Flight of the Goose
A Story of the Far North
by Lesley Thomas
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In a remote Inupiaq Eskimo village in Arctic Alaska, the relationship of a shaman, a traditional Native hunter, and a draft-dodging scientist turns tragic.
The award-winning novel has themes of ecological and cultural loss, Big Oil, war, gender, healing, and western science versus indigenous knowledge and lifeways.
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Inupiaq Eskimo, Inuit, Arctic, Bering Strait, gender roles, feminism, shaman, shamanism, indigenous, birds, ornithology, deep ecology, cultural survival, species loss, Western science, traditional knowledge, anthropology, sustainability, climate change, oil drilling, Big Oil, military draft, draft-dodger, conscientious objection, child abuse, slavery, Inupiat, Fiction, Villages, Culture conflict, Women shamans, Ecologists, ShamanismTimes
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Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North
February 12, 2005, Far Eastern Press
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0967884217 9780967884219
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First Sentence
"Once in taimmani, in long ago times, a hunter wandered into a village that kindly took him in."
Edition Notes
Winner of three literary awards, first place.
Listed as source of note in "Cultural Survival Journal" and "Feminist Studies Journal".
Recommended by "Shaman's Drum", "First Alaskans Magazine", Sierra Club magazine, book critic John Marshall of "Seattle Post Intelligencer", "Endicott Studio of Mythic Arts", "Transmutations", and "Sacred Hoop Journal".
Studied at Boston University, University of Alaska, AP science classes in high school, North Slope (Alaska) school district -Inupiaq Values Curriculum, the International School of Shamanism, and by students of Sandra Ingerman.
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A coming-of-age story, a cross cultural love story, an eco-novel with deep ecology, and the story of the initiation of a young shaman woman in the contemporary Alaskan Arctic.
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