Title: Flight of the Goose
Subtitle: A Story of the Far North
Description: 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.
Subjects: 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, Shamanism
Places: Nome, Alaska; Seward Peninsula; and the Bering Strait, Seattle, Norway, Lapland, Canada
People: Richard Nixon, Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Wordsworth
Time periods: 1971