inuit

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Topical Term
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inuit

Go home, river

1996
In 1875, a young Inupiat boy travels the length of the Kobuk River with his family, from its source in the mountains of northern Alaska to Kotzebue Sound, where they join others for an annual trade fair.

Shadow bear

1981
An Eskimo child and a polar bear cub encounter each other's shadows, made tall in the sun, and while running away in fear, come to realize the other one is also scared.

Eskimos

1978
Portrays aspects of Eskimo life such as food, housing, clothing, work roles, hunting methods, recreations, and changing ways.

Fatty legs

a true story
2010
Margaret Pokiak-Fenton tells the story of her experiences as an eight-year-old Inuit girl in a church-run school in Aklavik, Canada, where her strong will made her the target of a mean-spirited nun.

Julie of the wolves

1987
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

I am the ice worm

1996
While traveling to visit her mother in the Arctic a California girl learns the meaning of hardship and survival when she is taken in by an Inuit family.

The dancing fox

Arctic folktales
1997
A description of Inuit culture accompanies a collection of eighteen Inuit folktales from an ancient oral tradition in which animals could take human form and in which magic usually had a part.

Sedna

an Eskimo myth
1975
Sedna, mother of all sea animals, tells the story of her life and helps the starving Inuit.

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