Arctic Adventures: Tales from the Lives of Inuit Artists

Arctic Adventures: Tales from the Lives of Inuit Artists"I never tire of looking at this book! The artists! Their stories! Their legends! Their artwork and the accompanying illustrations!" Emily Extreme weather, hunger, magic, hunting, and the land are themes that shape the existence of the Inuits of the Far North. These stories retold by Raquel Rivera based on the lives of native artists Pudlo Pudlat, Jessie Oonark, Kenojuak Ashevak and Lazarusie Ishulutuk offer young readers a glimpse into this rich,

the life of an Indian in modern America is as rich in irony as it is in tradition

halted the expansion of tar sands extraction and the pipeline construction at Standing Rock

longer narrative sequences

or gashkibidaaganag—the large

without which no study of American poetry is complete

past and present

The history and politics of American Indians' unique constitutional status from a renowned scholar

commitment

and an afterword by Cristina Eisenberg

Shadow Tag is an eerily gripping read

as Natives are

and takes her far from her native Montana plains to his own Minneapolis home