Describes two summers spent in the Barrens west of Hudson's Bay among the fast-dying race of Eskimos, the People of the Deer.

While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

Retells one of many versions of how an Eskimo maiden became goddess of the sea.

Using a traditional technique called storyknifing, two Yupik Eskimo sisters share a story about the mice that made a nest out of tinsel from the Christmas tree.

When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man.

A small Eskimo boy discovers that Mother's lap is a very special place with room for everyone.