An edition of Haa shuká, our ancestors (1987)
Haa Shuka, Our Ancestors
Tlingit Oral Narratives (Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature)
By Nora Dauenhauer,Richard Dauenhauer,Nora Marks Dauenhauer
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Publish Date
May 1987
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Language
eng
Pages
514
Description:
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.