A case study of the impact of formal education on one Alaskan Eskimo community and the effect on the teacher.

Doris Hugo talks about attending school in Shungnak, staying with Joe Sun and his family, her parents wanting her to read and write English, movi

"In the late 1950s there was no school teacher for the most remote region in Alaska-- until Anna Bortel Church. In this captivating interview wit

Just as the Alaska spawning salmon swim upstream, so did this single woman swim against the current of a society that expected her to fit the mol

Ethel Ross Oliver talks about teaching at Tulugak Lake, Simon Paneak working with Dr. Irving, Mary Lauber, Edna Elshier, Rev. Wartes, building a

Justus and Ethel Mekiana talk about Inupiaq artifacts, antler horn, ladles, horn ladle production, snowshoes, birch wood, Kobuk, anthropologists,