
The Bone Woman of the Arctic Ice
Long ago, before the wind whispered through snow-dusted caribou hides, before humans built their shelters from ice and bone, the Inuit people told of a spirit who lived beneath the ice , Aqpiqsuuq, the Bone Woman. In a small seal-hunting village along the Arctic shore, there lived a girl named Ijira. She was not like the others. Her eyes always