Gives an account of the lives and culture of the Tikigaq people of Point Hope, Alaska.

"An Alaska memoir told in poems"--

Constantly suffering from the cold, Sam makes his companion on the Arctic trail promise to cremate him when he dies, which the companion does--to

A self-centered caribou named Kotzebue, on a mission to get some recognition and prove that reindeer do not pull Santa's sleigh, ends up losing h