Eskimos - A Changing Culture (1971)

1971 · Short film · 16 min · dir. Wayne Mitchell

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Synopsis

Features the Alaskan Eskimos in Mekoyuk village, Nunivak Island, Bering Sea. The film debates the extent to which changes in family patterns, values and other elements of Alaskan culture are related to changes in technology and examines the changes in the last 50 years in the culture of the Eskimos of Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea. Showing eating, hunting, fishing, reindeer roundup, a packing plant and native store, the film also describes how the children leave the village for four years to go to high school in the city.

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Details

Director

Wayne Mitchell

Running time

16 minutes

Subjects on the Internet Archive

• geography
• eskimos
• Inuit
• Nunivak
• Bering Sea
• Mekoyuk
• Alaska

Cast & crew

• Wayne Mitchell Director

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