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Qikartissivik. The instrument of self-help was the cooperative, chosen because it would belong to the Eskimo and because it was the most simple and therefore the most comprehensible of marketing systems. Even so, the concepts often boggled minds whose exercises in community action had never gone much beyond the equitable dissection of a harpooned seal. Introduced to the unfathomable mysteries of a credit union, for example, the Eskimos called it qikartissivik, "The place where the money is stopped...
Intersettlement conferences induced agonies of self-consciousness among delegates attuned to the lonely life. When stage fright paralyzed the first Eskimo speaker at a meeting in Frobisher Bay, Donald Snowden, the government man, eased his chair close to block the view of the crowd. "Tell me about the co-op at the George River," he said gently, "and forget about the other people here." Slowly, with the help of men like Snowden, the Eskimos developed the tools they needed: self-assurance, a sense of achievement, pride. "We built this hall to last forever!" said Willi Imudlik of the substantial wooden...
...Besides all the examples you gave in "The Barrendipity Game" [Jan. 28], we found no Eskimo Pies in Eskimoland, no canaries in the Canary Islands, no Siamese cats in Siam, no Maltese cats in Malta, and discovered that Panama hats are not made in Panama. So my husband suggested checking the Virgin Islands...
...suggestion, he picked up a Bell & Howell, took a three-week course in cinematography in Rochester -the only film training he ever had. Returning north, he shot some terrific footage of a walrus hunt, some beautiful quiet splices of life in an igloo, some hilarious takes in which an Eskimo ate a phonograph record and got bounced on his behind by a seal. All these reels he assembled in a 70-minute film, a polar pastoral volted with the same vitality that sizzles in the Eskimo...
...William J. Gordon Jr., 47, left Virginia Theological Seminary 22 years ago on assignment to Alaska, where he is now Episcopal bishop. He lived five years in an Eskimo village, once made a 35-day trek from Point Hope to Point Barrow by dog sled; he flies 50,000 miles a year, much of it in bad weather and to isolated areas. "Most people," he says, "wait on their islands of insecurity for the world to overwhelm them. In most of the U.S., no one has to take risks. Up here, you feel challenged. When I fly in bad weather...