Umiak type of boat. In the Eastern Arctic, where the umiak was rarely used for hunting, it was used mainly as summer transport for women and children, while men travelled by kayak, and thus was known as a "woman's boat". Umiak The umiak, umialak, umiaq, umiac, oomiac, oomiak, ongiuk, or anyak is a type of open skin boat used by both Yupik and Inuit, and was originally found in all coastal areas from Siberia to Greenland. First arising in Thule times, it has traditionally been used in summer to move people and possessions to seasonal hunting grounds and for hunting whales
Red Kayak Red Kayak Red Kayak is a young adult novel by American author Priscilla Cummings. It was first published in 2004. Red Kayak is written from the point of view of a thirteen-year-old boy named Braden Parks who is part of a poor crab-fishing family on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. A wealthy family, the DiAngelos buy a property Brady and his friends are used to enjoying near the water. One day, Brady sees a red kayak owned by the DiAngelos heading into the river in dangerous weather. The narration of Brady from the future, which is the literal voice of