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To: Snowshoe who wrote (1646)	12/7/2005 9:09:28 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2253

That's the one! I don't know why I wasn't connecting on it with my searches. Thanks. I'll bookmark this.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (1646)	12/7/2005 10:19:55 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 2253

I just found this essay on the same subject. straightdope.com Ruesch wrote a sequel to Top of the World. I've read it, and it is good. I think it was called Back to Top of the World, or something like that. amazon.com I remember the conclusion where the Inuit protagonist left the white man's settlement in disgust. The ending revealed once again how these people were able to persevere under the harshest conditions imaginable. Nothing in our typical everyday experience prepares us or gives us the right to judge what they did to survive. Don't read the following if you hate spoilers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . He stalked off during a severe cold snap. He killed his enemy by urinating, and taking the icicle that formed before it hit the ground, stabbed the man with it. Then he defecated and formed the turd into a sort of hatchet, with which he chopped off the man's head. It was a long time ago that I read the book, but I think that's the gist of it.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (1646)	12/7/2005 11:12:05 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2253

I bought DNA kits through the National Geographic Genographic Project -- one for my dad, one for my mom, and one for my husband. My mom's mitochondrial DNA came back related to Siberians and Aleuts and North American Native Americans -- not surprising given that her mother's mother's mother was Turtle Mountain Anishinabe/Ojibwa/Chippewa. (Pretty good proof of the Siberian land bridge theory, too.) MtDNA goes mother to mother to mother -- but men have it, too, they just have the same as their mother. All of a woman's children, both male and female, will have the same mtDNA that she does. Similarly, Y chromosome DNA goes father to father to father. But only males have it. All of a man's sons will have the same Y chromosome DNA that he does. None of his daughters will because they don't have Y chromosome DNA. And then there is the regular nuclear DNA, which we get approximately 50-50 from each parent, all mixed up, a unique blend for each person (unless they're twins, triplets, etc., or clones). They don't use this to study "deep ancestry" like they do mtDNA and (to a lesser extent) Y chromosome DNA. Support the National Geographic Genographic Project -- and have some interesting fun. www5.nationalgeographic.com