People from our side: An Eskimo life story in words and photographs : an Inuit record of Seekooseelak, the land of the people of Cape Dorset, Baffin Island

Pitseolak, Peter

Indiana University Press

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

<p>An account of two Eskimo hunters' narrow escape from an ice field that is swiftly moving out to sea.</p>

Peter Pitseolak's Escape From Death

Children's Books

Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence

Peter Pitseolak's escape from death

A true story of survival in the dangerous Arctic waters, by a modern-day Eskimo. The writer goes into the details of hunting for walrus, the customs of modern Eskimos, and the reality of life in Cape Dorset. Written and illustrated by Peter Pitseolak; introduction by Dorothy Eber. Unpaginated [ca. 48 pages]; 21 full-page color plates; 8 x 7 inches.

Biographies & Memoirs

MCCLELLAND STEWART

People from Our Side: A Life Story with Photographs and Oral Biography

<p>The text of People from Our Side consists of Peter Pitseolak's manuscript -- originally written in syllabics -- and a narrative drawn from interviews conducted by Dorothy Eber with the help of young Inuit interpreters. Peter Pitseolak learned the system of reading and writing brought by the missionaries and from an early age formed the habit of keeping a diary. He took his first photograph for a white man who was afraid to approach a polar bear and later, in the early 1940s, acquired his own camera and taught himself, with the help of his wife Aggeok, to develop films in igloo, tent, and hut. His pictures catch, as no white photographer's could, the authentic quality and detail of Eskimo life in the last days of the camp system. Sweeping from nomadic times to the early 1970s, Peter Pitseolak provides a frank and vigorous account of how change came to Baffin Island. A realist who knew he was providing a social history of a vanishing way of life, his story is a farewell to traditional camp life and to Seekooseelak -- where the people of Cape Dorset once had their camps.</p>

Arts & Photography

Eber, Dorothy Harley

Hanson, Ann

History & Criticism

McGill-Queen's University Press

The text of People from Our Side consists of Peter Pitseolak's manuscript -- originally written in syllabics -- and a narrative drawn from interviews conducted by Dorothy Eber with the help of young Inuit interpreters. Peter Pitseolak learned the system of reading and writing brought by the missionaries and from an early age formed the habit of keeping a diary. He took his first photograph for a white man who was afraid to approach a polar bear and later, in the early 1940s, acquired his own camera and taught himself, with the help of his wife Aggeok, to develop films in igloo, tent, and hut. His pictures catch, as no white photographer's could, the authentic quality and detail of Eskimo life in the last days of the camp system. Sweeping from nomadic times to the early 1970s, Peter Pitseolak provides a frank and vigorous account of how change came to Baffin Island. A realist who knew he was providing a social history of a vanishing way of life, his story is a farewell to traditional camp life and to Seekooseelak -- where the people of Cape Dorset once had their camps.

People From Our Side: A Life Story With Photographs

Hurtig Publishers

People from our side: An Inuit record of Seekooseelak, the land of the people of Cape Dorset, Baffin Island : a life story with photographs

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