George, Jean Craighead
Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GEOPaulsen, Gary.
Summary: A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels at odds with aspects of modern life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bradbury Press 1985
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Paulsen 1985Summary: Story of a life-changing experience for a biologist studying the wolves in Canada's inhospitable North. A green young biologist named Tyler (Smith), is sent by the Canadian government to "prove" that the wolves are depleting the caribou herds, but what he finds is a natural world in perfect harmony where he becomes a tolerated outsider. Dumped unprepared in the wilds by a hard drinking bush...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NEVSummary: A young Eskimo boy is taken from his people for medical treatment, and although he returns to the land of his birth, he remains forever lost between 2 cultures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAPO'Dell, Scott
Summary: Bright Dawn must face the challenge of the Iditarod dog sled race alone when her father is injured.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1988
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction O'Dell 1988Summary: Robert Flaherty's classic film tells the story of Inuit hunter Nanook and his family as they struggle to survive in the harsh conditions of Canada's Hudson Bay region. Enormously popular when released in 1922, Nanook of the North is a cinematic milestone that continues to enchant audiences.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Reel Enterprises 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NANLowry, Shannon.
Summary: A collection not only of Curtis' romantic photographs of Aleutian Indians, but also of the folktales and stories Curtis gathered during the 30 years he chronicled Native Americans and their cultures. By today's standards of anthropology, Curtis' images are flawed in that they are more artistic than realistic, yet they are no less intriguing, especially in light of the fact that Curtis died...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 LOWOswalt, Wendell H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 OSWSutton, Mark Q.
Summary: "An Introduction to Native North America provides a basic introduction to the Native peoples of North America, covering what are now the United States, northern Mexico, and Canada. In this updated and revised new edition, Mark Q. Sutton has expanded and improved the existing text, adding to the case studies, updating the text with the latest research, increasing the number of images, providing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 970.004 SUTAlexander, Bryan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crescent Books 1988
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 998 ALEGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: When his older sister Julie brings home two small wolf pups, Amaroq takes care of the one called Nutik and grows to love it, even though Julie tells him it cannot stay.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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Summary: "Profiles accompanied by photographs of ten Alaska Native kids and how they experience the intersection of their cultures and the modern world"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books, an imprint of West Margin Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.8 BROBreece, Hannah
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.1 BREDabcovich, Lydia.
Summary: An old woman adopts and raises a polar bear cub which grows up and provides for her even after she has had to send it away to save it from the jealous men of the village.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DABKizzia, Tom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt and Co. 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 KIZBania, Michael
Summary: On a beautiful Arctic morning when Kumak and his family go ice fishing, Kumak hooks what seems like an enormous fish, and the entire village gets involved.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Wld Cult BaniaGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GEOTaliaferro, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.802 TALRay, Dorothy Jean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published for the University of Alaska Museum by the University of Washington Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 RayGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: Bessie and a polar bear cub named Snow Bear play on the ice, while her older brother and the mother bear watch to make sure that everyone is safe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction George 1999Andrews, Jan.
Summary: When the tide recedes, a young Eskimo girl living in northern Canada journeys alone for the first time under the ice, walking on the seabed floor to gather mussels.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Douglas & McIntyre 2000
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Summary: A group of scientists undertake an expedition to Alaska's Federal Wilderness Zone to study the effects of global warming. The expedition changes suddenly on a routine foray into a glacial ice cave, where the group makes an astonishing find.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC CHIGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014