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Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River Trade paperback - 2002
by Velma Wallis
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- Title Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River
- Author Velma Wallis
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition Revised
- Condition Used - Very Good - Cash
- Pages 216
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Epicenter Press, Canada
- Date September 2002
- Features Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 800744
- ISBN 9780972494472 / 0972494472
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 9.04 x 6.06 x 0.63 in (22.96 x 15.39 x 1.60 cm)
- Reading level 980
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Geographic Orientation: Alaska
- Library of Congress subjects Wallis, Velma, Alcoholism - Alaska - Fort Yukon
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002111759
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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First line
Early one morning I happened to awaken as my father quietly got ready to check his fish wheel.
From the rear cover
Born in 1960, the sixth of thirteen children, Velma Wallis comes of age in a two-room log cabin in remote Fort Yukon, Alaska. Life is defined by the business of living off the land. Chop wood. Haul water from the river. Hunt moose. Catch salmon. Trap fur. Take care of the dogs. For a thousand years, the Gwich'in clan had followed migratory animals across the north. But two generations before, the people had settled where the Porcupine River flows into the Yukon. Now, the Wallis family has a post office box and an account at the general store, and Velma listens to Wolf Man Jack on armed forces radio. The author discovers that her people have surrendered their language, traditional values, and religion to white teachers, traders, and missionaries. Flu epidemics have claimed many loved ones. Village elders seem like strangers from another land, and in a way they are. There is much drinking when the monthly government checks come, and that is when the pain comes out of hiding. RAISING OURSELVES is a gritty, sobering, yet irresistible story filled with laughter even as generations of Gwich'in grief seeps from past to present. But hope pushes back hopelessness, and a new strength and wisdom emerge.
