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Uksuum Cauyai: The Drums of Winter TrailerJoe Sun TrailerIn Iirgu's Time Trailer
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Uksuum Cauyai: The Drums of Winter Trailer (1989)
16 March 1989
This film gives an intimate look at a way of life of which most of us have seen only glimpses. Dance was once at the heart of Yupik Eskimo spiritual and social life.
At the Time of Whaling Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
Gambell, Alaska is a Yup'ik-speaking Eskimo community on St. Lawrence Island on the Bering Sea. Here, as on the coast, sea mammals are still the major source of food.
In Iirgu's Time Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
IIrgu is an elder from the Siberian Yupik Eskimo village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. As two grandchildren listen, IIrgu recounts events in Gambell from the time the first missionaries arrived.
Tununeremiut: The People of Tununak Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
Four sequences, filmed over a two-month period, portray aspects of the lives of the people of Tununak, a village on the south-western coast of Alaska.
From the First People Trailer (1977)
01 January 1977
This is a film about change and contemporary life in Shungnak, a village on the Kobuk River in northwestern Alaska, 75 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
On the Spring Ice Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
Walrus as well as whales are hunted by the Eskimos of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. As the film opens, an old man tells of the dangers of moving ice, how people used to drift on such ice and never return.
Joe Sun Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
Immaluuraq ("Joe Sun" in English) grew up moving among seasonal camps in the Kobuk River region of Alaska now resides in Shungnak.
