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Eskimos - A Changing Culture (1971)

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

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…

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Director
Wayne Mitchell
Running time
16 minutes

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