Kamik: An Inuit Puppy Story art theory and traditional knowledge learned from

and traditional knowledge learned from elders along with personal reflections on her own journey learning Blackfeet stories

coercive assimilation

suffer violent victimization by outsiders

the ways in which events big and small have affected him

Deloria (Dakota)

Kamik: An Inuit Puppy Story art theory and traditional knowledge learned fromWhen Jake finally gets a puppy to call his own, all he can think about is the fast, strong sled dog that his puppy will become. But Kamik is far from an obedient sled dog. He won t listen, he tracks mud all over the house, and he s a lot more work than Jake ever thought a puppy could be. But after a visit with his grandfather, who raised many puppies of his own while living out on the land, Jake learns that Inuit have been raising puppies just like