Raising Ourselves (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780972494472)

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
ISBN-10: 0972494472
ISBN-13: 9780972494472
Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.06w x 0.63d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.6
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 81939 / Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River