Dreaming Bears

<p>is is the true story of the rare friendship that develops between a young medical student</p><p>with deep roots in the South and an elderly Indian couple in the wilds of northeast Alaska. In</p><p>1961 Mike Holloway his brother Ted and a college friend set out from South Carolina to</p><p>spend the summer hiking in arctic Alaska intending to live o the land. ey end up in the</p><p>homeland of the Gwich'in - the northernmost Indians in North America.</p><p>e young men charter a small plane into the isolated village of Venetie and are directed to</p><p>the remote cabins of Johnny and Sarah Frank an elderly Gwich'in couple who lived a thirty-</p><p>ve mile walk from the village. Johnny was a well-known storyteller and former medicine man.</p><p>Sarah made their home welcoming with warm calm kindness.</p><p>Mike's rich encounters in Gwich'in country deepen his love of wild land and his respect</p><p>for those who depend upon it for their survival. experience alters his life. He becomes the</p><p>adopted grandson of Johnny and Sarah returning to Alaska as a doctor and an advocate for</p><p>the land and its people.</p><p><br></p>