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In this startlingly intimate book of reportage, Richard Adams Carey takes us to the furthest frontier of American society. Kongiganak, Alaska, cannot be reached by road. In its school, children say the pledge of allegiance in Yupik, their Eskimo language. By any measure, Kongiganak is one of the most remote places in the United States. Yet it finds itself in the midst of radical change. Just two generations ago, Kongiganak knew no cash economy. Its men went to sea in sealskin kayaks and fed their families with what they caught. Today they still go to sea, but in manufactured boats, and they depend on selling their catch to the Japanese processing ships that hover offshore. The modern world has insinuated itself in other, more pernicious ways--not the least of them whiskey and the VCR. Oscar and Margaret Active are one Yupik couple struggling bravely against the force of these incongruities. Margaret works in the village school, and to her husband's distress, her salary is essential to the family's well-being. Oscar is a hunter and fisherman, and his pride--his very identity--depends on being able to survive on the terms established by his ancestors. But these terms arc being change

Author

Carey, Richard Adams

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780395486771

Subjects

Sociology, History, Social Science

Rating

4.5 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14