People of Kauwerak
Table of Contents
Cover
Foreword
Prologue
Chapters
1. We are the Inupiat
2. The First Disaster
3. The Journey
4. The Second Disaster
5. The Third Disaster
6. After The Third Disaster
7. The Aungutguhks and Shamishes of Kauwerak
8. The Founding of Kauwerak
9. The Eagle-Wolf Messenger Feast
10. Stories of the Kazghi
11. The Fourth Disaster
Table of Contents
Cover
Foreword
Prologue
01
We are the Inupiat — The Northern Eskimos
The People of Ekeuhnick’s Time
The People of Beeueoak’s Time
The People of Anayuhk’s Time
The People of Kauwerak
02
The First Disaster
The Boyhood of Ekeuhnick
Aungayoukuksuk Comes
Aungayoukuksuk Teaches
How to Tell Time is Passing – The Eskimo Calendar
How to Tell Weather
The Warning
The Last Visit of Aungayoukuksuk
The Disaster
Clothes
Fire
Snow Comes
The First Net
The First Boat
The First Houses
03
The Journey
Time to Leave
Beginning the Journey
New Ways in a New Land
The Mountain
The Hot and Cold Rivers
Winter Comes
Spring Comes
The Way Back
The Return
The People Move
04
The Second Disaster
The Second Disaster
The First Aungutguhk
05
The Third Disaster
The Time Summer Time Did Not Come
The Story of Nasaruhk
Nasaruhk Advises Paniruhk
The Bad Weather Turns to Good Weather
Somebody Else Lives
Spring Time Comes Back
The Story of Napauruhk
The Story of Napauruhk and Nasaruhk
The Story of Anayuhk and Paniruhk
06
After The Third Disaster
After the Third Disaster
Eskimo Weatherman
Harvest Times
Equipment
Trading
Games and Contests
Husbands and Wives
Ingnukhunuk
Ahgosalik
07
The Aungutguhks and Shamishes of Kauwerak
People and Spirits
Aungutguhks and Shamishes of the Kauwerak
Aungutguhks
Two Brothers
The Aungutguhks of Tuksuk
Punginguhk and the Whalers
Punginguhk on the Cutter Bear
Eskimo Television
The Aungutguhk and the Doctor
08
The Founding of Kauwerak
The Story of Toolik
09
The Eagle-Wolf Messenger Feast
The Beginning
Toolik Goes Hunting
Preparations
The Kivgaauhk
The Feast
10
Stories of the Kazghi
Five Sisters
Eleapuk
Two Cousins
Two Brothers
Arsichsorawaruhk
Three Sisters
A Baby Cries
Short Stories
11
The Fourth Disaster
The Terrible Sickness
Epilogue
Some Kauwerak History
Some Kauwerak History
The Old Days
The Wars
The First White Man in Imuruk
The Language
First White-Man Burial in Eskimo Country
The Disasters
Glossary
Natural Harvest of the Kauweramiut
People Named in the Text
Places Names As Used Today
Names, Words, and other Terms in the Text