To Siberia and Russian America. Three Centuries of Russian Eastward Expansion. 3 Vols, edited and translated by Basil Dmytryshyn

One manifestation of this Euro-centrism regarding the Arctic has been to identify the North with man's heroic battle with nature.This is portrayed in our fascination with the lives of individual explorers and a focus on man-the-hunter surviving through skill and ingenuity in a harsh environment.Unfortunately, this orientation all too often has polarized men's and women's roles, obscuring in the process the crucial and multifaceted contribution of indigenous women to their culture.Through Sadie Brower Neakok's narrative we gain important insights into the flexibility of the gender division of labor as she meets her multiple commitments to family, career and Iiiupiaq culture.As an important leader, wife of an umealik (whaling captain) and mother, her oral history is instructive about other dimensions of struggle and heroismdimensions that locate human frontiers not only in a confrontation with the physical environment in the North, but in the many social, economic and political issues that are interlinked with the survival of Iiiupiaq culture.From the beginning Sadie Brower Neakok has lived in two worlds.Growing up in Barrow, Alaska, as the sixth child of her renowned father, whaler and trader Charles Brower, she was expected to eat "white man's food" at his table and observe his evening curfew

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