Amaroq means "giant wolf" in the Inuit culture.
A bunch of hunters kill him
Amaroq died from injuries sustained during a fight with other wolves. Julie found him wounded and nursed him as he passed away.
In Julie and the Wolves, Amaroq is the leader of the wolf pack and becomes a step father to Julie/Miyax. Julie gets the wolves to accept her as a wolf by getting a wolf to regurgitate food and eating it. Amaroq treats Julie as a wolf pup and allows her to sleep in their den and shares caribou with her.
Amaroq does mean wolf. Amaroq is the name for the giant wolf in Inuit culture.
The main characters in "Julie of the Wolves" are Miyax, known as Julie, a young Inupiat girl who befriends a wolf pack, and the wolves themselves, specifically Amaroq, the leader of the pack, and Kapu, a young male wolf who becomes Julie's companion. These characters drive the story's themes of survival, independence, and the connection between humans and nature.
Julie ( Miyax- her eskimo name) is an eskimo runing away from her autistic husband Daniel, to protect herself from him. She desides to go to San Francisco where her penpal lives. On her way there she gets lost and ends up in the tundra. In the tundra she meets a pack of wolves who take care of her. She acts like a wolf and gets accepted in the pack. They face many challenges and are one the edge of surviving. When hunting season come around she nows it is not safe. A plane used for hunting is flying all around the area where they are living. The wolves are in trouble and might not survive...you read the ending to find out what happens. :)Its by Jean Craighead George and its called Julie and the Wolves
She is Julie of the wolves, if that is what you are asking. She has a different eskimo name.
the main characters in Julie of the Wolves are Miyax/Julie and the Wolves.
The series "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George consists of three books in the following order: "Julie of the Wolves", "Julie" and "Julie's Wolf Pack".
Julie of the Wolves was created in 1972.
There were three books in total: Julie of the Wolves, Julie, and Julie's Wolf Pack.
In the book "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George, the wolves are described as having a gray coloring. The pups are also described as having a gray coat, which helps them blend in with their surroundings in the Arctic tundra.