The Autobiography of an Alaskan Eskimo

Abstract

Recollections of Attungoruk, a Point Hope Eskimo born in 1928, of his childhood and school days, early trapping and hunting adventures, adolescent courtships, various short-term jobs at Candle, Kotzebue, Alaska Railroad, Eielson Air Force Base, etc.; his return to Point Hope, marriage and birth of children. It is a life pattern of a typical North Alaska Eskimo who seeks summer employment outside his village to supplement income derived from winter hunting. Attungoruk's narrative is prefaced and annotated by VanStone who conducted areal community studies from Sept. 1955 to Aug. 1956.