Raising Ourselves - Paperback
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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.
Velma Wallis' career as a bestselling author would have seemed improbable - if not fantastical - to her as a young girl.
Wallis' personal odyssey began in the remote Fort Yukon, Alaska. Having dropped out of school at age 13 to care for her siblings after their father's death, Wallis earned her GED and then surprised friends and relatives by moving into an old trapping cabin 12 miles from Fort Yukon.
For almost a dozen years, she survived by hunting, fishing and trapping - a daring and independent lifestlye that helped define her personal identity.
The now middle-aged author currently divides her time between Fort Yukon and Fairbanks with her three daughters. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1993 Western States Book Award and the 1994 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Two Old Women as well as the 2003 Before Columbus Foundation Award for Raising Ourselves.
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