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Bird Girl & the Man Who Followed the Sun: An Athabaskan Indian Legend from Alaska Hardcover - 2003

by Velma Wallis

From the author of the bestselling Two Old Women comes the story of two Native Americans who break the strict taboos of their communal culture in their quests for freedom and adventure in the unknown. For a headstrong young woman, it means defying her family's expectations to brave life on her own. For a curious young man, it means forsaking the safety of his homeland.


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Velma Wallis, author of the award-winning TWO OLD WOMEN, brings forth another story from the Athabaskans of Alaska. In a cold, harsh country where the sun disappears for much of the long winter, Indians and Eskimos struggle against nature and one another to survive. Against this stark landscape, Wallis skillfully interweaves the stories of two rebels. Bird Girl, an independent young Indian woman, defies her family's expectations by refusing to become a traditional wife and mother. Instead she chooses to brave life on her own as a hunter, risking starvation, isolation, and attacks by her people's enemies, the Eskimos. Along the way she meets Daagoo, a restless young dreamer who leaves behind his homeland to journey souht in search of the legendary Land of the Sun. Readers will be captivated by this profound myth about two young people who wander far from their culture's deeply held traditions and eventually must find a way to come home again.

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  • Title Bird Girl & the Man Who Followed the Sun: An Athabaskan Indian Legend from Alaska
  • Author Velma Wallis
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Epicenter Press (WA), Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
  • Date June 1, 2003
  • ISBN 9780945397342 / 0945397348
  • Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.55 x 5.31 x 1 in (19.18 x 13.49 x 2.54 cm)
  • Reading level 950
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Pacific Northwest
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
    • Geographic Orientation: Alaska
  • Library of Congress subjects Athapascan Indians - Folklore, Tales - Alaska
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96032679
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 11/15/1996, Page 555
  • Library Journal, 02/01/1997, Page 88
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/28/1996, Page 0
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