George Attla

George Attla (August 8, 1933 – February 15, 2015) was a champion sprint dog musher. Attla won ten Anchorage Fur Rendezvous Championships and eight North American Open championships with a career that spanned from 1958 to 2011. Attla was the subject of a 1993 book titled George Attla: The Legend of the Sled-dog Trail, by Lewis "Lew" Freedman.

In 1974 Attla wrote a book titled Everything I Know About Training and Racing Sled Dogs. Attla died of B-cell lymphoma in February 2015.

Major mushing victories and finishes

 * Anchorage Fur Rendezvous First place finishes: 1958, 1962, 1968, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, and 1982.
 * Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race In 1973 Attla placed fourth in the inaugural Iditarod.

Legacy

 * On April 25, 1998, the governor of Alaska, Steve Cowper, declared April 29 as George Attla Day.
 * Attla was the focus of the movie Spirit of the Wind.
 * He inspired the 2017 single "You Got to Run (Spirit of the Wind)", a collaboration between Buffy Sainte-Marie and Tanya Tagaq.