Ice whale

By Jean Craighead George

Subjects: Human-animal relationships, Eskimos, fiction, Eskimos, Fiction, Children's fiction, Whales, Human-animal relationships, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Yupik Eskimos, Arctic regions, fiction, Whales, fiction, Bowhead whale

Description: In 1848, ten-year-old Toozak, a Yupik Eskimo, sees a whale being born and is told by a shaman that he and his descendants must protect that whale, which Toozak names Siku, as long as it lives.