Our voices Native stories of Alaska and the Yukon / edited by James Ruppert and John W. Bernet.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernet, John W., 1929-2017.

Ruppert, James, 1947-

Series:

Frontiers of narrative Narrative across media

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tales--Yukon.

Tales.

Tales--Alaska.

Athapascan mythology.

Athapascan Indians--Folklore.

Athapascan Indians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 394 p. ) maps ;

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; London, [England] : University of Nebraska Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Deg Hit'an / Belle Deacon

Deg Hit'an Gixudhoy / The People's Stories

Taxghozr / Polar Bear

Nil'oqay Ni'idaxin / The Man and Wife

Koyukon / Catherine Attla

Doz K'ikaal Yee Nogheelt'uyhdlee / The One Who Used to Put His Nephew into a Fishtail

Dotson' Sa Ninin" atltseen / Great Raven Who Shaped the World

K'etl'enbaalots'ek

Dekeltlaal De'ot Etldleeyee / The Woodpecker Who Starved His Wife

Elts'eeyh Denaa / Wind Man

Gwich'in / Katherine Peter

Shaaghan / The Old Woman

K'aiiheenjik

from "Gwichyaa Zheh Gwats'a' Tr'ahaajil" / We Go to Fort Yukon

Jalgiitsik, Tl'yahdik Haa / Chalkyitsik and Tl'yahdik

Northern Tutchone / Gertie Tom

Gyo Cho Chu / Living at Big Salmon, 1930s and 1940s

K'enlu Man / Northern Lake, 1944

K'enlu Man / Northern Lake, 1956

Kaska / John Dickson

Gedeni Ges Gagah Nede / The Girl Who Lived with Salmon / Maudie Dick

Dzohdie' Guh Cho Dzehhin / Dzohdie' Kills the Giant Worm

Tagish / Angela Sidney

Getting Married

The Stolen Woman

Southern Tutchone / Annie Ned

Our Shagoon, Our Family History

How First This Yukon Came to Be: Crow and Beaverman / Kitty Smith

Naakw: Devilfish, or Octopus, Helper

[To Build a Fire]

The First Time They Knew K'och'en, White Man

Upper Tanana / Mary Tyone

Stsoo Shyaan Oonign': Ch'aldzeek Shyii Dineh Gaay Na'ithadn / My Old Grandmother: The Little Man Standing in the Moon

Dlign Mba' Hehk'aayh Ts'a' / When the Tree Squirrels Cut Fish.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-280-37414-4

9786610374144

0-8032-0236-9

OCLC:

607194129