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We know a great deal about the horrors and destructions of the native peoples in what is now the United States - the Sioux, the Apache, the Comanche - but we know much less about what happened further north, in Canada and Alaska. This story is perhaps less violent, but it's equally heartbreaking, and it needs to be told. Smelcer himself has a unique perspective since he is an Ahtna Athabaskan Indian, and he brings this perspective to bear in an absorbing, lyrical and beautiful novel. It's short, but it's very, very sweet.

Of course, the ultimate Alaskan survival story isn't about two little girls. If you haven't acquainted yourself with [[Call of the Wild by Jack London]] already, you should do so at once. Other stories featuring this atmospheric but harsh landscape include [[Legend of a Suicide by David Vann]], [[The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney]], and the young adult book [[Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick]]. [[Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown]] is the story of all the calamities Europeans visited on the Native Americans.