The Last Light Breaking: Living Among Alaska's Inupiat Eskimos by Jans Nick

Author:Jans, Nick [Jans, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Essays, Travel, Adventure, Writing, Biography, Native American, Non-Fiction, Anthropology
ISBN: 9780882408651
Amazon: 0882408658
Goodreads: 18119650
Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
Published: 1993-07-01T07:00:00+00:00

In September we went up to Kuugruaq or Nimiuktuk. We pulled the skin boats upriver—never used sails—used two or three dogs to pull boat. Men pulled the boat while women poled. . . . When we went home from hunting we would get the boat and go back downriver. If we didn’t see any caribou we went as far as the ocean (we could see the ocean when we climbed the mountain—it looked like smoke). This trip took a long time, maybe a month.

We dried up the meat, fat and all, over a fire and tried to carry it all back with us. The hunters were using rifles and hunted like people do now. If my father was lucky he might get four or five caribou . . . but we usually didn’t get lots and sometimes didn’t get any.

. . . After we got to Naupaktusugruk the Noatagmiut [lower Noatak people] came, traveling the same way. . . . On the way some people always throw those who starve or who are too weak to go farther. They leave them on the trail.

—from the autobiography of Edna Hunnicutt, The Eskimo Storyteller, by Edwin S. Hall, Jr.

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