Books of Eskimos

  • Black Star, Bright Dawn
    By Scott O'Dell

    Bright Dawn must face the challenge of the Iditarod dog sled race alone when her father is injured.

  • Inua: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo
    By William W. Fitzhugh

    Book to accompany an exhibition of Bering Sea Eskimo art collected by Edward William Nelson and now housed in the Dept. of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

  • The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman
    By Edna Wilder

    White. Crackers. for. Lost. Love. When. the next summer passed and George Daniels had not returned, Nedercook and her mother moved back to their inne at the village of Rocky Point. She continued to sew, hunt, and learned to shoot ...

  • Naaman's Quest

    The head chef of the Diller Hotel was a man named Malcolm McDonald. Malcolm had left his seaport home in Dundee, Scotland, twelve years ago. Not finding the east coast of America to his liking, he had travelled by railroad to Seattle in ...

  • The Native Americans: The Indigenous People of North America
    By Colin F. Taylor, William C. Sturtevant

    An in-depth visual survey of Native American life is divided into nine cultural areas and discusses their traditions, political and spiritual leaders, and the impact of European settlement on native societies.

  • Drawing Shadows to Stones: The Photography of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, (1871-1902)
    By Miller, Barbara, Laurel Kendall

    US anthropology's foremost 19th century ethnographic expedition studying the origin of the American Indians serves as a focal point for debatable interpretations of such images as cultural

  • The Last and First Eskimos
    By Robert Coles, Alex Harris

    Photographs of Alaskan Eskimos with commentary discussing the changes in their traditional lifestyles.

  • Beluga Hunters: An Archaeological Reconstruction of the History and Culture of the Mackenzie Delta Kittegaryumiut
    By Canadian Museum of Civilization, Robert McGhee

    Nets made with the 60 mm gauges may have been used for gill - netting whitefish or inconnu . Net Float : Of 36 net floats found ... pebble from M - 5 ( Pl . 22k ) is notched in the middle of both sides . Notched stone sinkers are found ...

  • Polar Bear
    By Jill Bailey

    Describes how polar bears live, efforts to save them from extinction, and their role in the Inuit way of life.

  • Pueblos cazadores del Artico
    By Roger Frison-Roche

    Pueblos cazadores del Artico

  • The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: North America
    By Richard E. W. Adams, Stuart B. Schwartz, Wilcomb E. Washburn

    The Calumet Dance Ceremony , which had prehistoric origins , was diffused from Caddoans to the Southern Siouans and ... The Iroquois Eagle Dance : An Offshoot of the Calumet Dance , ” Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 156 ( 1953 ) .

  • Julie of the Wolves
    By Jean Craighead George

    This text is also useful for SLPs who work with children with hearing loss, as well as for pediatricians and otolaryngologists.

  • Then Fight for It!: The Largest Peaceful Redistribution of Wealth in the History of Mankind and the Creation of the...
    By Fred Paul

    The largest peaceful redistribution of wealth in the history of mankind by Native American activists and the creation of the North Slope Borough in Alaska by Fred Paul.

  • The Eye of the Needle

    Sent out by his grandmother to find food, Amik consumes a series of animals of ever-increasing size and brings back more than he thinks.

  • The Inuits
    By Shirlee Petkin Newman

    Provides a look at the history, culture, and daily life of th Inuit people who live in the Arctic regions of the world, focusing on those living in North America.

  • Portraits of Native Americans
    By Ian West

    A treasury of turn-of-the-century Native American photographs features one or more members from each of the tribes in the nine cultural regions of North America, and provides accompanying information about language, lifestyle, and culture.

  • Aboriginal Law
    By Thomas Isaac

    "The changes in Canadian law relating to the constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and treaty rights is rapidly changing and is unprecedented in its scope and the speed at which change is occuring.

  • Native People, Native Lands: Canadian Indians, Inuit and Metis
    By Bruce Alden Cox

    This collection of timely essays by Canadian scholars explores the fundamental link between the development of aboriginal culture and economic patterns.

  • Village Journey: The Report of the Alaska Native Review Commission
    By Thomas R. Berger, Alaska Native Review Commission

    The author's new Preface deals with problems still facing Alaska Natives and their corporations. This is a new release of the book published in May 1995.

  • Black Star, Bright Dawn
    By Scott O'Dell

    Bright Dawn must face the challenge of the Iditarod dog sled race alone when her father is injured.