I've taken more books than planned from the Indigenous Peoples book box, and as I have an extra copy of this (I love this book so much I keep snatching it up when I see a copy at the library book sale), I'm adding it to the box.

While this is a children's book, I read this at a ripe old age and still enjoyed it tremendously. The description of the wolves is fascinating, how they interact with each other and even protect Miyax. The details about Eskimo life is intriguing, how Miyak was able to survive in such inhospitable land that would surely have killed me in mere hours, to survive so resourcefully by hunting, taking food from other animals, trapping and also fashioning tools from what she has. It reminds me of a saying in another book about native cultures: what the Europeans thought of as the wilderness to be conquered had actually been home and fertile, bountiful land for millions of native people for hundreds and thousands of years. The book also mention aspects of Eskimo culture that I knew nothing of.

That said, I was surprised with the ending, I really don't like what happens, though it is realistic. It does keep me thinking though.

This came back home in the Indigenous Peoples Bookbox.