Puiguitkaat (pwē-weet-kaht)
Subtitle: the 1978 Elder's Conference
By: transcription and translation by Kisautaq-Leona Okakok ; edited and photographed by Gary Kean.
Contributors: Okakok, Kisautaq-Leona.; Kean, Gary.; North Slope Borough (Alaska). Commission on History and Culture.
Publisher: North Slope Borough, Commission on History and Culture
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Barrow, Alaska
Language: ipk; eng
Number of pages: 653
Subjects: Eskimos -- Alaska -- Social life and customs -- Congresses.; Alaska -- Social life and customs -- Congresses.
Description: Oral history of the Inupiat of the North Slope, as recorded at the 1978 Elders' Conference. Subjects cover: the creation of the sun, origin of Pt. Hope, first white man encounters, taboos, whaling, sewing, hunting, shamans, spells, amutets, etc. Text in English and Inupiaq.
Notes: English and Eskimo.
Includes indexes.