The Desperate People

THEY COULD SURVIVE ANYTHING IN THE ARCTIC WILDERNESS--EXCEPT THE WHITE MAN.They were rich, the caribou were abundant. Their dogs were many and strong. The children in the tents were happy, and there was never any fear of going hungry. Then came the ruthless white man's civilization. And with it came slaughter of the herds, starvation of the flesh, and torture of the spirit. Courageous, proud in their age-old way of life, and now fighting to save themselves from extinction. From inside Front Cover: Death was coming. For many days, the woman Kooyuk had refused her bit of food so that the children might have more. Now she stripped off her rags and, naked, stumbled into the white night to die. The orphan Pameo, four years old, had no hope of life. She was a woman-child and worthless, the last to be fed. She starved until her huddled little body no longer shivered beneath its tattered robes. And close to the dying Eskimos, and their already dead dogs, stood the warm, well-stocked camp of their civilized white guardians.