Wapun Meadow bloodgrand

"she is not the only one," the seal hunter said back, but it would show that this was not a brag, that it was a sense of frustration for the man. "i smile at women. i tell them they are beautiful. but i do not hide that i am married, for i am not ashamed of it. yet it is in the telling of this marriage that the women grow angry, as if there is not enough of me."
angry. hurt. he had even been accused of selfishness.
what selfishness was it to offer hunting and pleasure where he roamed!
"the women of this place, dutch, they are made for one man. seal hunter women enjoy any man they choose while having a husband. we lie with one another through the long dark and the children born in spring belong to all the village." the purpose of marriage was the offering of names, the lineages that bound them to the very first people upon the sea ice.