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

One day the old grandmother said to the little girl, “I am sorry for that poor man; he is so unhappy. You go to him and ask him to come and eat with us. His wife loved you. He w...

The father robin, whose name was Kaytak, thought them the most beautiful birds in the world, and brought them fine worms and little bugs, and watched over them very carefully.

When it began to be dark, some one crept up to the window hole and said, “Hello.” It was the kind man, and happy indeed was the poor little boy to hear the voice of his friend.

The next day the second son said that he must go after his brother. So he went too; and after him the third. At last the fourth followed the others and the parents found themsel...

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Long ago, near the mouth of the Copper Mine River, which flows into the Arctic River, there lived an enormous giant whose name was Mi-e-rak-puk, which in the Eskimo language mea...