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My Name Is Not Easy
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My Name Is Not EasyMy name is not easy. My name is hard like ocean ice grinding at the shore... Luke knows his I upiaq name is full of sounds white people can't say. So he leaves it behind when he and his brothers are sent to boarding school hundreds of miles away from their Arctic village. At Sacred Heart School, students Eskimo, Indian, White line up on different sides of the cafeteria like there's some kind of war going on. Here, speaking I upiaq or any native language is forbidden.
 
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Tags: Sacred, upiaq, Heart, speaking, native, Indian, White, different, Eskimo
Eskimo Architecture - Dwelling and Structure in the Early Historic Period
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Eskimo Architecture - Dwelling and Structure in the Early Historic PeriodEskimo Architecture - Dwelling and Structure in the Early Historic Period

The architecture of Eskimo peoples represents a diversified and successful means of coping with one of the most severe climates humankind can inhabit. The popular image of the igloo is but one of the many structures examined by experts Lee and Reinhardt in the first book-length and arctic-wide study of this remarkable subject.


 
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Tags: Eskimo, arctic-wide, study, book-length, Reinhardt, Period, Early, Historic, Architecture