I think the story would have worked much better if the Slone couple were
Yup'ik Native Americans like everyone else in their village. I have the feeling that they were originally meant to be Native in the novel, but perhaps some changes were made for the film version. Has anyone read the novel? Were they Scandinavian whites in the novel? If so, did the novel explain why the two of them had lived their whole lives in an isolated Yup'ik village?
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