Twelve-year-old Esther Atoolik tells of the last winter her people spent on King Island, Alaska, in the early 1960's.

Pica's mittens are always turning up in strange places, but when he finds them keeping the newborn puppies warm in their box, he decides to leave

Eskimos help a priest stranded on a freighter in the Bering Sea to reach their island village in time to celebrate Christmas.