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When Robert Service wrote: Strange things are done in the land of the midnight sun...he wasn't exaggerating. Up north in Alaska, strange things have certainly happened and they are still happening. There are vast, unpopulated areas of the great land which have more of the strange, the mysterious, the ghostly, the unexplained and the supernatural than most of the inhabited world. In this collection of short stories the reader will find tales of...

The collected stories in this book represent fifty years of visiting indigenous, autochtonnes, and First Nations people in Canada. Relatives, elders, and tribal story tellers gave me these stories, which I offer back to Canadian and American readers of Native American fiction to honour my heritage and culture. In these pages you will find Canadian tales from Labrador and Newfoundland in the East to British Columbia in the West, and from Nunavu...

Twelve Native American Algonkin Tales of the Supernatural in Alaska & Canada.

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What is this thing called love? Love might be a moment's madness, an emotional eruption of insanity. The first embers of love can burst into a firestorm to consume you or it can be like a soothing rain. Such are the love's verities. Alaska is the home of the strongest passions love can induce: love and passion are part of the landscape. Long cold nights produce peculiar effects. Love changes Northern Hearts and their behaviours.

Collected short stories of fifty years among Native and Mixed Blood people of Western and Central Alaska. The Native American author writes fictionalized accounts about the lives of these Alaskans. The tales cover a broad scope of all human experience.

Songs, stories, legends and chants of the Eskimo people of the Arctic Rim and Alaska (the Yupik, Inuit, Inupiat, Chukchi, Inuvialiut, Loucheux, Denendeh and other Northern First Nations) are the material from which the word-sketches of Raven's Children are made.The author prefers not to call this collection "poetry, " but in one way that is what this book is: poetry. Here then is a sort of poetry where stories of life's experiences are distill...

Songs, stories, legends and chants of the Eskimo people of the Arctic Rim and Alaska (the Yupik, Inuit, Inupiat, Chukchi, Inuvialiut, Loucheux, Denendeh and other Northern First Nations) are the material from which the word-sketches of Raven's Children are made.The author prefers not to call this collection "poetry, " but in one way that is what this book is: poetry. Here then is a sort of poetry where stories of life's experiences are distill...