A little Eskimo boy starts out on a quest to discover what's on the other side of the great frozen lake and to find out if he'll be a great hunter when he grows up.
True story of Hannah Breece, her struggle to establish federally funded schools in remote areas of Alaska, and her adventures in the world of frontier Alaska, trying to teach native Alaskan children to become Americans.
"A long time ago and very far away, Miki, Polar Bear and Penguin lived in a place that was always cold and dark. Until, on Midwinter Eve a magical underwater journey gives Miki an everlasting light"--Back cover.
A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across the ice, tundra, and mountains seking his own "song" of himself.
In 1848, ten-year-old Toozak, a Yupik Eskimo, sees a whale being born and is told by a shaman that he and his descendants must protect that whale, which Toozak names Siku, as long as it lives.
