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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... glad she had come . Now I would not be alone with the big boys , Nat and Paul . On the days when they went hunting , I would have someone to share lessons with , and knitting and sewing . First we talked about what we had done in Nome ...
... glad she had come . Now I would not be alone with the big boys , Nat and Paul . On the days when they went hunting , I would have someone to share lessons with , and knitting and sewing . First we talked about what we had done in Nome ...
Page 55
... glad . Maybe our father would decide to do that , too . How would it be , I won- dered , if so few of us came back ? What would it be like during the ice and the long dark not to have the father in church to hold services and no ...
... glad . Maybe our father would decide to do that , too . How would it be , I won- dered , if so few of us came back ? What would it be like during the ice and the long dark not to have the father in church to hold services and no ...
Page 56
... glad of one thing , I knew . In Nome there was a school , and Lewis and I could go on to high school . Why , some of our people had even gone to the university . Willie Ipalook became a doctor . ELEVEN I wrote in the school log every ...
... glad of one thing , I knew . In Nome there was a school , and Lewis and I could go on to high school . Why , some of our people had even gone to the university . Willie Ipalook became a doctor . ELEVEN I wrote in the school log every ...
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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