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 rivers, surrendering much of their language, culture, and…mehr
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 rivers, surrendering much of their language, culture, and religion to white teachers, traders, and missionaries. A knot of silent pain remains from flu epidemics that claimed many loved ones. There is much drinking when the monthly government checks arrive. That is when the pain comes out of hiding. When Velma Wallis is twelve, her father dies. She and her siblings fend for themselves as their mother descends into depression and alcoholism. Velma follows her own path, a journey of persistence, recovery, reconciliation, and ultimately of finding her own strength.
The Dream of Vixen Tor is Ken's fourth book exploring regions of consciousness. His is fulfilling his dream of investigating human awareness as an active participant, not simply as a researcher seemingly removed from that which is being examined. Charles Duffie is the author of The Mole and the Owl, Sailing Through, and the illustrator of Little Spiritkeeper. He is also a team member if Sundog, a new media company based in Fargo, North Dakota. At age eight Harriet Louisa Coleman won a poetry contect for "Turquoise" which was published in Cosmic, a book compiling the work of young poets from Hampshire, South of England, where she now lives with her two brothers.
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