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Alaska Native Art: Tradition, Innovation, Continuity
by Susan W. Fair  Publisher Comments The rich artistic traditions of Alaska Natives are the subject of this landmark volume, which examines the work of the premier Alaska artists of teh twentieth century. Ranging across the state from the islands of the Bering Sea...
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The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic (Vintage)
by Melanie Mcgrath Publisher Comments In 1932, the Canadian government forcibly relocated three dozen Inuit from their flourishing home on the Hudson Bay to the barren, arctic landscape of Ellesmere Island, the most northerly landmass on the planet. Among this group was Josephie Flaherty...
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Crow in Stolen Colors
by Marcia Simpson Publisher Comments What's not to like? Wrangell, Alaska, rich in scenery, laden with native lore. A child who's not cute but sturdily self reliant. No victim, although needing shelter, James has been prepared by his grandfather for the weight of tribal responsibility. He...
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The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic
by Melanie McGrath 
Powells.com 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...
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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,...
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The Last Light Breaking: Living Among Alaska's Inupiat Eskimos
by Nick Jans Publisher Comments In breathtaking prose, Alaskan writer and teacher Nick Jans offers an insider's perspective on America's last great wilderness and its northernmost people, the Inupiat Eskimos....
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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....
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Eskimo Essays: Yup'ik Lives and How We See Them
by Ann Fienup Riordan Publisher Comments A wonderful gift to all Alaskans and to thinking people everywhere. --Alaska History Eskimo Essays introduces the reader to important aspects of the ideology and practice of the Yup'ik Eskimos of western Alaska, past and present.The essays point the way...
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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....
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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....
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Alaska native arts and crafts
by Susan W Fair Synopsis Alaska Geographic is an award-winning series that presents the people, places, and wonders of Alaska to the world. Over the past 30 years, Alaska Geographic has earned its reputation as the publication for those who love Alaska. The series boasts more...
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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...
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North Alaska Chronicle: Notes from the End of Time
by John Marti Campbell Publisher Comments An extraordinary ethnographic work presenting Eskimo tribesman Simon Paneak's detailed drawings of his native culture and lifeways at the point when they began their irreversible clash with 20th-century modernism. 100 photos & drawings....
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I Am Eskimo: Aknik My Name
by Paul Green Publisher Comments A half century ago, Inupiat Eskimo Paul Green was dismayed by a writer who arrived in his village, stayed briefly, then flew home to print nonsense. So Green began writing down his own stories--about his life, Native foods, legends, games, animal habits,...
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Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo
by Hinrich Rink Publisher Comments Folklore, myths, and legends compiled by a 19th century explorer offer intriguing glimpses of an unspoiled culture. This treasury of 150 stories constitutes a priceless reference for anthropologists and historians and a delight for aficionados of...
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On the Edge of Nowhere
by James Huntington Publisher Comments His father is a white trapper, his mother an Athabascan Indian who walks a thousand miles in winter to reunite with her family. Thus, Jimmy Huntington learns early how to survive on the land. When his mother dies, Huntington -- at age seven -- must care...
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Raven & the Totem 2ND Edition
by John Smelcer Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references ( p. 137-145) and index....
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Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo
by Kenn Harper
Synopsis In a story that is peopled with well-known explorers, including Robert Peary, "Give Me My Father's Body" tells the tragic tale of Minik Wallace, "a live Eskimo specimen, " who was orphaned in turn-of-the-century New York. 36 photos. Map....
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Drawing Shadows to Stone: The Photography of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902
by Laurel Kendall Publisher Comments "The Yukaghir people of northeastern Siberia, seeing a camera for the first time, called it 'the three-legged device that draws a person's shadow to stone.' The three legs were the tripod, and the shadow drawn to stone was the image inscribed onto the...
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The Song and the Silence: Sitting Wind: The Life of Stoney Indian Chief Frank Kaquitts
by Peter Jonker Synopsis The story of Frank Kaquitts's fascinating but challenging life includes his time as an actor, when he played Sitting Bull opposite Paul Newman in Buffalo Bill and the Indians. This award-winning biography explores cultural differences with eloquence and...
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