Each appointee must read at least 400 pages from any of the following books PRIOR to arriving on the field and receiving full ministry assignment.

Start by reading the “Brief History of SEND North“

• Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska by Michael D'Orso
• The Grieving Indian by Arthur H. & George McPeek
• Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River by Velma Wallis
• Into the Copper River Valley: The letters and ministry of Vincent James Joy, pioneer missionary to Alaska by Faye E. Crandall
• Coming into the Country by John McPhee
• Looking for Alaska by Peter Jenkins
• Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest by Richard Nelson (If you can find the 1970's PBS videos of this it's a must see!)
• Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
• Understanding Folk Religions by Hiebert, Shaw, and Tienou
• End-of-Earth People: The Arctic Sahtu Dene by Bern Will Brown
• The People of Denendeh: Ethnohistory of the Indians of Canada's Northwest Territories by June Helm
• Our voices: Native Stories of Alaska and the Yukon edited by James Ruppert and John Bernet
• Han: People of the River by Craig Mishler and William E. Simeone
• Nunavut Generations: Change and Continuity in Canadian Inuit Communities by Ann McElroy
• On Being a Missionary by Thomas Hale and Gene Daniels
• Mushing to the Far North

• Alaska Dispatch News
• Alaska History and Culture Studies
• Alaska Magazine
• First Nations in Canada