People of the Whale Mohican sees new life

sees new life

and contemporary nature and science writing

returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation

causing mass extinctions and destabilizing the climate

as Natives are

People of the Whale Mohican sees new lifeA powerful story of a Vietnam veteran torn between his war experience and his Native American community. Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American community, he fathers a child with another woman. When he returns home a hero, he finds his tribe in conflict over the decision to hunt a whale, both