Neela: Victory Song

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Neela: Victory Song is part of the Girls of Many Lands series, dealing with Neela. It was included with Neela when she was purchased and could be purchased separately.

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Contents
[hide]*1 Facts
 * 2 Characters
 * 3 Chapter by Chapter Summary
 * 3.1 Prologue
 * 3.2 Chapter One: Spring 1890
 * 3.3 Chapter Two: Butterflies
 * 3.4 Chapter Three: The Village
 * 3.5 Chapter Four: Mr. Hoff
 * 3.6 Chapter Five: Summer
 * 3.7 Chapter Six: Trading
 * 3.8 Chapter Seven: Pockets
 * 3.9 Chapter Eight: Questions
 * 3.10 Chapter Nine: Lessons
 * 3.11 Chapter Ten: Panruk
 * 3.12 Chapter Eleven: School
 * 3.13 Chapter Twelve: Boots
 * 3.14 Chapter Thirteen: Speeches
 * 3.15 Chapter Fourteen: Miss Oakes
 * 3.16 Chapter Fifteen: Helper Jack
 * 3.17 Chapter Sixteen: A Time for Drumming
 * 3.18 Chapter Seventeen: Miss Danfort
 * 3.19 Chapter Eighteen: Mellgar
 * 3.20 Chapter Nineteen: Sickness
 * 3.21 Chapter Twenty: Going On
 * 3.22 Then and Now: Yup'ik Alaska
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Facts Edit

 * Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
 * Illustrators: Troy Howell
 * First Published: 2002
 * Setting: 1939

Characters Edit
Only in Neela:
 * Neela

Then and Now: Yup'ik Alaska Edit
Discusses a girl's life in a Yup'ik village. Topics include:
 * Where the Yup'ik Eskimo lived
 * Villages and traditional housing.
 * Alaskan climate and the importance of good clothing.
 * What the Yup'ik people wore.
 * How Yup'ik women made clothing and the importance of sewing to girls.
 * The first Euorpean explorers and what they brought with them.
 * Epidemics American and Russian traders and missionaries triggered.
 * Why villages and traditions were abandoned.
 * What the missionaries wanted the Yup'ik to do.
 * Yup'ik children today.