The Storytellers' Club,9780882406077

The Storytellers' Club

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ISBN13: 9780882406077
ISBN10: 0882406078
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-09-30
Publisher(s): Alaska Northwest Books
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Summary

"In the early 1920s of northwest Alaska, a handful of older Inupiat women have chosen to pass the darkest days of winter in good company. Having exchanged sealskins for indelible lead pencils at the trading post, the ladies of the Storytellers' Club gather in a sod home to talk, draw on scraps of brown paper, and sip tea." "Each is a rare vessel holding a trove of stories - some given by her ancestors; others from within her lifetime. In a time and place where as yet no alphabet exists for their language, the women practice "picture-writing" as they talk, and the stories are recorded in their most elemental form. Writing true stories from her own family history, author Loretta Outwater Cox carries on the storytelling traditions of her people. These are their stories...now given to you."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Map 6(3)
Acknowledgments 9(2)
A Note to the Reader 11(148)
1 SIKKI
13(25)
2 UTLI AND WALTER
38(23)
3 QUTLA
61(12)
4 VILLAGE RECIPES
73(28)
5 RELOCATING TO NOORVIK
101(10)
6 GETTING ICE
111(22)
7 MUGA
133(8)
8 QUTLA'S VISIT
141(9)
9 GETTING WOOD
150(9)
10 THE MEANING OF QUPUK 159(9)
11 AT UTO'S HOUSE 168(14)
12 WALTER'S FUTURE 182(8)
13 AT AYI'S HOUSE 190(23)
14 HAPPY IN IPNATCHIAQ 213(7)
References 220(1)
Family Photos 221(3)
About the Author 224

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