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Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska by William W. Fitzhugh and Aron Crowell Publisher Comments Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name organized by the National Museum of Natural History and circulated by the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service, this book "includes thirty-six...illustrated articles by American and Soviet... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Hunters of the Northern Forest by Time Life Publisher Comments History, customs, mythology, and lore of the continent's first inhabitants are inter-woven in this rich new look at our Native American heritage. Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, paintings, drawings, and artifacts.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Among the Inuit by Robert Semeniuk Synopsis While on assignment for National Geographic, distinguished photojournalist Robert Semeniuk spent two years with the Inuit. Facing one of the harshest environments on Earth, Semeniuk lived in a canvas tent with a family of nine, witnessing firsthand the... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Island Within by Richard K Nelson Publisher Comments Here is Nelson's luminously wise account of his exploration of an unnamed island in the Pacific Northwest. This book revises our own relationship with nature, allowing us to observe it and also to participate in it with reverence and a sense of wonder.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Native People, Native Lands by Bruce Alden Cox Publisher Comments This collection of timely essays by Canadian scholars explores the fundamental link between the development of aboriginal culture and economic patterns. The contributors draw on original research to discuss Megaprojects in the North, the changing role of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bashful No Longer: An Alaskan Eskimo Ethnohistory, 1778-1988 (Civilization of the American Indian) by Wendell H Oswalt Publisher Comments Traditionally the Kuskokwim Eskimos of southwestern Alaska valued restraint, modesty, and deference—traits for which they adopted the English word bashful. However, since their first encounter with Western culture two hundred years have passed... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Authentic Alaska: Voices of Its Native Writers (American Indian Lives) by Susan B Andrews Publisher Comments In this lively and sometimes poignant collection of essays and autobiographies, nearly fifty Alaska Native writers tell of their unique way of life and bear witness to the sweeping cultural changes occurring in their lifetimes. They explore a range... (read more) List Price $19.25 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Neeluk: An Eskimo Boy in the Days of the Whaling Ships by Frances Kittredge Publisher Comments Weaving history, art, and literature, these stories follow a young Inupiat Eskimo boy through a year of his life at the turn of the last century.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People by Arthur J Ray Synopsis Arthur J. Ray describes the various economic arrangements Native men and women entered into with newcomers, the assault on Native culture in the Industrial Age, and the relentless efforts of Native groups to find a place in the new world order.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Living with Koryak Traditions: Playing with Culture in Siberia by Alexander David King Publisher Comments What does it mean to be a traditional Koryak in the modern world? How do indigenous Siberians express a culture that entails distinctive customs and traditions? For decades these people, who live on the Kamchatka Peninsula in northeastern Siberia, have... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Qaluyaarmiuni Nunamtenek Qanemciput / Our Nelson Island Stories: Meanings of Place on the Bering Sea Coast by Alice Rearden Publisher Comments In this volume Nelson Island elders describe hundreds of traditionally important places in the landscape, from camp and village sites to tiny sloughs and deep ocean channels, contextualizing them through stories of how people interacted with them in the... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $28.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Yupiit Yuraryarait: Yup'ik Ways of Dancing [With DVD] by James H. Barker Publisher Comments Far more than just a dance, the dynamic choreography of the Yup’ik provides an illuminating window into the morality, social organization, and colonial history of this indigenous people. In Yupiit Yurayarait, anthropologist Ann Fienup... (read more) Your price: $50.00 New - Hardcover
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The White Dawn (Harvest Book) by James Houston Publisher Comments In 1896, three survivors from a whaling misadventure are nursed back to health by Eskimo villagers who share their food, women, and way of life with the strangers. In return, the foreigners introduce to the villagers the spirit of competitiveness that... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Living on the Land Change Among the Inui by John Matthiasson Publisher Comments As recently as three decades ago most Inuit lived a lifestyle much like that of their forbearers: living on the land, with the men hunting according to time-honoured methods and the women performing the same round of daily tasks that their grandmothers... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reading Voices, Dan Dha Ts'edenintth'e: Oral and Written Interpretations of the Yukon's Past by Julie Cruikshank Synopsis In the Yukon indigenous and colonial cultures persist with extraordinary vigor side by side. Reading Voices is a book about oral and written traditions in such a world. Key themes and episodes in recent Yukon history -- the coming of Europeans, the fur... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic by Melanie McGrath Staff Pick In her account of the forced relocation of the Inuit people, Melanie McGrath illuminates the Inuit's quiet grace, their respect for their surroundings, and their ability to live in the most unforgiving environments. Unlike the portrait painted by the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bloody Falls of the Coppermine: Madness, Murder, and the Collision of Cultures in the Arctic, 1913 by Mckay Jenkins Publisher Comments In the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, two Catholic priests set out on a dangerous mission to do what no white men had ever attempted: reach a group of utterly isolated Eskimos and convert them. Farther and farther north the priests trudged,... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Winter Walk: A Century-Old Survival Story from the Arctic by Loretta Outwate Cox Publisher Comments The year is 1892. An Inupiat Eskimo mother finds herself far from the village at winter camp. And now her husband has died. Although Qutuuq (coo-took) is far along in pregnancy, and her children are only seven and nine, the little family sets out toward... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Place of the Pretend People: Gifts from a Yup'ik Village by Carolyn Kremers Publisher Comments This stunning collection of essays was written by a teacher reflecting on her changed life in the Yup'ik Eskimo village of Tununak.... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Agayuliyararput: Kegginaqut, Kangiit-Llu = Our Way of Making Prayer: Yup'ik Masks and the Stories They Tell by Marie Meade Publisher Comments Drawing on the remembrances of elders who were born in the early 1900s and saw the last masked Yup'ik dances before missionary efforts forced their decline, Agayuliyararput is a collection of first-person accounts of the rich culture surrounding Yup'ik... (read more) List Price $33.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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