Goodbye, My IslandTwelve-year-old Esther Atoolik tells of the last winter her people spent on King Island, Alaska, in the early 1960's. |
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Alaska asked Dixon auklet beluga stew big boys big Paul big rocks birds blackboard boat Bureau of Indian Burton Island Cape Woolley Christmas church climb clubhouse cold coming dancing Dixon and Lewis dogs eggs Eskimo Esther Etta everything fast Father Tomas fish girls glad go to Nome GOODBYE gussuk happy hunters ice cave ice cream Indian Affairs ivory Jack Bauer JEAN ROGERS King Island knit laughed Lawrence Island look Marie and Roger meat Mother muktuk Nat and Paul nests nodded North Star Ooloranna oomiaks Pica play polar bear popcorn pull ranna RIE MUÑOZ Roger and Marie Rose and Olga Ruth schoolhouse seal hunt Shishmaref shore ice showed Dixon Silook and Adsun skin snow stayed in Nome talk tar paper taste Teacher Roger telling Dixon things told Uncle Roger village watch whale winter long Wisconsin Yakuk