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...William Hensley, 38, an Eskimo, grew up in northwest Alaska living as a nomad. After catching the attention of teachers in the town of Kotzebue, he boldly set out for the nation's capital, where he got a degree in political science from George Washington University. In 1966 Hensley returned to Alaska to lead the struggle for native rights. As a state legislator, he flew to Washington more than 100 times to help keep the land claims issue before Congress. In 1971 Congress passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act that gave Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts nearly $1 billion...
...Greenlanders, mostly of Eskimo descent and a few colonial Danes, live on the coastal fringes by hunting seals, fishing and shrimping, herding reindeer, or raising sheep. Uranium has been found in the south, and zinc is being mined at a site 350 miles north of the Arctic Circle. But Prime Minister Jonathan Motzfeldt, 40, a Lutheran pastor turned politician, says that sealing and fishing will remain the core of Greenland's economy. Says he: "We must look to the sea more than the land for our salvation...
With the advent of home rule, Greenlandic, an Eskimo tongue, replaces Danish as the official language, and towns now have new names. Godthaab (Good Hope in Danish) becomes Nûk, which means Point, after the capital's peninsular location. Greenland is now Kalâtdlit-Nunât, or Land of the People. But new names do not solve old social problems, and Greenland's are serious...
...connections. Sources for songs include Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "an acquaintance with a few local seals, and a series of very striking dreams" that provide Bok with images of burnt skies and a world ruled by wind. He seasons his shanties with Gaelic and Eskimo and has attempted a Mongolian tune now and again too. "I don't sing anything I don't understand," Bok says. "But the Mongolians I learned these songs from didn't understand them too well either...
...super-reporter is at his best describing locales and the means travelers use to get from one to another. His chronicle of a voyage in an umiak, an open skin-covered Eskimo craft, from Nome to a fragment of rock called King Island, is a masterpiece of terse narrative and clinical observation. Without wasting a diphthong, Roueche captures the look and feeling of the gray ice-choked sea, the pleasant bite of whisky and the new taste of muktuk, or whale fat: "The blubber looked like a block of cheese-pale pink cheese with a thick black rind...