An orphan traumatized by her past, she seeks respect in her traditional Inupiat village through the outlawed path of shamanism. So relates Kayuqtuq Ugungoraseok, "the red fox". And there was a young woman who flew into the world of spirits to save herself." There was a young man who hunted geese to feed his family and another who studied geese to save them. There was a war and a university, an oil company and a small village, all run by men. Outsiders came, but it was not to learn from us it was to change us. "It was a time when much was hidden, before outsiders came on bended knee to learn from the elders. ~ Dorothy Jean Ray, author of A Legacy of Arctic Art, and The Eskimos of Bering Strait 1650-1898ġ971, the Alaskan Arctic. With the author's unerring knowledge of anthropology and social and environmental issues, it could fit any rural Alaskan village." "Memorable.One of the best novels of Alaska that I have read. Briggs, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland and author of Never in Anger (Thomas) has a fine grasp of the complexity of human relations and culture in such a village. I wept my way through it, identifying profoundly with both protagonists. Their tale, woven from threads of psychological thriller, love story, eco-fiction, science and the metaphysical, is set in a remote village and the wilds of the Alaskan Arctic in a time of great cultural and ecological upheaval. Flight of the Goose is an award-winning novel about an indigenous woman shaman, a draft-dodging bird scientist, and a young Inupiaq hunter caught between traditions.
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