"Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George gives us a glance into the life of a modern day Eskimo. Miyax, whose English name is Julie, finds herself, after a series of events, out living on the vast tundra of Alaska. With nothing more than the traditions of her people and a pack of wolves to keep her alive, she some how struggles for life every single day she is out there. Throughout the book we see Miyax/Julie fighting to keep her traditional values. She is constantly trying to decide what things she must keep and what things need to be changed and we are invited into that inner struggle as the reader. After reading this book the reader will better understand the Eskimo's, and other native people's, plight to keep up their traditions while living in a very different world from the one where their traditions were born.
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