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9780970849304

Raising Ourselves

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  • ISBN13:

    9780970849304

  • ISBN10:

    0970849303

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-09-01
  • Publisher: Epicenter Pr
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Summary

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. Catching salmon. Traping fur. Taking 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.

Table of Contents

Fort Yukon Mapp. 2
Yukon Flats Mapp. 154
Acknowledgmentsp. 9
Family Treep. 10
Prefacep. 12
Fort Yukonp. 15
Itchoop. 25
Ninap. 35
Petep. 41
Hannahp. 49
Maep. 59
Siblings and Seasonal Friendsp. 67
Uptown and Schoolp. 83
Life in the Sixtiesp. 97
Times of Changep. 115
Turning Pointsp. 123
Back and Forthp. 133
Back Homep. 145
Neegoogwandahp. 157
Learning New Skillsp. 167
Strugglesp. 175
Going to Oregonp. 185
Back to Fort Yukonp. 195
Barryp. 201
Epiloguep. 210
Afterwordp. 214
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