Synopses & Reviews
The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman is a sequel to the delightful story Once Upon an Eskimo Time, which recounts the remarkable life of Minnie and her Eskimo mother as she comes of age in a traditional village on Alaskas western coast. Resuming the tale on the day Minnie encounters her first white man, The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman relates the next century of Minnies adventurous life—painting a picture of early twentieth-century village life as Minnie and her Englishman marry and find the determination, strength, and courage to live life in the face of tragedy, rapidly changing technology, and unrelenting hardship along the Bering Sea. Accompanied by photographs of early Eskimo village life, the narrative poignantly captures a sense of a long-lost way of life on the Seward Peninsula.
Synopsis
The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman is a sequel to the delightful story Once Upon an Eskimo Time, which recounts the remarkable life of Minnie and her Eskimo mother as she comes of age in a traditional village on Alaska's western coast. Resuming the tale on the day Minnie encounters her first white man, The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman relates the next century of Minnie's adventurous life--painting a picture of early twentieth-century village life as Minnie and her Englishman marry and find the determination, strength, and courage to live life in the face of tragedy, rapidly changing technology, and unrelenting hardship along the Bering Sea. Accompanied by photographs of early Eskimo village life, the narrative poignantly captures a sense of a long-lost way of life on the Seward Peninsula.
About the Author
Edna Wilder was born in Bluff, Alaska, a small mining community just northwest of Rocky Point on the Bering Sea. She has instructed classes in skin-sewing and basket-weaving at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks for over twenty years.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsForeword 1. Sammy-Sis-Co2. Oolark's Last Hunt3. Dreadul Illness4. 30-30 Rifle5. Copper Cave6. Golovin Bay Trading Post7. Evil Songs8. White Crackers for Lost Love9. Arthur Samuel Tucker10. Bluff City11. Billy G.12. First Alaskan Hunt13. We Are Going to Be Lost14. Eating Oogruk15. Two Helpless Women16. Working at Port Safety Roadhouse17. One Way to Get a Wife18. Orphaned Reindeer19. Sorrow and Grief20. Two Men Name a Baby21. Big Flu22. Strange Noise23. The Owl's Good-bye24. Brave Woman25. The Spirit Circled Her26. Crane27. No More Bluff City28. Heart Attack29. "Something Terrible Would Happen"30. Death Is Hard31. I Just Take a Look32. Flood of '6733. Round Galvanized Tub34. Please Warn the Fisherman35. Man with a Heart