Animal Stories from Eskimo Land

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Renée Coudert Riggs. Animal Stories from Eskimo Land

Animal Stories from Eskimo Land

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FOREWORD

THE JOURNEY TO ESKIMO LAND

IVANGO OR THE LOST SISTER

THE ROBIN, THE CROW AND THE FOX

THE PROUD MOUSE

THE CROW AND THE DAYLIGHT

THE ORPHAN BOY

A RACE BETWEEN A REINDEER AND A TOM-COD

WHY THEY HAVE SUMMER ON ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND

THE LOST SON

THE CROW AND THE OWL

THE RUNNING STICK

THE TREACHEROUS CROW AND HIS COUSIN, THE MINK

GOOD AND BAD WEATHER

HOW THE WHITE WHALES HAPPENED

A GIANT AND HIS DRUM

LOVEK AND SERANAK

THE CARIBOU

A FOX STORY

MI-E-RAK-PUK

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Renée Coudert Riggs

Adapted from the Original Eskimo Stories Collected by Dr. Daniel S. Neuman

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They landed near a sandy cliff and walked carefully behind one another so as to make only one track in the sand with their mukluks. Their mukluks are their seal boots. Then they dug a hole in the ground, put the boat in it and hid.

The next day while Ivango was peeping out of the hole, he saw a man walking toward the cliff from the opposite direction from which they had come. When he reached the footprints on the sand, which looked as though only one person had walked up from the beach, he stopped and examined them carefully for a long time, then, jumping over, so as not to step on them, he went his way. After a while the man came back. This time he did not stop, but jumped over the footprints and went on. On his back he was carrying a lot of birds.

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