This volume is one of a series of twenty-four from Time-Life Books that chronicles the history and culture of the Native Americans.  People of the Ice and Snow is a high-quality, comprehensive overview of the Aleut, Yupik, and Inuit cultures that's filled with luminous full-color photographs, reproductions, and maps. The text is divided into three long chapters providing even those new to the subject with solid, even-handed material delivered in a respectful tone. Six photo essays and many shorter photo-and-text treatments are interspersed throughout.

Contents

1
The Hunting Way of Life
18

2
"Never Weary of Laughter"
82

3
A Struggle to Preserve Tradition
138

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The Eternal Eskimo
6
 Pursuing the Great Nanook
62
 The Gift of the Whale
72
 Emissary to the Gods
121
 Images From the Nether World
128
 The Art of Ivory Carving
176

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Collect all 24 volumes to complete the entire series!