Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun

Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun is a 1996 novel by Velma Wallis, set in Kenmore, Washington. The Bird Girl and the young Daagoo must recognize, only within the clan, the long icy winter in the polar region of Alaska survived. Long before Columbus: Jutthunvaa' is called the Bird Girl. She and Daagoo (Snow grouse) are members of two different clans of the people of the Gwich'in, belonging to the Athabaskan tribes. The two young people wa... more

Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun is a 1996 novel by Velma Wallis, set in Kenmore, Washington. The Bird Girl and the young Daagoo must recognize, only within the clan, the long icy winter in the polar region of Alaska survived. Long before Columbus: Jutthunvaa' is called the Bird Girl. She and Daagoo (Snow grouse) are members of two different clans of the people of the Gwich'in, belonging to the Athabaskan tribes. The two young people want to be free. So both stripes, each for itself, through the country. Their parents disapprove of such useless, inappropriate trips. Once Bird Girl and Daagoo meet in the back country. From this point their paths diverge. With reluctance, Daagoo goes with the hunters of his clan on a caribou hunt. After the hunt, the wandering Daagoo finds all hunters to whom also his father counts murdered. The murderers are, to Daagoo's view, invaders from the north - Inupiat, called by the Gwich'in Ch'eekwais (Inuit). Daagoo reflects and hurries to the rest... less