" Tell me about this...." I almost said "totem pole," but it didn't fit. The carving was so different and special, like the wolf figure that I found in the woods.... Slowly I tried pronouncing the word Uncle Samuel had said. "This kooteeyaa you are working on." I looked over at him to make sure he heard me use the Tlingit word. Uncle Samuel nodded his head up and down with a grin as wide as the statue's in the woods. At that moment the sight of his face sprouted a warm feeling inside my chest. Mark looked at me kindly. He said, "This pole tells the history of the eagle clan. It's your family's group, their story. Your story." - from The Eagle's Shadow Nora Martin Nora Martin 17625 Big Elk Meadow Rd. Gallatin Gateway, MT 59730 (406) 763-4390 hermitwanabe@hotmail.com www.mcn.net/~gatewayschool/ Publications: The Stone Dancers Atheneum 1995 ISBN 0-689-80312 The Eagle's Shadow Scholastic Press 1997 ISBN 0-590-36087-6 ALA Best Trade Book for Social Studies 1997 A Bank Street College Best Book 1997 BIO: Nora Martin based The Eagle's Shadow in part on a 1979 sojourn to Alaska, where her husband was conducting research on bald eagles. She earned a teaching degree at the University of Alaska and taught in several rural schools, including one in the Tlingit village of Klukwan. The Eagle's Shadow is her first novel. Ms. Martin now lives in Gallatin Gateway, Montana, with her husband, Andrew, and their sons, Winslow and Haynes.

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