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Title: Raising Ourselves: A Gwich' in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River by Velma Wallis, James L., Sr. Grant ISBN: 0-9724944-7-2 Publisher: Epicenter Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Thank You, Velma
Comment: I can't really say anything else. Just Thank You. My mother grew up during the "Great Depression" here in the USA. She raised several children alone. Your story is very much like hers. My oldest sister doesn't "read books" (????!) but I made her read the book jacket on this book, and she cried.
Oh the trials and tribulations we go through as human beings. And all the feelings we share. I look forward to more stories from you, and THANK YOU AGAIN, lovey. Thank you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sad, but true.....
Comment: This story reminded me of my own growing-up years, not in Alaska, but on a reservation, nevertheless. It is a powerful book and reminds me of the strength our people have to survive, despite the odds, and interference of another culture. Velma, thanks for sharing in an honest and sensitive way, and letting us know we were not alone.
Rating: 5
Summary: What it was like grow up as a Native American in Alaska
Comment: Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming Of Age Story From The Yukon River is the personal testimony of Velma Wallis (a full blooded member of one of the Gwich'in clans that had settled where the Porcupine River flows into the Yukon) on what it was like grow up as a Native American in an Alaska dominated by white teachers, traders, and missionaries. The endless battle against despair, alcoholism, and the loss or forgetting of all the ways that were once practiced permeate this courageous and thoughtful memoir. Raising Ourselves is a welcome, engagingly written, and very highly recommended addition to academic and community library Native American collections.
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Title: Two Old Women by Velma Wallis ISBN: 0060975849 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 13 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun by Velma Wallis ISBN: 0060977280 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 29 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Shadows on the Koyukuk: An Alaskan Native's Life Along the River by Sidney Huntington, Jim Rearden, Jim Reardon ISBN: 088240427X Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: On the Edge of Nowhere by James Huntington, Lawrence Elliot, Lawrence Elliott ISBN: 0970849338 Publisher: Epicenter Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Story of Survival and Courage in the Alaska Wilds by Charles W. Sasser, Norma Cobb ISBN: 0312261985 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 20 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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