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Describing the centuries-long practice by people in the Arctic of building igloos for shelter, an illustrated introduction demonstrates how igloos are built from carefully constructed ice blocks.

When Margaret Pokiak was very young, she traveled with her father from her home in the High Arctic to Aklavik. The Inuit girl was mesmerized by what she saw there- strange dark-cloaked nuns and pale-skinned priests who had journeyed fro far-off lands. This is a powerful and moving autobiographical account, set in the 1940s, of one headstrong girl from an Inuvialuit community in the Arctic Circle. Margaret desperately wished to attend one of the...

Describes the culture, religion, and daily life of the Eskimos, explains their family and community relationships, and looks at tools, masks, clothings, and carvings

"A history of the people and events that influenced the North American Indian tribe known as the Inuit, including the Inuit Circumpolar Council and conflicts such as early encounters with Europeans on Baffin Island"--

The author shares her experiences living among the Eskimos of northwest Greenland with her polar-explorer husband and infant daughter.

Photographs and simple text introduce young readers to the Inuits of Canada, discussing how they have learned to use the natural resources around them to make food, tools, weapons, warm clothing, houses, and artwork.

Jamie, an orphan who must leave his upper-class boarding school to live with an uncle in the wilderness of Manitoba, Canada, has no idea of the incredible adventure that awaits him. During a hunting trip, he and Awasis, a Native American Indian boy, become separated from the group. Finding themselves lost and alone in the icy and dreaded wilderness called The Barrens, their struggle to survive against impending doom strips away their prejudice toward...

An Inuit man (Ungalaaq) is accused of the brutal double murder of his mother and brother. When he is questioned, he has no memory of the crime. His big city lawyer (Priestley) tries to find a defense that will set his client free, but soon discovers himself embroiled in a shadowy world of ancient myths, rituals and supersition. Together with a psychiatrist (Booth), he tries to unravel the mystery and save his client, but the defense team quickly...

Folk tales representative of the northernmost state of the United States, from its two native peoples, the Indians and the Eskimos.