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...begins at Fairbanks, Alaska, where the 707s refuel. Waiting at the runway is an Eskimo with a Gibson refrigerator. The idea is that the not-so-dry Gibsons can snap pictures, brag back home that they sold an icebox to an Eskimo. At Tokyo, a Hong Kong tailor comes aboard to measure for suits and shirts, and between organized activities visitors get an opportunity to spend their own "fun money." "My wife bought herself ten glass-beaded sweaters," complained a Nevada dealer. "I'll have to sell glass-beaded refrigerators when we get home to get even...
Highway was nearly engulfed by the West Fork blaze, which has been burning for more than a month; the flames were stopped just two miles out of town. In north central Alaska, a fire near Bear Mountain on the Koyukuk River was also diverted just short of the Eskimo village of Huslia, but it burned...
...there was the endless rounds of drinking and gabbing in outdoor cafes on the pigeon-infested piazza. And everywhere the parties went, there was one fellow sure to go-a man who insisted that he was from the U.S. Department of the Interior dealing "with Indian and Eskimo art." Of course, no Indians or Eskimos were represented...
Oneekatualeeotae. By 1963, Eskimos were running 18 coops, shipping as far south as New York such marketable commodities as frozen char (a delicious fish that tastes like salmon), waterproof sealskin boots, Eskimo handicraft and art. In the Eskimos' own stores, delicacies that they canned themselves-muk-tuk (whale skin), corned and roasted seal meat, sweet-and-sour whale, walrus flippers vinaigrette-now move as briskly as canned ham loaf...
Author Iglauer, the wife of The New Yorker Writer Philip Hamburger, flew to Northern Canada, attended the conferences as an observer, learned how to walk in deep snow (bend the knees to exert a forward rather than downward thrust) and got an Eskimo name: Oneekatualeeotae, "The woman who tells the story." She tells it deliberately and unemotionally, but she provides plenty for the reader to feel emotional about...