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...response to suggestions that he failed to discriminate sexual prejudice as finely as he did those of race and class, Coles admits it is true he has "much to learn about what women are struggling for, against and with." After 1976, when the final work of Chicanos, Indians, and Eskimo children will complete Children of Crisis, Coles is considering "coming full circle to my origins" and observing, from the identical methodological and structural vantage point, middle-class suburban life. One key to Coles's feeling that, in gratitude for "a few moments on this earth" he must let his curiosity...
...opponents are telling the apocryphal story of the Eskimo chairman of Senator George McGovern's Alaska campaign, who was giving a speech in favor of the Senator recently when a group of Muskie supporters began heckling him, drowning him out with boos and whistles. The Eskimo's comeback: "Hush, you Muskies...
...MacArthur, R.S. Some cognitive abilities of Eskimo, white and Indian-Metis pupils aged 9 to 12 years. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Sciences...
Some 2,300 people live in Barrow, now Alaska's ninth largest city. Once it was a small Eskimo village. Then, in the late 19th century, Charles Brower set up a whaling station; he stayed on for 57 years and became known as "The King of the North." Today about 90% of the people in Barrow are Eskimos. They and the few whites in Barrow form a tightly knit community. There is not much money in the settlement's treasury. But when a new emergency fire vehicle was needed, the residents chipped in to help the town...
...Sadie Neakok, 51, the district magistrate in Barrow. "There's nothing better to do than get drunk." Recreation is limited to basketball at the school gym, unreliable cable television, movies at the Polar Bear Theater (with special weekend showings of X-rated films), bingo and a week of Eskimo sports between Christmas and New Year...