Author: John Steckley
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Keywords: inuit, lies
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2007-12-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1551118750
ISBN-13: 9781551118758

Author: Leslie Strudwick
Publisher: Weigl Publishers
Keywords: peoples, indigenous, inuit
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-10
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1590361571
ISBN-13: 9781590361573

Author: Lydia Dabcovich
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: tale, inuit, son, bear, polar
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 1999-03-29
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0395975670
ISBN-13: 9780395975671

A lonely old woman adopts, cares for, and raises a polar bear as if he were her own son, until jealous villagers threaten the bear’s life, forcing him to leave his home and his "mother," in a retelling of a traditional Inuit folktale.

Author: James A. Houston
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: legend, eskimo, inuit, liktak, tikta
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1990-10-29
List price: $11.00
ISBN-10: 0152877487
ISBN-13: 9780152877484

A young Eskimo hunter fights for survival while stranded on an isolated and desolate island.

Author: David C. Woodman
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: queen, native, northern, series, mcgill, testimony, franklin, mystery, inuit, unravelling
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1992-06
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0773509364
ISBN-13: 9780773509368

David Woodman’s reconstruction of the mysterious events surrounding the tragic Franklin expedition boldly challenges standard interpretations and promises to replace them. Among the many who have tried to discover the truth behind the Franklin disaster, Woodman is the first to recognise the profound importance of the Inuit testimony and to analyse it in depth. He concludes from his investigations that the Inuit probably did visit Franklin’s ships while the crew was still on board and that there were some Inuit who actually saw the sinking of one of the ships. He maintains that fewe

Author: James A. Houston
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: odyssey, classics, legends, inuit, houston, treasury, james
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 015205930X
ISBN-13: 9780152059309

James Houston made his first journey to the Canadian Arctic in 1948 in search of a new land to paint. There he found a warm, friendly people living in a vast, cold, hauntingly beautiful world. He lived with the Inuit and Indian people in the Arctic and grew to understand them and their way of life. He also helped introduce Inuit culture to the world with his remarkable art and stories. Here are four of his exciting Inuit folktales--Akavak, Tiktaliktak, The White Archer, and Wolf Run--collected for the first time in one beautiful volume. Houston’s striking illustrations for e