Sharing our knowledge : the Tlingit and their coastal neighbors / edited by Sergei Kan with Steven Henrikson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kan, Sergei, editor.

Henrikson, Steve, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tlingit Indians--Social life and customs.

Tlingit Indians.

Tlingit Indians--History.

Tlingit Indians--Languages.

Tlingit art.

Indians of North America--Alaska--Pacific Coast--Social life and customs.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--British Columbia--Pacific Coast--Social life and customs.

Indians of North America--Alaska--Pacific Coast--Languages.

Indians of North America--British Columbia--Pacific Coast--Languages.

Pacific Coast (North America)--Social life and customs.

Pacific Coast (North America).

Pacific Coast (North America)--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (542 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; London, [England] : University of Nebraska Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Sharing Our Knowledge brings together Native elders, tradition bearers, educators, cultural activists, anthropologists, linguists, historians, and museum professionals to explore the culture, history, and language of the Tlingit people of southeast Alaska and their coastal neighbors. These interdisciplinary, collaborative essays present Tlingit culture not as an object of study but rather as a living heritage that continues to inspire and guide the lives of communities and individuals throughout southeast Alaska and northwest British Columbia. This volume focuses on the preservation and dissemination of Tlingit language, traditional cultural knowledge, and history from an activist Tlingit perspective. Sharing Our Knowledge also highlights a variety of collaborations between Native groups and individuals and non-Native researchers, emphasizing a long history of respectful, cooperative, and productive working relations aimed at recording and transmitting cultural knowledge for tribal use and promoting Native agency in preserving heritage. By focusing on these collaborations, the contributors demonstrate how such alliances have benefited the Tlingits and neighboring groups in preserving and protecting their heritage while advancing scholarship at the same time"-- Provided by publisher.

"An edited volume of interdisciplinary, collaborative research on Tlingit culture, language, and history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Sergei Kan

Part 1. Our Elders and Teachers

Shotridge in Philadelphia : Representing Native Alaskan Peoples to East Coast Audiences / Robert W. Preucel

Louis Shotridge : Preserver of Tlingit History and Culture / Lucy Fowler Williams

This Is Kuxaankutaan's (Dr. Frederica de Laguna's) Song / Chew Shaa (Elaine Abraham) and Daxootsu (Judith Ramos)

Mark Jacobs Jr./Gushteiheen (1923-2005) 000 Harold Jacobs

X'eigaa kaa (Tlingit Warrior) / Harold Jacobs 6. Mark Jacobs Jr./Gushteiheen : My Teacher, Friend, and Older Brother / Sergei Kan

World War II Scuttlebutt : Naval Section Bases, Southeast Alaska / Mark Jacobs Jr.

Poems by Andrew Hope III / introduced by Ishmael Hope

As Long as the Work Gets Done / Peter Metcalfe

Revival and Survival : Two Lifetimes in Tlingit / Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer

Part 2. Native History

Tlingit Interaction with Other Native Alaskan and Northwest Coast Ethnic Groups before and during the Russian Era / Elena Piterskaya

Relating Deep Genealogies, Traditional History, and Early Documentary Records in Southeast Alaska : Questions, Problems, and Progress / Judith Berman

Whose Justice? Traditional Tlingit Law and the Deady Code / Diane Purvis

Bringing to Light a Counternarrative of Our History : B.A. Haldane, Nineteenth-Century Tsimshian Photographer / Mique'l Icesis Dangeli

Part 3. Subsistence, Natural Resources, and Ethnogeography

Haida and Tlingit Use of Seabirds from the Forrester Islands, Southeast Alaska / Madonna L. Moss

Deiki Noow : Tlingit Cultural Heritage in the Hazy Islands / Steve J. Langdon

Place as Education's Source / Thomas F. Thornton

Part 4. Material Culture, Art, and Tourism

Skidegate Haida House Models / Robin K. Wright

The Evolution of Tlingit Daggers / Ashley Verplank McClelland

Tourists and Collectors : The New Market for Tlingit and Haida Jewelry at the Turn of the Century / Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse

Opening the Drawer : Unpacking Tlingit Beadwork in Museum Collections and Beyond / Megan A. Smetzer

Balancing Protocol and Law for Intellectual Property : Examples and Ethical Dilemmas from the Northwest Coast Art Market / Alexis C. Bunten

Part 5. Repatriation

A Killer Whale Comes Home : Neil Kúxdei Woogoot, Keet S'aaxw, Mark Jacobs Jr., and the Repatriation of a Clan Crest Hat from the Smithsonian Institution / R. Eric Hollinger and Harold Jacobs

Building New Relationships with Tlingit Clans : Potlatch Loans, NAGPRA, and the Penn Museum / Stacey O. Espenlaub

Appendix.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780803266742

080326674X

OCLC:

903489483