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The Reindeer Thief

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The Reindeer Thief

Price: $275.00
Filmmaker Name: Katrina Waters, Sarah Elder, Leonard Kamerling
Film Length: 13 min
Film Year: 1988
Duration: 0-20 min
Decade: 1980s
Series: Alaska Native Heritage Film series
Secondary Creator: Executive producers Sarah Elder, Leonard Kamerling
Color: color
Region: North America
Subject: Indigenous Studies
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Like many St. Lawrence Island legends, this story is set in Siberia where Chukchi, the Reindeer People, live.

Pelaasi, an elder from Gambell, speaks Siberian Yupik. His mythical story, about a man who goes out in search of a reindeer thief, is an ungipaghaq, a tale that has been passed down unchanged through generations and believed to be based in truth.

Films in the Alaska Native Heritage Film series:

Note on Term "Eskimo":
The films in this series make use of the name "Eskimo." While once broadly applied, it is a perjorative term and considered offensive. While the inception of the word is a matter of debate, it is no longer used or applied in our film catalog. The context in which the term appears in this series is an acknowledged relic of a colonial past, presented in its original version. DER apologizes for any offense caused.

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