Cecil H. Brown is distinguished research professor emeritus of anthropology and linguistics at Northern Illinois University.Kent G. Lightfoot is distinguished professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.Nancy J. Turner is a distinguished professor emerita in environmental studies, University of Victoria.Dana Lepofsky is professor of archeology at Simon Fraser University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Comparative Approaches in Historical LinguisticsChapter 2: Evaluation of Aleut-Utian Comparative Evidence Chapter 3: Structural Similarity of Aleut and UtianChapter 4: Mitochondrial DNA EvidenceChapter 5: Other Relationship Proposals for Aleut and UtianChapter 6: Along the Way to San Francisco Bay: LoanwordsChapter 7: Ethnobiological SettingChapter 8: Archaeological PerspectiveChapter 9: Culture History Reconstruction Chapter 10: Contributions, Controversies, and Continuing StudyCoda BibliographyIndexAbout the Authors

“This is bold work that challenges a number of orthodoxies in the historical linguistics and anthropology of the Americas using an innovative, inter-disciplinary approach to the study of the connections between ancient populations. By rejecting parochial assumptions about the localism of Indigenous cultures, it is sure to re-ignite debates about the linguistic relations between the First Peoples of Western North America and long-distance migration and dispersion of linguistic groups.”