The Importance of Friendship in the Villages of North Alaska

Sam found he did not have the social skills necessary to quickly establish new friendships since those skills were never learned at home. Sam interpreted this friendliness as courting behaviour and within a week or so was pining after his girl Sally in quotes. Many young women born in North Alaska now live with white husbands in urban areas of Alaska, or the lower 48 states in quotes. Eskimo girls from North Alaska seem to acculturate into Western society with perhaps greater ease than the boys. The female role of housewife in the villages parallels that in Western society. This is created in excess of young eligible bachelors, many of whom aggressively seek female companionship,. many times with the married women