Word: eskimoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman Catholic schoolboy in Burgundy, Roger Buliard dreamed of an adventurous life in the service of Christ. The dream became a dedication. Roger Buliard entered the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, studied seven years for the priesthood, and at last got a mission station at Coppermine, an Eskimo settlement within the Arctic Circle in the Canadian northwest. For 15 years he roamed the Arctic, forming small congregations, studying Eskimo life and manners, gradually falling in love with the place. Inuk (Eskimo for "I am the man") is the record of his Arctic life, a superb account that blends the impersonal acuteness...
Some members of the faculty will travel to Point Barrow, Alaska, on an expedition sponsored by the Anthropology Department. Bulldozers at the Point Barrow army base have unearthed an ancient Eskimo burial ground. Wilbert K. Carter, teaching fellow in Anthropology, will lead the expedition to take up where the army left...
Perhaps even more ancient than the Eskimo remains are several skeletons of the prehistoric Neanderthal man which are on loan to the University, Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, will remain at the University to restore these--the only such remains in the United States--for exhibition at Peabody Museum next fall...
Owtaluk the Eskimo...
...done it? Merk, it was said, had employed a brawny Eskimo guide named Owtaluk, a native of Kodiak, to drive him to class in a sled drawn by a dozen Eskimo dogs...