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The Great Death arrived with the man from downriver, the one who came with the light-colored strangers and had little red spots covering his body. Thirteen-year-old Millie and her younger sister, Maura, are fascinated by the guests, but soon sickness takes over their village. As they watch the people they know and love die, the sisters remain unaffected and begin to realize that they will have to find a new home. Alone in the cold Alaskan winter of 1917, struggling to overcome the obstacles nature throws their way, the girls discover that their true strength lies in their love for each other. John Smelcer's spare and beautiful prose shapes the sisters' story with tenderness and skill, presenting a powerful tale of determination, survival, and family.
This is an astonishing tale of survival; a poignant Robinson Crusoe story, based on true events. When Seth and his dog, Tucker, are washed overboard from his father's fishing boat during a torrential storm, they are assumed drowned. But by good fortune, Seth and Tucker make it safely to one of the hundreds of islands that line the Alaskan coast. Over many months, the boy and his dog make their way, island by island, towards home, while Seth's desperate father never gives up hope. Along the way, Seth learns many hard lessons about survival, and even harder lessons about himself.
Four Indian teenagers, their identities and cultures erased, develop a special friendship that alone allows them to survive forced institutionalization.
A gripping wilderness adventure and survival story It was getting colder. Johnny pulled the fur-lined hood of his parka over his head and walked towards his own cabin with the sound of snow crunching beneath his boots. "He should be back tomorrow," he thought, as a star raced across the sky just below the North Star. "He should be back tomorrow for sure." Seventeen-year-old Johnny Least-Weasel knows that his grandfather Albert is a stubborn old man and won't stop checking his own traplines even though other men his age stopped doing so years ago. But Albert Least-Weasel has been running traplines in the Alaskan wilderness alone for the past sixty years. Nothing has ever gone wrong on the trail he knows so well. When Albert doesn't come back from checking his traps, with the temperature steadily plummeting, Johnny must decide quickly whether to trust his grandfather or his own instincts. Written in alternating chapters that relate the parallel stories of Johnny and his grandfather, John Smelcer's The Trap poignantly addresses the hardships of life in the far north, suggesting that the most dangerous traps need not be made of steel.
"This book will teach you everything you need to know to survive in the wilderness - whether it's the Arctic, the desert, the jungle or your own back garden!" - cover.
Two dozen myths as retold by Ahtna Indian elders.
A half-Indian with an outcast wolf as lead dog, Deneena attempts the Great Race to prove herself and her heritage.
A collection of twenty myths from the Eyak, Tsimshian, Haida, & Tlingit Peoples of southeast Alaska. Each chapter includes an introduction & the book is illustrated throughout. These narratives keenly capture the mystical world of Alaska Native Legend--a world in which the supernatural is natural. To order contact SALMON RUN, P.O. Box 231081, Anchorage, AK 99523, (907) 561-8371, or contact BAKER & TAYLOR, PACIFIC PIPELINE, QUALITY BOOKS, or BODART CO.
Contemporary Native American poetry.
"Great stories and poems from America's earliest Black writers"--Cover.