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The role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the five Pacific Eskimo villages as revealed by the earthquakeessay 1970 • Davis, Nancy Yaw & National Research Council (U.S.) Committee On The Alaska Earthquake
Alutiiq • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
The importance of the Russian Orthodox church to the Pacific Eskimo was revealed in the villagers' descriptions of events during and after the 1964 earthquake. A variety of responses was discovered in the five villages studied, and the range of perva...