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Title:
Haa shuká, our ancestors : Tlingit oral narratives
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer.
Publication Information:
Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Juneau : Sealaska Heritage Foundation, c1987.
Physical Description:
xvi, 514 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780295964942

9780295964959
Series:
Classics of Tlingit oral literature ; v. 1
General Note:
English and Tlingit.
Abstract:
Recorded from the 1960s to the present by twelve tradition bearers who were passing down for future generations the accounts of haa shuka, which means our ancestors. Narratives tell of the origin of social and spiritual concepts and explain complex relationships. Text in Tlingit with English translation on the opposite page. Includes biographies of the narrators. Also extensive introduction and notes.
Bibliography Note:
Bibliography: p. 511-514.
Subject Term:
Tlingit Indians -- Folklore.

Tlingit Indians -- Religion.

Tlingit mythology.

Indians of North America -- Alaska -- Religion and mythology.

Tlingit language -- Texts.

Tlingit Indians -- Religion and mythology.

Indians of North America -- Alaska -- Legends.

Tlingit Indians -- Legends.
Added Author:
Dauenhauer, Nora.

Dauenhauer, Richard.
Contents:
Basket Bay history / Robert Zuboff -- Mosquito / Robert Zuboff -- Kaax'achgóok / A. P. Johnson -- Naatsilanéi / Willie Marks -- Naatsilanéi / J. B. Fawcett -- Strong man / Frank Johnson -- Kaakex'wti / Willie Marks -- Woman who married the bear / Tom Peters -- Woman who married the bear / Frank Dick, Sr. -- Kaats' / J. B. Fawcett -- Glacier Bay history / Susie James -- Glacier Bay history / Amy Marvin -- First Russians / Charlie White -- Raven boat / Jennie White -- Coming of the first white man / George Betts.
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