Author: Doris D. Ray
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
ISBN: 1662936141
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
NEVER IN THEIR WILDEST DREAMS did the young couple imagine their teaching careers would begin in a remote Yupik Eskimo village on a desolate, icy, wind-swept island in the Bering Sea. It was 1951. On a whim, Charles “Tod” and his fiancé, Doris Derby, answer a help-wanted ad seeking teachers in Alaska. Back comes a telegram from the Bureau of Indian Affairs offering jobs 3,000 miles away in Savoonga, population 250, on St. Lawrence Island. The village had no airport, no roads, no telephones, and little contact with the outside world. The Rays arrive in a walrus skinboat. “Our lives have become so vastly different from anything we have ever experienced!” Doris writes her mother. Thus begins one of many candid, evocative letters Tod and Doris write describing their experiences being two of only three white people in the village … melting ice for water … teaching children who speak no English … forming close friendships with villagers who welcome them warmly … fighting a frightening measles epidemic … and receiving groceries by ship once a year while villagers hunt walrus for survival. Finding Savoonga is illustrated with 110 color photographs illustrating a self-sufficient, pre-industrial society subsisting on food from the sea.
FINDING SAVOONGA
Author: Doris D. Ray
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
ISBN: 1662936141
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
NEVER IN THEIR WILDEST DREAMS did the young couple imagine their teaching careers would begin in a remote Yupik Eskimo village on a desolate, icy, wind-swept island in the Bering Sea. It was 1951. On a whim, Charles “Tod” and his fiancé, Doris Derby, answer a help-wanted ad seeking teachers in Alaska. Back comes a telegram from the Bureau of Indian Affairs offering jobs 3,000 miles away in Savoonga, population 250, on St. Lawrence Island. The village had no airport, no roads, no telephones, and little contact with the outside world. The Rays arrive in a walrus skinboat. “Our lives have become so vastly different from anything we have ever experienced!” Doris writes her mother. Thus begins one of many candid, evocative letters Tod and Doris write describing their experiences being two of only three white people in the village … melting ice for water … teaching children who speak no English … forming close friendships with villagers who welcome them warmly … fighting a frightening measles epidemic … and receiving groceries by ship once a year while villagers hunt walrus for survival. Finding Savoonga is illustrated with 110 color photographs illustrating a self-sufficient, pre-industrial society subsisting on food from the sea.
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
ISBN: 1662936141
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
NEVER IN THEIR WILDEST DREAMS did the young couple imagine their teaching careers would begin in a remote Yupik Eskimo village on a desolate, icy, wind-swept island in the Bering Sea. It was 1951. On a whim, Charles “Tod” and his fiancé, Doris Derby, answer a help-wanted ad seeking teachers in Alaska. Back comes a telegram from the Bureau of Indian Affairs offering jobs 3,000 miles away in Savoonga, population 250, on St. Lawrence Island. The village had no airport, no roads, no telephones, and little contact with the outside world. The Rays arrive in a walrus skinboat. “Our lives have become so vastly different from anything we have ever experienced!” Doris writes her mother. Thus begins one of many candid, evocative letters Tod and Doris write describing their experiences being two of only three white people in the village … melting ice for water … teaching children who speak no English … forming close friendships with villagers who welcome them warmly … fighting a frightening measles epidemic … and receiving groceries by ship once a year while villagers hunt walrus for survival. Finding Savoonga is illustrated with 110 color photographs illustrating a self-sufficient, pre-industrial society subsisting on food from the sea.
Savoonga
Author: United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Planning Support Group
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
SIKU: Knowing Our Ice
Author: Igor Krupnik
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048185866
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
By exploring indigenous people’s knowledge and use of sea ice, the SIKU project has demonstrated the power of multiple perspectives and introduced a new field of interdisciplinary research, the study of social (socio-cultural) aspects of the natural world, or what we call the social life of sea ice. It incorporates local terminologies and classifications, place names, personal stories, teachings, safety rules, historic narratives, and explanations of the empirical and spiritual connections that people create with the natural world. In opening the social life of sea ice and the value of indigenous perspectives we make a novel contribution to IPY, to science, and to the public
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048185866
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
By exploring indigenous people’s knowledge and use of sea ice, the SIKU project has demonstrated the power of multiple perspectives and introduced a new field of interdisciplinary research, the study of social (socio-cultural) aspects of the natural world, or what we call the social life of sea ice. It incorporates local terminologies and classifications, place names, personal stories, teachings, safety rules, historic narratives, and explanations of the empirical and spiritual connections that people create with the natural world. In opening the social life of sea ice and the value of indigenous perspectives we make a novel contribution to IPY, to science, and to the public
Alaska Outer Continental Shelf, Beaufort Sea and Chukchi Sea Planning Areas, Oil and Gas Lease Sales 209. 212, 217, and 221
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Winging It!
Author: Jack Jefford
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 0882408674
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Jack Jefford shares stories of his gripping rescues, white-knuckle crackups, and wild adventures that come from flying the not always friendly skies of Alaska. Arriving in the Territory of Alaska in 1937, he started flying from the gold rush town of Nome for Hans Mirow. Jack’s stories are some of the most fascinating and interesting to come out of Alaska. At the urging of his daughter, this great, early Alaska pilot decided to share these incredible flying stories with all aviation fans the world over
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 0882408674
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Jack Jefford shares stories of his gripping rescues, white-knuckle crackups, and wild adventures that come from flying the not always friendly skies of Alaska. Arriving in the Territory of Alaska in 1937, he started flying from the gold rush town of Nome for Hans Mirow. Jack’s stories are some of the most fascinating and interesting to come out of Alaska. At the urging of his daughter, this great, early Alaska pilot decided to share these incredible flying stories with all aviation fans the world over
Men of the Tundra
Author: Muktuk Marston
Publisher: New York : October House
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A story of epic dimensions and significance. It is an Iliad: the tale of a whole people, the Eskimos of Alaska-at war. Marston's personal account which is also one of the truest pictures of the Eskimo people-of his adventures in northern and western Alaska following Pearl Harbor.
Publisher: New York : October House
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A story of epic dimensions and significance. It is an Iliad: the tale of a whole people, the Eskimos of Alaska-at war. Marston's personal account which is also one of the truest pictures of the Eskimo people-of his adventures in northern and western Alaska following Pearl Harbor.
Alaska Adventures and More
Author: Marilyn Carter
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1634179234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Book Delisted
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1634179234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Book Delisted
Economic Decisions of the Civil Aeronautics Board
Author: United States. Civil Aeronautics Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
Book Description
Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382819562
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382819562
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description