Minuk: Ashes in the Pathway is a book in the Girls of Many Lands series relating to Minuk. It was released in 2002 and available with the doll and separately, but retired with the collection in 2005.
Characters
Chapter by Chapter Summary
Prologue
Chapter One: Spring 1890
Chapter Two: Butterflies
Chapter Three: The Village
Chapter Four: Mr. Hoff
Chapter Five: Summer
Chapter Six: Trading
Chapter Seven: Pockets
Chapter Eight: Questions
Chapter Nine: Lessons
Chapter Ten: Panruk
Chapter Eleven: School
Chapter Twelve: Boots
Chapter Thirteen: Speeches
Chapter Fourteen: Miss Oakes
Chapter Fifteen: Helper Jack
Chapter Sixteen: A Time for Drumming
Chapter Seventeen: Miss Danfort
Chapter Eighteen: Mellgar
Chapter Nineteen: Sickness
Chapter Twenty: Going On
Then and Now: Yup'ik Alaska
Discusses a girl's life in a Yup'ik village. Topics include:
- Where the Yup'ik Eskimo (Inuit) 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 European 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.
