Excerpted from The Native People of Alaska by Steve J ... of possessions from summer to winter villages in sealskin bags. Grinnell predicted that the Eskimos' immediate future was "gloomy." ...

It was an affecting scene, and it highlighted just how crucial air service is in rural Alaska communities like Golovin, an Inupiat Eskimo village of about 160 people just south of the Arctic Circle.

For countless millennia, the caribou herds of Northwest Alaska have migrated across the Brooks Range ... and the Lower 48 states to the mountains north of the traditional Eskimo villages. The first ...

I was sitting last July with an Inupiaq (Eskimo) friend in the deserted village site of Point Hope, Alaska, while he searched for trade beads in a spot where he had found a British naval button ...