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Velma Wallis


Born
Fort Yukon, The United States
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Genre
Literature & Fiction


Velma Wallis (born 1960) is a Gwich'in Athabascan Indian and bestselling U.S. novelist. Her work has been translated into 17 languages.

She was born and raised in a remote Alaskan village near Fort Yukon, approximately 200 km north-east of Fairbanks. This location could be accessed only by riverboat, airplane, snowmobile or dogsled. Velma grew up among twelve siblings. Her father died when she was thirteen years old, and she stayed out of school to help her mother with the household. (She later went on to receive her GED diploma, which is a High School equivalent.)

About twelve miles away from the village, her father had once built a small cabin in the wilderness. He had been an active hunter and trapper. Some time after his death Velma surpr ...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 19,563 ratings · 2,761 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors
Two Old Women: An Alaskan L...
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Bird Girl & the Man Who Fol...
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“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
tags: alaska, athabaskan, courage, inspirational, survival
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“Let us die trying.”
― Wallis Velma
tags: elders, inspirational-attitude, women
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“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
tags: alaska, athabaskan, courage, inspiration, survival
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