The Life and Times of Alaska Howard RockThe 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 of $1 billion and 40 million acres.
"Art and Eskimo Power is simply the best non-fiction biography ever to come out of Alaska."
--Ann Chandonnet, Anchorage Times"...Deeply moving..."
--Publisher's Weekly
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lael Morgan is an award-winning writer, historian, photographer, and journalist who has written numerous books about Alaska, including the best-selling GOOD TIME GIRLS OF THE ALASKA-YUKON GOLD RUSH. She was named Alaska's historian of the year in 1988.
