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- Our Voices: Native Stories of Alaska and the Yukon
- Book
- 2001
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
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Storytelling is a precious, vibrant tradition among the Native peoples of the Far North. Collected here for the first time are stories from the communities of interior Alaska and the Yukon Territory. These are the tales the people tell about themselves, their communities, and the world they inhabit.
Our Voices showcases twenty storytellers and writers who represent a full range of Athabaskan and related languages of Alaska and the Yukon. Both men and women recount popular tales of ancient times that describe the origins of social institutions and cultural values, as well as meaningful, sometimes intimate stories about their own lives and families or the history of their people. As representatives of an art transmitted through countless generations and now practiced with renewed interest and vigor by people reclaiming their cultural heritage, these narratives create a broad, brightly colored, richly detailed picture of the world of the Far North, present and past.
Table of Contents
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- Preface and Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-37
- 1. Deg Hit’an
- pp. 39-67
- Taxghozr: Polar Bear
- pp. 43-51
- Nił’oqay Ni’idaxin: The Man and Wife
- pp. 52-67
- 2. Koyukon
- pp. 69-107
- K’etl’enbaalots’ek
- pp. 90-95
- Ełts’eeyh Denaa: WindMan
- pp. 105-107
- 3. Gwich’in
- pp. 109-127
- Shaaghan: The Old Woman
- pp. 113-114
- K’aiiheenjik
- pp. 115-116
- We Go to Fort Yukon
- pp. 117-124
- 4. Northern Tutchone
- pp. 129-146
- K’ènlū Mǟn: Northern Lake, 1944
- pp. 140-143
- K’ènlū Mǟn: Northern Lake, 1956
- pp. 144-146
- 6. Tagish
- Getting Married
- pp. 173-179
- The Stolen Woman
- pp. 180-186
- 7. Southern Tutchone
- pp. 187-227
- Our Shagóon, Our Family History
- pp. 193-197
- How First This Yukon Came to Be
- pp. 198-211
- Naakw: Devilfish, or Octopus, Helper
- pp. 212-219
- [To Build a Fire]
- pp. 220-222
- The First Time They Knew K’och’èn, White Man
- pp. 223-227
- 8. Upper Tanana
- pp. 229-244
- 9. Tanacross
- pp. 245-260
- The Child Who Was Stolen by a Brush Indian
- pp. 249-252
- How Dentalium Necklaces Came to the Country
- pp. 253-260
- 10. Lower Tanana
- pp. 261-276
- I Learned the Indian Way
- pp. 263-264
- Strong People
- pp. 265-267
- I Belong to My Mother’s Side
- pp. 268-269
- Try to Make Things
- pp. 270-271
- Never Get Scared
- pp. 272-273
- Love Woods Life
- pp. 274-275
- I Don’t Go Around
- p. 276
- 11. Upper Kuskokwim
- pp. 277-295
- Jezra: Camp Robbers
- pp. 288-289
- Ch’itsets’ina’: The Skull
- pp. 290-295
- 12. Dena’ina
- Qezdaghnen Ggagga: The Kustatan Bear
- pp. 308-312
- Ch’enlahi Sukdu: The Gambling Story
- pp. 316-317
- Ggugguyni Sukt’a: Raven Story
- pp. 318-320
- Ggugguyni Ch’u Nut’aq’i: Raven and the Geese
- pp. 321-322
- Kił Ch’u Dujemi: The Man and the Loon
- pp. 323-324
- Dae’ Ts’atk’aats: How We Were Trained
- pp. 339-342
- Demba: Two Checker Players
- pp. 343-345
- Xay Tnaey: Spruce Root Man
- pp. 346-348
- Lake-Dwarves
- pp. 353-359
- Maagudətl’əlahdəxunhyuu
- pp. 369-370
- Łuundiyahsluw: The BigMouse [1933]
- pp. 371-372
- [The Girl and the Dog] [1933]
- pp. 373-374
- Two Sisters
- pp. 375-384
- Source Acknowledgments
- pp. 385-387
Additional Information
ISBN
9780803202368
MARC Record
OCLC
607194129
Pages
394
Launched on MUSE
2012-07-10
Language
English
Open Access
No