1: Haa Shuká, Our Ancestors: Tlingit Oral Narratives (Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature)
By Unknown Author.
Description
These gripping and powerful prose narratives relate monumental events in the lives of the forebears of Tlingit clans, from the prehistoric migration to the coast of Southeast Alaska to the first contact with Europeans. The stories were recorded from the 1960s to the present by twelve tradition bearers who where passing down for future generations the accounts of haa shuka, which means “our ancestors.” Their narratives tell of the origin of social and spiritual concepts and explain the complex relationships among members of a given clan to their relatives in other clans, to spiri...
ISBN(s)
0295964952, 9780295964959
