First day back to school. Esso village has a mixed population of mostly Evens and Russians. Native people make up 30 % of the inhabitants. Bystrinsky Park, Kamchatka, Russian Federation. Photo: Emma Wilson, 1999

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The Arctic is a Homeland, by Piers Vitebsky. http://www.thearctic.is Copyright Stefansson Arctic Institute and individual authors ©2000 Developed in partnership with the EU Raphael Programme