Английская Википедия:George Attla
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George Attla (August 8, 1933 – February 15, 2015) was a champion sprint dog musher.[1] Attla won ten Anchorage Fur Rendezvous Championships and eight North American Open championships[2] with a career that spanned from 1958 to 2011.[3] Attla was the subject of a 1993 book titled George Attla: The Legend of the Sled-dog Trail, by Lewis "Lew" Freedman.[4]
In 1974 Attla wrote a book titled Everything I Know About Training and Racing Sled Dogs.[5] Attla died of B-cell lymphoma in February 2015.[6]
Major mushing victories and finishes
- Anchorage Fur Rendezvous First place finishes: 1958, 1962, 1968, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, and 1982.[7]
- Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race In 1973 Attla placed fourth in the inaugural Iditarod.[8]
Legacy
- On April 25, 1998, the governor of Alaska, Steve Cowper, declared April 29 as George Attla Day.[9]
- Attla was the focus of the movie Spirit of the Wind.[10]
- He inspired the 2017 single "You Got to Run (Spirit of the Wind)", a collaboration between Buffy Sainte-Marie and Tanya Tagaq.[11]
References
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- ↑ Queens of Indigenous Music Buffy Ste-Marie and Tanya Tagaq Unite for “You Got To Run (Spirit Of The Wind)” Шаблон:Webarchive. RPM.fm, February 22, 2017.
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