Las Animas - Bent County Library District

A collection of illustrated Eskimo folktales. In The Man Who Married a Seagull, a lady seagull is transformed into a human so she can marry one, The Wolverine Secret is on a raven who stole the sun and the moon, while in the title story a food shortage threatens a village when a girl stops dreaming of geese, because geese only arrive if she dreams of them. Based on decades of research and extended collaboration with Inuit storytellers, award-winning...

Discusses the Inuit and their continuing struggle to preserve their way of life and maintain their cultural identity in the modern world.

An old woman adopts and raises a polar bear cub which grows up and provides for her even after she has had to send it away to save it from the jealous men of the village.

A young Eskimo hunter fights for survival while stranded on an isolated and desolate island.

The story of three whales and a Hawaiian girl and a Yupik Eskimo boy who love them. When the whales are trapped under the ice of the Arctic Ocean, people and nations come together to save them.

An Inuit boy sings his song of love for the austere but beautiful world he shares with all the different creatures

When the spirit guide changes her into a seal, Tiktala learns the ways of seals and how harmful humans can be.

An Eskimo mother talks to her sleepy child as they go on a journey through the peaceful world of the Arctic and its animals.