Stories are gifts given by an elder to a younger person.
Unfortunately, this gift is not given, nor received, as often today because many of our youth are occupied by television and the fast pace of modern-day living. Perhaps tomorrow's generation also will yearn for stories such as this so that they may better understand their past, their people, and, hopefully, themselves. Wallis Velma Wallis is an Athabaskan Indian who was born in Fort Yukon, Alaska. This remote village of about 650 people is approximately 140 miles northeast of Fairbanks and a few miles north of the Arctic Circle. It is the largest village in the Yukon Flats and can be reached only by small airplane, dog sled, snow mobile or riverboat.