Dreaming Bears

About this book

is is the true story of the rare friendship that develops between a young medical studentwith deep roots in the South and an elderly Indian couple in the wilds of northeast Alaska. In1961, Mike Holloway, his brother Ted, and a college friend set out from South Carolina tospend the summer hiking in arctic Alaska, intending to live o the land. ey end up in thehomeland of the Gwich'in - the northernmost Indians in North America.e young men charter a small plane into the isolated village of Venetie, and are directed tothe remote cabins of Johnny and Sarah Frank, an elderly Gwich'in couple who lived a thirty-ve mile walk from the village. Johnny was a well-known storyteller and former medicine man.Sarah made their home welcoming with warm, calm kindness.Mike's rich encounters in Gwich'in country deepen his love of wild land and his respectfor those who depend upon it for their survival. experience alters his life. He becomes theadopted grandson of Johnny and Sarah, returning to Alaska as a doctor and an advocate forthe land and its people.