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The reindeer thief / written, directed and produced by Katrina Kassler Waters.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eskimos.
- Eskimos--Alaska--Legends.
- Gambell (Alaska).
- Gambell (Alaska)--History.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (12 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1988, c1987.
- Language Note:
- This edition in English.
- Summary:
- Like many St. Lawrence Island legends, this story is set in Siberia where Chukchi, the Reindeer People, live. Pelaasi, an elder from Gambell, speaks Siberian Yupik. His mythical story, about a man who goes out in search of a reindeer thief is an ungipaghaq, a tale that has been passed down unchanged through generations and believed to be based in truth.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 12, 2014).
- OCLC:
- 877874697
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