The Last Light Breaking
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The Last Light Breaking

Living Among Alaska's Inupiat Eskimos

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The Last Light Breaking

Living Among Alaska's Inupiat Eskimos

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From his home in remote Eskimo Village, Nick Jans leads us into a vast, magical world: Alaska's Brooks Range. Drawn from fourteen years of arctic experience, The Last Light Breaking offers a rare perspective on America's last great wilderness and its people--the Inupiat Natives, an ancient culture on the cusp of change. Making a poignant connection between the world he describes and the world of the Inupiat once knew, Nick Jans invokes with stunning power, the life of the Eskimos in the harsh arctic and the mystical aura of the wilderness of the farNorth. With the eye of an outdoorsman and the heart of a poet, Jans weaves together these 23 essays with strands of native American narrative, making vivid a place where wolves and grizzlies still roam free, hunters follow the caribou, and old women cast their nets in the dust as they have for countless generations. But looming on the horizon is the world of roads and modern technology; the future has already arrived in the form of stop signs, computers, and satellite dishes. Jans creates unforgettable images of a proud people facing an uncertain future, and of his own journey through this haunting timeless landscape.

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Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books
Year
2013
ISBN
9780882408651
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Map
  8. Getting Here
  9. Ambler Trading
  10. Black River Autumn
  11. Two Worlds, One Spirit
  12. My Last Grizzly
  13. Arctic Heroes
  14. The River of Their Passing
  15. Beat the Qaaviks
  16. Running with the Wolves
  17. A Place Beyond
  18. What They Leave Behind
  19. Sheefish Time
  20. The Old Man’s Winter
  21. A Trip to the Stort
  22. Housekeeping in the Northwest Arctic
  23. The Circle of the Kill
  24. A Good Thing
  25. Fire at Us!
  26. Traveling Like Clarence
  27. Sharing the Weight
  28. An Amulet of the Spirit
  29. A Place Called Red Dog
  30. The Last Light Breaking
  31. Epigraph Sources
  32. Suggested Reading
  33. About The Author