Mother Earth Father Sky

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Mother Earth Father Sky is the first novel in Sue Harrison's Ivory Carver Trilogy dealing with the prehistoric Aleut tribes.[1] It was followed by My Sister the Moon and Brother Wind. In this novel, Chagak's tribe is attacked by a warlike tribe, including Man-Who-Kills, who rapes her and is subsequently killed, but becomes the father of her child, Samiq, who is an important character in the subsequent novels. It was chosen as among the Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association in 1991 and was a Main Selection of the Literary Guild Book Club.

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