Old Crow news : the best of Edith Josie
Type
Book
Authors
Category
General Library Collection
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Publication Year
1963
Publisher
The Whitehorse Star, Canada
Subject
Yukon -- Old Crow
Abstract
"Most readers of the Yukon's twice-weekly Whitehorse Star newspaper have never seen Old Crow, which is on the banks of the Porcupine River, and 80 miles inside the Arctic Circle. There are no roads, and to hire a plane is expensive. But they can read the daily comings and goings of the citizens of Old Crow in Edith Josie's column "Old Crow News."
Edith Josie is a Loucheaux Indian woman of the Vunta Kutchin tribe which lives at Old Crow. If the weather is good, and Connelly-Dawson aircraft can land at the tiny village to pick up the mail, her column appears just as she writes it in The Whitehorse Star. Yukoners talk about it, and wonder if the rat (muskrat) trapping is good at Crow Flats, and if there will be enough caribou for the winter. For Edith Josie writes simply and philosophically, about a way of life now nearly extinct — an almost complete preoccupation with food and shelter, life and death.
She lives with a blind grandmother and other members of the family, in a one room log house, which is similar to all other homes in Old Crow. Wood is used for heating and cooking, and ice is melted for water in winter time. There is no electricity, no telephone, no car.
Because The Whitehorse Star has been asked by so many people for back issues of Edith Josie's column, this booklet has been compiled. It is the Star's salute to a respected band of people, and to the woman whose writing has made them familiar friends to thousands of readers. Edith Josie will receive the royalties from this booklet."--page 1.
Edith Josie is a Loucheaux Indian woman of the Vunta Kutchin tribe which lives at Old Crow. If the weather is good, and Connelly-Dawson aircraft can land at the tiny village to pick up the mail, her column appears just as she writes it in The Whitehorse Star. Yukoners talk about it, and wonder if the rat (muskrat) trapping is good at Crow Flats, and if there will be enough caribou for the winter. For Edith Josie writes simply and philosophically, about a way of life now nearly extinct — an almost complete preoccupation with food and shelter, life and death.
She lives with a blind grandmother and other members of the family, in a one room log house, which is similar to all other homes in Old Crow. Wood is used for heating and cooking, and ice is melted for water in winter time. There is no electricity, no telephone, no car.
Because The Whitehorse Star has been asked by so many people for back issues of Edith Josie's column, this booklet has been compiled. It is the Star's salute to a respected band of people, and to the woman whose writing has made them familiar friends to thousands of readers. Edith Josie will receive the royalties from this booklet."--page 1.
Description
18 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm.
Number of Copies
1
