Athabaskan Quotes

“They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.”
― Velma Wallis, Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival

“Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world.”
― Velma Wallis, Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival