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Description edit
For more than fifteen hundred years Yupik and proto-Yupik Eskimo people have lived at the site of the Alaskan village of Gambell on St Lawrence Island. Their history is a record of family and kin, and of the interrelationship between those who live in Gambell and the spiritual world on which... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Rhea: Add a description of this character.
- Yupik
- Estelle
- Gambell
- Edgar Campbell
- Paul Silook
- Marina
- Nathan
- Yugniilqwaaq
- Sara
- Ruth
- Elinor
- James Aningayou
- Henry Collins
- Mary
- Oozevaseuk
- Jonah
- Pelassi
- Lucianna
- Alexander Leighton
- Reuben
- Lawrence Kulukhon
- Charles Hughes
- Beda
- B. Slwooko
- Sheldon Jackson
- Fairbanks
- Dorothea Leighton
- Jorgensen
- Apassingok
- Burridge
- C. Hughes
- John Apangalook
- Belinda
- Willis Walunga
- Otto Geist
- Doty
- Ann Bannan
- Steven
- Anenga
- Herbert
Setting & Locations edit
- St. Lawrence Island
- Jolles
- Sivuqaq Mountain
- Savoonga
- Alaska
- Sivuqaghhmiit
- Kotzebue
- Anchorage
- Siberia
- Iyakitan
- Chukotka
- Pugughileghmiit
- Kukulek
- Bering Sea
- Southwest Cape
- Northwest Cape
- Punuk Islands
- Naayvaq
- Pugughileq
- Pughughileq
- Northeast Cape
- Tapghaq
- United States
First Sentence edit
I often think that for those who were born and raised on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, the landscape itself must be part of their being.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Carol Zane Jolles (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 305.8971407986
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › State & Local › Alaska
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Special Groups › Native American Studies
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Anthropology › Cultural
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Earth-Based Religions › Native American
- Books › History › Americas › Native American
- Books › History › World
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