Book Collection

The Bering Strait region has a rich history. In documenting this knowledge, BSNC has collected a wide variety of books written by shareholders, descendants and others about the history of our region, Our People and our lifestyle. The collection of books contains information on ivory carving, survival, the gold rush days, dog mushing and historical and cultural stories of our beautiful region. A language dictionary of one of the dialects spoken in the region is also included. Please be advised that some of the books may be hard to come by but most can be purchased online.

If you know of any other books that should be added to this list, please email: media@beringstraits.com.

1. 1. 1. Dark Traffic: Poems by Joan Naviyuk Kane, Dark Traffic: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series): 9780822966623: Kane, Joan Naviyuk: Books
      2. Eskimo Legends by Lela Kiana Oman, Eskimo Legends: Lela Kiana Oman: Amazon.com: Books
      3. Grandfather of Unalakleet Lineage of Alluyagnak by Emily (Ticasuk) Ivanoff Brown, Grandfather of Unalakleet, the lineage of Alluyagnak (eBook, 1974) [WorldCat.org]
      4. Hyperboreal by Joan Naviyuk Kane, Hyperboreal (Pitt Poetry Series): 9780822962625: Kane, Joan Naviyuk: Books
      5. Igaluinmiutullu Qawiaragmiutullu Aglait Nalaunaitkataat (A Qawairaq Igaluik Inupiat Dictionary) by Roy Agloinga, Luann Harrelsson, Steven Agloinga and Agnes Komakhuk, Iġałuinmiutullu Qawiaraġmiutullu Aglait Nalaunaitkataat = Qawiaraq Igaluik Inupiat dictionary: Roy Agloinga, Luann Harrelson, Steven Agloinga, Agnes Komakhuk: 9780989401401: Amazon.com: Books
      6. Irigak by Amber Cunningham, Purchase Irigak – Irigak
      7. Irigak II: Maverick Seizes the Land by Amber R. Cunningham, Purchase Irigak – Irigak
      8. Jesus and the Eskimos by Fred Savok, Jesus &The Eskimo: How the Man of the Sky Brought the Light to My People: Fred Savok: 9780976081708: Amazon.com: Books
      9. Menadelook: An Inupiat Teacher’s Photographs of Alaska Village Life, 1907-1932 by Eileen Norbert, Menadelook: An Inupiat Teacher’s Photographs of Alaska Village Life, 1907-1932: Norbert, Eileen: 9780295999333: Amazon.com: Books
      10. Milk Black Carbon by Joan Naviyuk Kane, Milk Black Carbon (Pitt Poetry Series): 9780822964513: Kane, Joan Naviyuk: Books
      11. Open the Dark by Marie Tozier, Open the Dark: 9781597099202: Tozier, Marie: Books
      12. People of Kauwerak: Legends of the Northern Eskimo by William A. Oquilluk and Laurel L. Bland, People of Kauwerak: Legends of the Northern Eskimo (Alaskana Book Series): Oquilluk, William A., Bland, Laurel L.: 9780935094077: Amazon.com: Books 
      13. Roger Menadelook by Eileen Norbert, akanth-articles_430_v11_n12_Menadelook.pdf (alaskaanthropology.org)
      14. Salt & Roses by Buffy McKay, Salt & Roses: McKay, Buffy: 9798885250474: Amazon.com: Books
