Arctic historian Kenn Harper gathers the best of his columns about Inuit history in this exciting collection. Harper shares the life histories of several Inuit living in precontact times, pulling back the curtain on the harsh and at times politically fraught conditions with which they had to contend. The result of extensive interviews, research, and travel across the Arctic, these amazing, short life histories are tales of survival, struggles against adversity, and triumph, and provide readers with a detailed understanding of each person's specific time and place.