Deep Ancestral Tale

Bird Girl & the Man Who Followed the Sun: An Athabaskan Indian Legend from Alaska by Velma Wallis

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This story is a deep ancestral tale about the Athabascan Indians. It focuses on two different peoples sharing close hunting grounds along the Alaskan coastline and provides a wonderful insight into the different perspectives of both peoples.
The tale narrates the story of two youngsters from different clans who are both rebels in their own individual ways, both yearning for the freedom to live their own lives. Their different paths take them far from home before they truly learn the price of that freedom.
It is well-told and highly descriptive, easy to place yourself in the lands they cross - hearing the rushing water, smelling the damp pine forests and feeling the bite of the Winter cold.
The author is descended from the Gwichin Athabascan tribe.

Shawn Callon, author of The Simon Montfort Spy Series, edited and published this review.

Bird Girl & the Man Who Followed the Sun: An Athabascan Indian Legend from Alaska



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