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  <title>Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival</title>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a legend told to a daughter by her mother and it feels like that: that the reader is snuggled down for a bedtime story of power, morals and significance. Two old women, members of a tribe who live up near the Yukon river, are abandoned one cold winter as too burdensome to the tribe when there is not enough to eat. It is a shock but these two women pull together and survive. The book recounts the decision of the tribe and what it cost the chief to make such a decision and how the people of the tribe reacted. Many lessons are learned by everyone, not least the old women, who rediscover their own capabilities and worth. The tribe learns compassion and the worth of elders. The young learn patience and better judgement. I loved learning the details of the old women's survival. It is amazing to me, these women, these tribes, being able to survive in the arctic with a hatchet, animal skins, dried leather and sparks of fire. How did they do it? They had each other and the love they remembered from their families and tribe for their emotional needs, they had their upbringing and education in hunting, skinning, fishing, sewing and building shelters to provide their physical needs, and they did not give up, they said they would make it or they would die trying. They let go of bitterness and complaining and stood up with pride, knowing that even if they were old they were capable and valuable to themselves and the tribe.]]></body>
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