Ramona's Gift

What if the opportunity to improve life involved changing everything you know? What price should a family pay for opportunity? What is the greatest gift a mother can give her children? Ramonaas Gift is a poignant story about a Native family who moves from rural Alaska to a city for new opportunities and how they overcome the challenges they meet. It won the 2003 Interior Rural Alaska Storytelling Contest by Tanana Chiefs Conference and the 2004 Mary Tallmountain Creative Writing and Community Service Award. It is a story that taps into the experience of contemporary Alaska Native people. It will move you and the unexpected gift will warm you. Ramonaas Gift opens an exciting new genre of literature for Alaskan Native children. It includes storytelling elements common to all cultures and to the human experience. It shares the gift of a story told with affection.