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her own life to herself.

Although Jimmy is a joy and a blessing to Elsa, he also creates a
conflict for her. She does not know whether she should raise him as an Eskimo
like herself, or white like the father. Elsa takes advice from a lady she once
worked for, named Madame Beaulieu, the only white woman she knew. Elsa is soon
dressing Jimmy as the white do, and is keeping her hut clean and tidy. The
people from the Eskimo society are in awe at the beautiful baby with blond,
curly hair, and the ways in which Elsa is raising him. They always want to
borrow Jimmy and they even start to bathe their children as Elsa does, at the
same time every day. Elsa is proud to be the mother of the baby whom everybody
seems to want, and she tries to make decisions that are in the best interest of
her child. These decisions however, anger her mother, Winnie. Winnie believes
that Jimmy should be raised according to the ways of the Intuit only. So when
Elsa decided to go back to work for ...

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