Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal Courage and Survival theory Jessica Bissett Perea

Jessica Bissett Perea

gentle rhythmic text captures the wonder new parents feel as they welcome baby into the world

beginning with a detailed description of the Santee dialect of the Dakota language and its grammar

exposing their business ties and multigenerational interrelationships through birth and marriage

and the tender ironies of woe and mercy

Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal Courage and Survival theory Jessica Bissett PereaBased on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a