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Haa Kusteeyí, Our Culture: Tlingit Life Stories

by Nora Marks Dauenhauer , Richard Dauenhauer
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780295974019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Washington Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Washington Press
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  • Pages: 600
  • Original Price: USD 50.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1266 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Native American Studies

This book is an introduction to Tlingit social and political history. Each biography is compelling in its own merit, but when all are taken together, the collection shows patterns of interaction among people and communities of today, and across the generations. By combining historical documents and photographs with accounts gathered from living memory, the book also enables the present, living generations to interact with their past.

The book features biographies and life histories of more than 50 men and women, most born between 1880 and 1910, including a special section on the founders of the Alaska Native Brotherhood. Additional lives are described tangentially.

Each biography or life history follows a standard format that includes vital statistics, genealogical information, names in Tlingit and English, and major achievements. But each is also unique. Like the lives they describe, all vary in length, detail, and style, depending on authorship and available human and archival resources. To the fullest extent possible oral and written material from the subjects and their families has been incorporated. Some is more anecdotal, some historical. The appendixes include previously unpublished historical documents and Tlingit texts with facing translations.

The lives in this volume show how individual people both shaped and were shaped by their time and place in history.

Dauenhauer, Nora Marks: - Nora Marks Dauenhauer (1927-2017) was a Tlingit author, poet, and scholar. She was a member of the Lukaax̱.ádi (Sockeye Salmon) clan and the Shaka Hít (Canoe Prow House) and Tlingit was her first language. She studied anthropology at Alaska Methodist (now Pacific) University in Anchorage. She authored numerous collections of poetry and prose and served as writer laureate of Alaska from 2012-2014.

Dauenhauer, Richard: - Richard Dauenhauer (1942-2014) was a poet, linguist, and scholar of Tlingit culture. He earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin, with a dissertation titled Text and Context of Tlingit Oral Tradition. He was a professor of literature at Alaska Methodist University and later of Alaska Native languages and culture at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau. From 1981 to 1988, he was the poet laureate of Alaska.

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