Once upon an Eskimo time / Edna Wilder.
Material type: TextPublication details: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 183 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9781602231146
- 1602231141
- Tucker, Minnie, approximately 1858-1979
- Wilder, Edna, 1916-2011 -- Family
- Tucker, Minnie, approximately 1858-1979
- Wilder, Edna, 1916-2011
- Eskimos -- Alaska -- Biography
- Eskimo women -- Alaska -- Biography
- Eskimos -- Alaska -- Social life and customs
- Seward Peninsula (Alaska) -- Biography
- Seward Peninsula (Alaska) -- Social life and customs
- Inuits -- Alaska -- Biographies
- Inuits -- Alaska -- Mœurs et coutumes
- Seward, Péninsule de (Alaska) -- Biographies
- Seward, Péninsule de (Alaska) -- Mœurs et coutumes
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
- HISTORY -- State & Local -- General
- Eskimo women
- Eskimos
- Eskimos -- Social life and customs
- Families
- Manners and customs
- Alaska
- Alaska -- Seward Peninsula
- 979.8004/971 B 22
- E99.E7 T838 2009eb
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Foreword; Introduction; Description of an Inne ; List of Characters and names; 1. First Goose; 2. Miracle Man; 3. Squirrel Hunting; 4. Bear; 5. Nedercook's Enjoyment; 6. Eggs; 7. Women of the Sea; 8. Salmon Fishing Time; 9. Killer Whale; 10. Beluga Whale; 11. Farewell, Murres; 12. Colder Nights; 13. Winter Storm; 14. Big Black Duck; 15. Festival Time; 16. Marriage; 17. Under-Ice Net; 18. Nedercook Hurt; 19. Oopick Dies; 20. Barter; 21. Nedercook's Birth; 22. Seal Hunting; 23. Baby; 24. Catching Murres; 25. Rocks; 26. Spring.
Continuing the sacred tradition of her ancestors, in Once Upon an Eskimo Time Edna Wilder retells a year in her Eskimo mother's life. Wilder eloquently captures the oral storytelling traditions of her people, and she employs descriptions of the weather and harsh climates of Alaska's Norton Sound to illustrate the hardiness of her mother's spirit. Family values, subsistence living, and the cycle's of life form a narrative that captures the now-vanished lifestyle along the Bering Sea. "Readers of whatever age will enjoy Nedercook's delightful account of the day-to-day, legends, and be.
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