John and Susie Alook are Eskimo children who live in Alaska today.
Although they speak Eskimo at home, they go to school and study
English. They learn to read, write and count.
Long ago, when Papik and Milak were children, no Eskimo could count
beyond twenty--the number of fingers and toes he had. Any number bigger
than that was just "more-than-one-can-count." Some Eskimos only
bothered to count to six. That was enough, because they had so few
things they needed to count. If they caught a lot of fish, nobody cared
to figure out how many. The important thing was that the whole village
had enough to eat.
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