Word: anaktuvuk
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...Eskimo village of Anaktuvuk Pass in Alaska's desolate Brooks Range north of the Arctic Circle has a post office, a school and an airplane landing strip. But for all its modern trimmings, Anaktuvuk is barely out of the Stone Age. Its 15 families (averaging five children and 12 dogs each) are remnants of the nomadic Nunamiuts. Their lives are devoted to hunting the Arctic caribou, which supplies 90% of their food as well as most of their clothing. Merely to stay alive, one Nunamiut family must kill 90 caribou a year...
School was out, and that meant that once again Eskimo and Indian children in the Alaska Native Service boarding school in the Panhandle were flown home to their villages in Anaktuvuk Pass in the Brooks Range, and to Chukwuktoligamut near the Bering Sea. In the heartland city of Fairbanks (pop. 11,000), fourteen hundred 4-H Club members relieved their mothers of that wintered-in, cabin-fever feeling by piling outside and scurrying to register for their summer activities. Bud Hilton's Thawing Service advertised steam-cleaning service for building exteriors, while out on the Alcan Highway, dust warnings...