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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
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Subject: Re: Re: Sunny's  PMS comments
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Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 08:54:11 EDT
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> 
> Can anyone tell me if incidents like what Sunny describes happened BEFORE
> the Eskimos were forced to greatly change their way of life due to the
> influence of our society?  All of the Eskimos that I have seen were earning
> their living by menial labour jobs in the port of Churchill, Manitoba.
> Violence among these people does not (in my opinion) stain the record of
> traditional Eskimo culture.  I admit, though, that I only know hearsay about
> that culture.  Does anybody out there know more?
> 

	There is a fascinating book called "The White Dawn" which is the
story of the disintegration of an Eskimo tribe that takes in three men
from a whaling ship, as told by the only surviving member of the tribe to
someone from (I think) the Bureau of Indian Affairs or a similar agency.
It was also apparently made into a movie, which I  have never seen in the
theaters. I highly recommend it.

-- 
jcpatilla

"The bland leadeth the bland and they both shall fall into the kitsch."