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The Polar Bear in the Rock: Two Windows on the World – Nanuk Ujagammi: Unikkausikkut Kaujimajunullu Kaujisautinga

The Polar Bear in the Rock: Two Windows on the World – Nanuk Ujagammi: Unikkausikkut Kaujimajunullu Kaujisautinga

Labrador Institute of Memorial University
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Beneath Mount Sophie, across the bay from Nain, sits a single white boulder that looks like a polar bear. How did it get there?

Geologists call the rock that makes the ridge anorthosite, a group of hard rocks mostly made of the mineral anorthite. Anorthite is a plagioclase feldspar. It forms when a hot liquid rock, or magma, begins to cool. At a certain temperature, anorthite begins to form crystals in the magma. If the magma stays around that temperature for a long time, large amounts of anorthite collect to form anorthosite rock like that of the bear boulder.

But there is another story. A second 'window' on the world. It is the legend of a brave Inuit hunter - too old to join a hunting party - who protected the women and children of the camp from Nanuk, the polar bear. He used the only weapon he had: his drum, or Kilautik. Beating the drum, he calmed the crying children and howling dogs and stopped the polar bear dead in its tracks. That delightful story is retold here in English and Labrador Inuttut, the native language of Labrador's Inuit people.
Language
Multiple languages
Pages
24
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Labrador Institute of Memorial University
Release
March 01, 2010
ISBN 13
9780889014128

The Polar Bear in the Rock: Two Windows on the World – Nanuk Ujagammi: Unikkausikkut Kaujimajunullu Kaujisautinga

Labrador Institute of Memorial University
5/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Beneath Mount Sophie, across the bay from Nain, sits a single white boulder that looks like a polar bear. How did it get there?

Geologists call the rock that makes the ridge anorthosite, a group of hard rocks mostly made of the mineral anorthite. Anorthite is a plagioclase feldspar. It forms when a hot liquid rock, or magma, begins to cool. At a certain temperature, anorthite begins to form crystals in the magma. If the magma stays around that temperature for a long time, large amounts of anorthite collect to form anorthosite rock like that of the bear boulder.

But there is another story. A second 'window' on the world. It is the legend of a brave Inuit hunter - too old to join a hunting party - who protected the women and children of the camp from Nanuk, the polar bear. He used the only weapon he had: his drum, or Kilautik. Beating the drum, he calmed the crying children and howling dogs and stopped the polar bear dead in its tracks. That delightful story is retold here in English and Labrador Inuttut, the native language of Labrador's Inuit people.
Language
Multiple languages
Pages
24
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Labrador Institute of Memorial University
Release
March 01, 2010
ISBN 13
9780889014128

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