a Copper Eskimo bow
It took everybody in the village to pull the whale out onto the ice. They used a block and tackle they had got from the white sailors. Then, after the villagers had cut up the whale, they held a great feast. There was plenty of meat and blubber for all—including the dogs—and whalebone to be traded for more bullets and guns.
NEIGHBORS
Not very far from Hilltop's village lived people that the white men called Copper Eskimos because they had learned to use copper for some of their tools.
A Siberian Eskimo teacher uses books written in the Eskimo language.
Other neighbors along the coast did a new kind of work after white men came. In their high, waterproof boots, they waded into the ocean and chipped away the black rocks near the edge of the water. The rocks were really coal which the white men wanted and taught them to use. Eskimos have always kept on learning how to make the most of the land in which they live.
A Copper Eskimo cache