When I was 5, I listed several things I wanted to be when I grew up: teacher, archaeologist (my mother had wanted to be that and had explained what it was), author, and mother. I have always thought of myself as an archaeologist of...

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He wasn't nominated for an Oscar for his role as a Native American Marine in "Flags of Our Fathers," but Adam Beach still feels like a winner."Just to hear that people were upset that I didn't get nominated really means a lot," he says of...

Across northern Canada stretch the Barrens, a region of swamps in summer and windswept, ice-encrusted plains in winter. Into this forbidding country, young Jamie Macnair and his Cree friend Awasin [the protagonists of "Lost in the Barrens"] accompany a hunting party of desperate Chipeweyans—the tribe of the Deer Eaters. The boys are separated from the rest of the group, and, with winter coming, are forced to hole up. How they face up to their predicament and learn—the hard way&#x...