LIST OF PLATES 9
PREFACE：The Forty-Ninth Star 11
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 17
MAP OF ALASKA 18
PART ONE - A Fine Complete People 19
1 Stormy Route to a Quiet Mind 21
2 Every Day is Saturday 42
3 Outpost 66
4 In a Maris World - Men 81
5 The Proud Eskimo Igloo- Wife 100
6 Little Isaac Sing too Much 115
7 Eskimo Love Song 130
8 Men of Magic 149
9 The Missing Spirit 167
10 Even though Ukfakineritarpitsia 185
11 A Race Adrift 194
12 Bush Flight 215
PART TWO - Modem Pioneering 231
13 A Choice of Challenges 233
14 Outwitting the Arctic 254
15 Supply Lines 267
16 The Bountiful Arctic Wilderness 280
17 One Maris Bonanza 293
18 The Mad Eskimo Woman of Diomede 305
19 Epilogue 322
INDEX 324