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Description
Velma Wallis shares the love, loss, and struggle that mark her
coming of age in a two-room cabin at Fort Yukon, Alaska, where
she is born in 1960, the sixth of thirteen children. Family life is
defined by the business of survival: Haul water from the Yukon.
Kill a moose. Chop firewood. Feed the sled dogs staked around
the cabin. Run the trap line. Catch salmon. It is a time of innocence
and laughter, too, as the children escape into a world of
play under the midnight sun.
The once-migratory family has settled at the confluence of two
she is born in 1960, the sixth of thirteen children. Family life is
defined by the business of survival: Haul water from the Yukon.
Kill a moose. Chop firewood. Feed the sled dogs staked around
the cabin. Run the trap line. Catch salmon. It is a time of innocence
and laughter, too, as the children escape into a world of
play under the midnight sun.
Author: Velma Wallis
Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 218
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.06w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9780972494472
ISBN10: 0972494472
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | Indigenous
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs