuk got in a small aluminum rowboat to save the boy.

But Uttereyuk couldn't fit the boy on the small rowboat. So he wrapped a line under Kaganak and held it in his teeth as he rowed back to shore.

Kaganak was not hurt. Uttereyuk's teeth are doing fine.

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Elder puts his teeth into rescue of boy in icy river (The Anchorage Daily News 11/16)