Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal Courage and Survival Iroquois The 500 Years of Resistance

The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book was heralded as a groundbreaking illustrated history of Indigenous activism and resistance in the Americas over the previous 500 years

as well as material donated by surviving Intermountain Indian School students and teachers throughout Utah

Now Uncle's stories inspire other visions in her head: a bowwow powwow

Charles Waters

The end of the book takes us to modern times when the story of the Native peoples is both tragic and hopeful

Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal Courage and Survival Iroquois The 500 Years of ResistanceBased on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a