      15. Tales of Ticasuk Eskimo Legends and Stories by Emily (Ticasuk) Ivanoff Brown, Tales of Ticasuk: Eskimo Legends and Stories: Ticasuk, (Emily Ivanoff Brown): 9780912006451: Amazon.com: Books
      16. The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife by Joan Naviyuk Kane, The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife (The Alaska Literary Series): Kane, Joan: 9781602231573: Amazon.com: Books
      17. The Epic of Qayaq: The Longest Story Ever Told By My People by Lela Kiana Oman, The Epic of Qayaq: The Longest Story Ever Told by My People: Oman, Lela Kiana: 9780886292676: Amazon.com: Books
      18. Our Fur-fathers of Southwest Alaska by Bev Sims and Dianne Zitnik, Our Fur-father’s of Southwest Alaska: Kalmakoff, Kameroff, Kamkoff: Sims, Bev, Zitnik, Dianne: 9781546668732: Amazon.com: Books
      19. The Longest Story Ever Told: Qayaq, The Magical Man by Emily (Ticasuk) Ivanoff Brown, The Longest Story Ever Told: Qayaq, The Magical Man: Ticasuk, (Emily Ivanoff Brown): 9781602230460: Amazon.com: Books
      20. The Red Dragonfly from Alaska by Gertie Ann, The Red Dragonfly From Alaska: 9781642999242: Ann, Gertie: Books
      21. The Roots of Ticasuk: An Eskimo Woman’s Family Story by Emily (Ticasuk) Ivanoff Brown, The Roots of Ticasuk: An Eskimo Woman’s Family Story: Brown, Emily I, Ticasuk, Brown, Emily Ivanoff: 9780882401171: Amazon.com: Books
      22. The Straits by Joan Naviyuk Kane, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36195433-the-straits
      23. The Winter Walk: A Century-Old Survival Story from the Arctic by Loretta Outwater Cox, https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Walk-Century-Old-Survival-Story-ebook/dp/B0055E8Y8Q#customerReviews
      24. The Storytellers’ Club: The Picture Writing Women of the Arctic by Loretta Outwater Cox The Storytellers’ Club: The Picture-Writing Women of the Arctic: Cox, Loretta Outwater: 9780882406077: Amazon.com: Books
      25. Under the Arctic Sun: The Life and Times of Frank and Ada Degnan by Frances Ann Degnan, Under the Arctic Sun: The Life and Times of Frank and Ada Degnan: Degnan, Frances Ann: 9780966965001: Amazon.com: Books
      26. A Boy and His Grandpa by Suzanne Urban, https://g.co/kgs/k7nYAR
      27. Fearless and Moving On: Overcoming Fear by Suzanne Urban, https://g.co/kgs/NGnKj9
      28. Give Or Take a Century: an Eskimo Chronicle by J.E. Senungetuk, Give Or Take a Century: an Eskimo Chronicle: Senungetuk, J. E.: 9781125927946: Amazon.com: Books
      29. Alaskan Igloo Tales by Edward Keithahn and George Aden Ahgupuk, https://www.amazon.com/Alaskan-Igloo-Reprint-Edward-Keithahn/dp/1616461993
      30. Alaska Native Resilience by Holly Miowak Guise, Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II (Indigenous Confluences): Guise, Holly Miowak: 9780295752525: Amazon.com: Books

