The Eskimos of Hudson Bay and Alaska

Indigenous peoples have called the Arctic home for more than 5,000 years. The rich histories, lifeways, and diverse cultural practices of the Inuit have enabled them to survive in a forbidding landscape, which ranges from Siberia across Alaska into Canada and Greenland. The music on this album includes Inuit dance songs, hunting songs, game songs, animal calls, animal stories, and story songs. Most have no instrumental accompaniment. American music collector Laura Boulton (1899–1980) made these recordings in the Arctic communities of Baker Lake, Chesterfield Inlet, and Southampton Island in what is now known as Nunavut, Canada (formerly Northwest Territories), and Point Barrow, Alaska (now known as Utqiagvik, Alaska).