When the nurse arrives, she and Minuk quickly bond. Hoff explains that no man would want to marry her if she were educated. She wants to attend school and learn to read but is forbidden because she is a girl.
The more she listens, the better she becomes. Minuk is exposed to the English language and with the assistance of the Hoff's young son, David, she learns to speak it.
Hoff, doing domestic chores and sewing, while she does the missionary work and cooks. Minuk's grandmother and others from the village go to work for Mrs. However, Yup'ik rules require that they be courteous to the strangers and at least listen to them when they request to speak. While some are eager for the benefits that the whites bring, others do not want them tampering with their beliefs and traditions. The people have mixed emotions about this development. They plan to build and operate a missionary school in the village. When Minuk's family returns from their hunting trip, they learn that a family of whites have arrived in the village and built a home. This is Minuk's story of her people's interactions with the first missionaries in their area. It contains photographs of girls in 1884 and the present, clothing, needle cases, a mother with child, girls in a mission school and the Russian Orthodox cathedral at Sitka. There is a wonderful section at the end of the story, "Then & Now: A Girl's Life, Yup'ik Alaska." It tells about the lifestyle, clothing, culture and history of the Yup'ik. Although this character is fictional, the story is based upon the actual events as they were recorded in the journals and documents of persons that were among the Yup'ik during this time. It focuses on a 12-year-old girl, Minuk, in an 1890 Yup'ik Eskimo village in western Alaska. Minuk: Ashes in the Pathway is one of the books in the series Girls of Many Lands and is from the American Girl section. Hill's visits to a family member in jail inspired her to write Do Not Pass Go.Rambles.NET: Kirkpatrick Hill, Minuk: Ashes in the Pathway Her fourth book with McElderry Books, Dancing at the Odinochka, was a Junior Library Guild Selection. Her three earlier books, Toughboy and Sister, Winter Camp, and The Year of Miss Agnes, have all been immensely popular. She was an elementary school teacher for more than thirty years, most of that time in the Alaskan "bush." Hill is the mother of six children and the grandmother of eight. Kirkpatrick Hill lives in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Hill's visits to a family member in jail inspired her to write Do Not Pass Go.
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