1. 1. Sometimes We’re Always Real Same-Same by Mattox Roesch, Amazon.com: Sometimes We’re Always Real Same-Same: 9781932961874: Roesch, Mattox: Books

1. 1. A Group of Alaskan Eskimos Receive Greetings and Sample the Hospitality of Soviet Russia by Roger (Kokituk) Menadelook
   2. A line of Driftwood: The Ada Blackjack Story by Diane Glancy
   3. Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven
   4. Alaska Eskimo Footwear by Jill Oakes and Rick Riewe
   5. Alaska Gold Rush at Nome by Lawrence David Weiss
   6. Alaska’s Daughter: An Eskimo Memoir of the Early Twentieth Century by Elizabeth Bernhardt Pinson, “Alaska’s Daughter” by Elizabeth Bernhardt Pinson (usu.edu)
   7. Alaska’s Seward Peninsula by National Geographic
   8. Alaska’s Wolf man by Jim Rearden
   9. Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait by Allen Wardwell
   10. Brevig Mission, Alaska by David Vincent
   11. Empire’s Edge American Society in Nome, Alaska 1898-1934 by Preston Jones
   12. Eskimo Carvers of the Bering Sea Walrus Ivory Carving by Dale Kessler
   13. Eskimo Village by Walter E. Meyers
   14. Ethnohistory In the Arctic: The Bering Strait Eskimo by Dorothy Jean Ray
   15. Fairy Tales & Myths Of The Bering Strait Chukchi by Alexander B. Dolitsky
   16. Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground: An Ethnography of Climate Change in Shishmaref, Alaska by Elizabeth Marino
   17. Floating Coast An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth
   18. I Am Eskimo: Aknik My Name by Paul Green
   19. Ice Window: Letters from a Bering Strait Village 1892-1902 by Kathleen Lopp-Smith
   20. Icebound Summer by Sally Carrighar
   21. In A Far Country by John Taliaferro
   22. Jorgy: The Life of Native Alaskan Bush Pilot and Arline Captain Holger “Jorgy” Jorgenson by Holger Jorgenson and Jean Lester
   23. King Island Tales: Ugiuvangmiut Quliapyuit – Eskimo History and Legends from Bering Strait by Laurence Kaplan
   24. Kuuvanmiut Subsistence/Traditional Eskimo Life in the Latter Twentieth Century by Douglas B. Anderson
   25. Men of the Tundra/Alaska Eskimos at War by Marvin Muktuk Marston
   26. Moonlight at Midday: Alaska, its animals, ghosts, and people, Eskimos and white by Sally Carrighar
   27. Nome “City of Golden Beaches” by National Geographic Vol.11, No.1
   28. Nome Alaska 2006 by Stephen Cysewski
   29. Once Upon An Eskimo Time by Edna Wilder
   30. Pioneer Missionary to The Bering Strait Eskimos by Louis L. Renner
   31. Plants that We Eat: Nauriat Niginaqtuat by Anore Jones
   32. Reindeer and Gold by Keith A. Murray
   33. Saami, Reindeer, and Gold in Alaska/The Emigration of Saami from Norway to Alaska by Ornulv Vorren
   34. Sakuuktugut by Alexander McClanaham
   35. Savoonga Ivory Carvers: A Yupik Walrus Ivory Carving Tradition on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska by Bruce Bartholomew
   36. Secrets of Eskimo Skin Sewing by Edna Wilder
   37. Seppala Alaska Dog Driver by Elizabeth M. Ricker
   38. Siku: Knowing Our Ice by Claudio Aporta
   39. Stories and Legends of the Bering Strait Eskimos by Clark M. Garber
   40. Taparmiuni Kassiyulriit/Stebbins Dance Festival by Anatole Bogryaktuk & Charlie Steve
   41. The Alaska Paintings of Fred Machetanz by Russ Riemann
   42. The Bering Strait Crossing: A 21st Century Frontier Between East and West by James A. Oliver
   43. The Birds of Gambell and St. Lawrence Island, Alaska by Paul Lehman
   44. The Cruelest Miles by Gay Salisbury and Lance Salisbury
   45. The Eskimo About Bering Strait by Edward William Nelson
   46. The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman by Edna Wilder
   47. The Eskimos of Bering Strait, 1650-1898 by Dorothy Jean Ray
   48. The Inupiaq Eskimo Nations of Northwest Alaska by Ernest S. Burch Jr.
   49. The Kids from Nowhere written by George Guthridge
   50. The King Island Journal by Juan Muñoz
   51. The Last Days of Shishmaref by Dana Lixenberg
   52. The North American Indian Volume 20 – The Alaskan Eskimo, The Nunivak Eskimo of Hooper Bay, Eskimo of King island, Eskimo of Little Diomede island, Eskimo by Edward S. Curtis
   53. Unpublished Alaska by Edward S. Curtis
   54. Yupik Transitions: Change and Survival at Bering Strait, 1900-1960 by Krupnik & Michael Chlenov
   55. Our Stories Etched in Ivory: Qulip’yugut Iksiaqtuumaruat Tuugaami, Edited by Amy Phillips-Chan