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General Books

Barker, James H. 1993. Always Getting Ready; Upterrlainarluta: Yup=ik Eskimo Subsistence in Southwest Alaska. Seattle: University of Washington Press. A year in the life of the Yup=ik of Alaska=s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, with photographs by the author.

Blodgett, Jean. 1991. In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades of Inuit Printmaking. Kleinburg, Ontario: McMichael Canadian Art Collection. An exhibit catalog with essays by Heather Ardies, Leslie Boyd, and Linda Sutherland.

Bruemmer, Fred. 1971. Seasons of the Eskimo: A Vanishing Way of Life. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, Ltd.

Burch, Ernest S., Jr. (text), & Werner Forman (photos). 1988. The Eskimos. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press / London & Sydney: Macdonald & Co. Ltd.

Chaussonnet, Valérie. 1995. Crossroads Alaska: Native Cultures of Alaska & Siberia. Washington, DC: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Exhibit catalog.

Fienup-Riordan, Ann. 1996. Agayuliyararput: Our Way of Making Prayer. Seattle: University of Washington Press / Anchorage: Anchorage Museum of History & Art & Anchorage Museum Association. Catalog of an exhibit of Yup=ik masks.

Fienup-Riordan, Ann, editor. 1996. Agayuliyararput Kegginaqut, Kangit-llu: Our Way of Making Prayer; Yup'ik Masks & the Stories they Tell. Anchorage: Anchorage Museum of History & Art / Seattle: University of Washington Press. Transcribed and translated by Marie Meade. A collection of first-person accounts by Yup=ik elders of the rich culture surrounding the masks of their people.

Fienup-Riordan, Ann. 1990. Boundaries & Passages: Rule & Ritual in Yup=ik Eskimo Oral Tradition. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Fienup-Riordan, Ann. 1990. Eskimo Essays: Yup=ik Lives & How We See Them. Rutgers, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Fienup-Riordan, Ann. 1991. The Real People & the Children of Thunder: The Yup=ik Eskimo Encounter with Moravian Missionaries John & Edith Kilbuck. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. An examination of the Yup=ik encounter with Christianity, as well as a biography of a husband and wife missionary team of the late 19^th and early 20^th century.

Hall, Judy, Jill Oakes, & Sally Qimmiu=naaq Webster. 1994. Sanatujut: Pride in Woman=s Work: Copper & Caribou Inuit Clothing Traditions. Hull, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization. Exhibit catalog.

Himmelheber, Hans. 1993. Eskimo Artists. University of Alaska Press. Introduction by Ann Fienup-Riorden. The results of fieldwork in Alaska in 1936-37.

Jones, Suzi, editor. 1982. Eskimo Dolls. Anchorage: Alaska State Council on the Arts. Text by Susan W. Fair. Photos by Rob Stapleton and Chris Arend.

Leroux, Odette, Marion E. Jackson, & Minnie Aodla Freeman. 1994. Inuit Women Artists: Voices from Cape Dorset. Hull, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Lowenstein, Tom. 1993. Ancient Land; Sacred Whale: The Inuit Hunt & its Rituals. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.

Lund, Annabel (text), & Mark Kelley (photos). 1986. Heartbeat: World Eskimo Indian Olympics. Juneau: Fairweather Press.

Marcus, Alan Rudolph. 1995. Relocating Eden: The Image & Politics of Inuit Exile in the Canadian Arctic. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England (for Dartmouth College). An account of the Canadian government=s relocation, in the 1950s, of a group of Inuit people to the inhospitable Canadian High Arctic region.

Morrison, David, & Georges-Hébert Germain. 1995. Inuit: Glimpses of an Arctic Past. Hull, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Nelson, Edward William. 1983. The Eskimo About Bering Strait. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. From the Classics of Smithsonian Anthropology@ series; first published in 1899.

Oakes, Jill, & Rick Riewe. 1995. Our Boots. New York & London: Thames & Hudson. Published in cooperation with the Bata Shoe Museum of Toronto. A well-illustrated study of arctic footwear.

Ray, Dorothy Jean. 1981. Aleut & Eskimo Art: Tradition & Innovation in South Alaska. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Ray, Dorothy Jean. 1961. Artists of the Tundra & the Sea. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Ray, Dorothy Jean. 1977. Eskimo Art: Tradition & Innovation in North Alaska. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Ray, Dorothy Jean. 1967. Eskimo Masks: Art & Ceremony. University of Washington Press, Seattle and London.

Ray, Dorothy Jean. 1975. The Eskimos of Bering Strait, 1650-1898. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Smith, James G. E. 1980. Arctic Art: Eskimo Ivory. New York: Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation. Exhibit catalog.

Steltzer, Ulli. 1982. Inuit: The North in Transition, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. The results of the author=s two years spent studying and photographing the Inuit people.

Wallen, Lynn Ager. 1990. The Face of the Dance: Yup=ik Eskimo Masks from Alaska. Calgary, Canada: Glenbow Museum. Exhibit catalog.

Williams, Stephen Guion. 1983. In the Middle: The Eskimo Today. Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher. Photos by the author. Introduction by Edmund Carpenter.

Wyatt, Victoria. 1989. Images from the Inside Passage: An Alaskan Portrait by Winter & Pond. Seattle: University of Washington Press / Juneau: Alaska State Library. Catalog of a photo exhibit at the Alaska State Library in Juneau.

Yorba, Jonathan. 1990. Drawn from the Surroundings: The Elkus Collection of Eskimo Paintings. San Francisco: A. S. Graphics, San Francisco State University.

Books for Children

Bonvillain, Nancy. 1995. The Inuit. New York & Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers. From the AIndians of North America@ series. Ages 12 and up.

Bierhorst, John. 1997. The Dancing Fox: Arctic Folktales. New York: William Morrow & Company. Illustrations by Mary K. Okheena. Any age.

Glubok, Shirley. 1964. The Art of the Eskimo. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers. Ages 8-12.

Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane. 1992. Arctic Hunter. New York: Holiday House. Illustrated with color photographs by Lawrence Migdale. Reggie, a young boy of Kotzebue, Alaska, describes Inupiat life today.

Jenness, Aylette, & Alice Rivers. 1989. In Two Worlds: A Yup=ik Eskimo Family. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. A photographic portrait of a Yup=ik family of today. Ages 8-12.

Newman, Shirlee, P. 1993. The Inuits. New York: Franklin Watts. From the AFirst Book@ series. Ages 8-12.

Osborn, Kevin. 1990. The Peoples of the Arctic. New York & Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers. From the APeoples of North America@ series. Ages 12 and up.

Osinski, Alice. 1985. The Eskimo: The Inuit & Yup'ik People. Chicago: Childrens Press. From the ANew True Book@ series. Ages 6-10.

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