After a deadly epidemic strikes a Yup'ik village, newly widowed teacher John Morgan must make the thousand-mile trek across the Alaskan wildernes

Twelve-year-old Minuk's traditional Eskimo way of life is changed forever in 1892 with the arrival of Christian missionaries.

Kitaq is not yet six years old when his grandfather takes him ice fishing for the first time, carrying on a long-lived tradition among the Yupik

In 1848, ten-year-old Toozak, a Yupik Eskimo, sees a whale being born and is told by a shaman that he and his descendants must protect that whale