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   ocr: were pressured to accept Orthodox Christianity by their Russian overlords; they neverthe- less maintained their own religious practices. Jochelson was a member of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, the Museum's first great expedition across the North Pacific Rim, from the Pacific North-west deep into Asia. The purpose of the expedition was to test the theory that Native Americans first came to North America across the Bering Strait from northeast Siberia thousands of years ago. Thanks to the work of people like Jochelson and of the many 56