Publisher's Synopsis
A coming-of-age story of a Gwich'in Athabascan man, which begins with his childhood in remote Arctic Village, Alaska. He sits at the feet of the last traditional Native American Elders in North America. They raise and inspire him as he enters his tumultuous teen and adult years. He travels across the country and begins college, but returns home to help his people and finishes school there. He then leads his Alaska Native people and travels through the states as a Native leader. He takes up the fight of his Elders for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the new global crisis of climate change. As he nears his 30th birthday, he returns home once again and translates the stories of his-now-deceased-Gwich'in Elders with his grandfather for his masters thesis. Thus, sitting at their feet once again and listening to their stories, a grown man coming full circle, yet still humbled, and being re-inspired.
