Haig-Brown, Roderick.

The Whale People - Madiera Park, BC : Harbour Publishing, 1962. - 206 p. : 20 cm.

Reprint 2003.

Young Atlin must one day succeed his father Nit-gass, a whaling chief of the Hotsath people... a whole community is counting on him. Nothing thrills Atlin more than chasing a whale on the open sea, but he must also learn to handle a trickier quary: a hostile chief from a neighbouring village.

ISBN: 1550172778

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Indians of North America -- Pacific Coast -- Juveniele Fiction.
Whaling -- Juveniel Fiction.
Indians of North America -- Fishing -- Juvenile Fiction.