Raising Ourselves: A Gwitch'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River by Velma Wallis, James Grant

Raising Ourselves: A Gwitch'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River

Velma Wallis, James Grant

216 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
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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. Chopping wood. Hauling water from the river. Hunting moose. Catch...

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