caribou eskimos

Describes two summers spent in the Barrens west of Hudson's Bay among the fast-dying race of Eskimos, the People of the Deer.

A follow-up to "People of the Deer" chronicling the treatment of Canadian Eskimos after 1952 and their struggles for physical and cultural survival.

Presents a memoir in which Farley Mowat recalls his experiences as a member of a scientific expedition to the northern Manitoba in 1947 where he joined young trapper Charles Schweder in trying to provide assistance to Eskimos struggling with small pox and famine.