Art and Eskimo Power: The Life and Times of Alaskan Howard Rock

by Lael Morgan

Book Overview

At Howard Rock's birth, a shaman predicted that he would become a great man. Born in 1911 in a sod igloo in Point Hope, an ancient Eskimo village, Howard became an accomplished artist and crusading newspaper editor who helped to defend his people from a controversial Atomic Energy Commission proposal to excavate a harbor near his native village with an atomic blast. Art and Eskimo Power chronicles the life of this influential and artist, editor,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1602230218
• ISBN13: 9781602230217
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: University of Alaska Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A courageous Eskimo journalist

The shaman predicted that Howard Rock would become a great man. He was born in 1911 in a sod igloo in Point Hope, an ancient Eskimo village in northwest Alaska where the people had hunted whales and lived off the land for centuries. Instead of becoming a hunter, Howard became an accomplished artist and crusading newspaper editor. He helped defend his people from a controversial Atomic Energy Commission proposal to excavate a harbor near the village with an above-ground atomic blast. Then Rock founded the Tundra Times and helped Alaska's Native people press their aboriginal land claims before Congress, ultimately winning a settlement. Deeply moving.