Word: inuvik
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...Northwest Territories is changing fast. Eskimos whose fathers hunted seals and lived in igloos now drive bulldozers and travel by outboard-powered glass-fiber canoe. One Eskimo, who needed a new hair sight for his rifle, calmly dismantled his $100 wristwatch for a piece of the mainspring. In Inuvik, Indian youths with ducktail haircuts and jeans crouch over a pool table, while their girl friends in ribboned pony tails and candy-striped toreador pants play A Teenager in Love on the jukebox...
...They fly the family laundry outdoors all winter, taking care not to break the arms and legs off the frozen long underwear. During the long winter nights, families get together like people anywhere to play bridge, drink beer, listen to hi-fi records and talk about the "outside." At Inuvik, Shirley Semmler, daughter of a storekeeper, water skis on the icy Mackenzie River...