Books published by International Polar Institute Press

An interesting and captivating narrative about identity, social heritage and personal development.

The goal of The Man Who Became a Caribou is to transmit to the reader the vast knowledge of the Gwich'in of caribou and its role in their lives, how it shapes their worldview and how they live and how it is used.

The Los Angeles Times praises the wordplay and the richness of Bergland's poetry, "erupting through deep forest, with all the exuberance and reticence of Emily Dickinson."

A "fatherless" Danish/Greenlandic girl exemplifies a generation of outcast mixed blood children denied their legal dual citizenship rights

Famine moves a Greenlandic family into a new settlement in the 1850's where the joys and tragedies of pre-Christian times are depicted