The most important animal -- Minnie Gray -- Good men and bad -- Being lucky -- Hunting on the fall tundra -- Caribou soup -- Caribou companions -- The North Slope -- A new kind of caribou -- Caribou community -- Perspective from a graveyard -- Big changes on a big land -- A windblown trail to the future -- The most political animal -- Living horizons -- Iñupiaq man -- Bounty hunter -- Black Friday -- An old gray table on the land -- Making paniqtuq -- Epilogue: White walkers.