Josiah Aullaqsruaq Patkotak (born March 22, 1994) is an Iñupiaq politician from Alaska. He has represented District 40 as a Member of the

Alaska House of Representatives The Alaska State House of Representatives is the lower house in the Alaska Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alaska. The House is composed of 40 members, each of whom represents a district of approximately 17,756 people per ...

since

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. Patkotak defeated another Iñupiaq candidate, Elizabeth Niiqsik Ferguson (D), for the seat by a margin of 200 votes following the retirement of John Lincoln. Patkotak is registered as an

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. He also played the lead role in Andrew Okpeaha MacLean's

On the Ice ''On the Ice'' is a 2011 American drama film written and directed by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean. The film is set in (and was shot on location in) Utqiagvik, Alaska, MacLean's home town, and follows two Iñupiaq teenagers who, while on a seal hunt, a ...

(2011).

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