Websites Devoted To Two Old Women

• A HarperCollins site for classroom discussion of the novel
• An interview with Velma Wallis
• The official Velma Wallis site
• A review of the novel
• A story on the criticism of the novel

LitSite Alaska’s Related Links

• Father Michael Oleksa, Th.D. talks about culture in Alaska
• A Tsimshian legend
• An afternoon with author Sherman Alexie
• An Alutiiq elder’s story
• Hunik Zoo, writing by Alaskan kids for Alaskan kids
• Cultural survival as a non-White man
• Three generations of St. Lawrence Island storytelling
• A poem about survival in a non-Native world
• A story of starvation on St. Lawrence Island
• On growing up in Kotzebue
• Survival after the Japanese invasion of the Aleutians
• Ada Blackjack, Alaskan heroine
• A children’s book, written by an Athabascan teen writer from Fort Yukon
• A teen’s changing life experience
• An essay on surviving depression
• Writing about place
• A letter to Gary Paulsen, author of Hatchet
• Stories about growing up in the Alaskan outdoors
• A poem about caribou
• A story about Raven
• An elder’s story about mean brown bears
• A look at Alaskan writers, including Velma Wallis

General Related Links

• On-line materials about Alaska history, education, culture, and language
• An amazing Tlingit survival story
• A video on setting a rabbit snare
• Alaska Native languages map
• National Park Service site on the Gwich’in territory of Alaska