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Photographs of Alaskan Eskimos with commentary discussing the changes in their traditional lifestyles.

Describes the art of Greenland from the earliest times to the present.

Examines the negative impacts humans have had on the native population, wildlife, and ecology of the arctic. Evokes the lifestyle of the arctic peoples, describes the erosion of this culture under the impact of colonialism, and makes an indisputable case for a common collaboration to save the arctic from further despoilation.

In 1970 a small group of young Inuit women in Pangnirtung on Baffin Island began to tell a story - a story about their past, their culture, their lives - a story told through woven pictures. The first book dedicated to the art form of tapestry weaving, Nuvisavik shows how weaving became a bridge between nomadic camp life and life in a permanent settlement. The tapestries, meticulously woven by women trained by their mothers as seamstresses, portray...

Alaska trooper Nathan Active investigates a rash of suicides in an Eskimo village. The villagers blame a family curse, but Active, an Eskimo raised by whites, thinks a human hand is at work.

When the Inuit's way of life is threatened by the Church of England's boycott on the fur trade, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Arctic, Christopher Williams, speaks out in support of traditional values and culture.