Raising Ourselves
Alaska, biography
Alcohol use
Authors
Alcoholism
Culture
Manners and customs
Social life and customs
Biography
Born in 1960, the sixth of thirteen children, Velma Wallis comes of age in a two-room log cabin in remote Fort Yukon, Alaska. Raising Ourselves is an irresistible story of growing up Gwich'in. It is gritty and sobering yet filled with laughter even a to present. But hope pushes back hopelessness, an…
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