Alaska native writers, storytellers & orators / executive editor, Ronald Spatz ; contributing editors, Jeane Breinig, Patricia H. Partnow.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Spatz, Ronald (Editor)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Multiple languages
Published: Anchorage : University of Alaska, [1999], ©1999.
Edition:Expanded edition.
Subjects:
American literature > Alaska > Indigenous authors.
American literature > Alaska > Eskimo authors.
Alaska Natives > Folklore.
Alaska Natives > Legends.
Genre:
Folklore.
Legends.
Physical Description:xix, 376 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm
Variant Title:
Alaska native writers, storytellers and orators. [Other title]
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: literary gambling sticks / Gerald Vizenor
  • Editor's note / Ronald Spatz
  • I·ya·qdalahgayu·,dałiʹqʹlagadaʹa·łinu·-Lament for Eyak (with facing translation in Eyak) / Anna Nelson Harry
  • Lake-dwarves / Anna Nelson Harry
  • Giant rat / Anna Nelson Harry
  • ₋Kul ₋Kʹaluudaay-Moldy Collar Tip ( with facing translation in Haida) / Victor Haldane
  • Fish story: Karta Bay / Victor Haldane
  • Shag and the Raven / Victor Haldane
  • Story of the double fin killer whale / Victor Haldane
  • Beaver and Ground Hog were pals / Jessie Neal Natkong
  • Haida hunters and legend of the two fin killer whale / George Hamilton
  • Yʹeil ₋ka lʹa₋xʹ kʹeet yaanaayʹi ₋xʹʹeida₋x sh kalnʹeek ₋keixwnʹeich kawshixʹit-Raven, Seagull and Crane (with facing translation in Tlingit) / Willie Marks
  • Speech for the removal of grief / David Kadashan
  • Speech for the removal of grief / Jessie Dalton
  • Speech for the removal of grief / Austin Hammond
  • Nda ckshun Tckaimsom dis Laggabula-When Tckaimson and Laggabula gambled (with facing translation in Tsimshian) / William Beynon
  • Tsetsaut history: the forgotten tribe of southern southeast Alaska / Reginald Dangeli
  • Saĝim tayaĝuu uluuqidâx-The man of Saĝîx dried meat (with facing translation in Unangan/Aleut) / Isidor Solovyov
  • Atkan historical traditions / Cedor L. Snigaroff
  • Puglaʹallria (with facing translation in Alutiiq/Sugcestun) / Ignatius Kosbruk
  • Ivan Durak steals a ring / Dick Kamluck, Sr.
  • A bear story / Walter Meganarck, Sr.
  • Qulireq-Tale (with facing translation in Yupʹik) / Leo Moses
  • The crow and the mink / Mary Worm
  • The first whales / Kirt Bell
  • Ivaghulluk Ilagaata-Prayer song asking for a whale (with facing translation in St. Lawrence Island Yupik) / Lincoln Blassi
  • Kivalliñġmi pilg̣uruaq aġnaq-The Kivalina war heroine (with facing translation in Iñupiaq / Clinton Swan
  • Shamanic flights / Frank Ellanna
  • The boy who found the lost / Laura Norton
  • Kʹeła sukdu-The mouse story (with facing translation in Denaʹina Athabaskan / Peter Kalifornsky
  • The gambling story / Peter Kalifornsky
  • Raven and the half-human / Peter Kalinfornsky
  • The boy who talked to the dog / Peter Kalifornsky
  • About shamans and the men with gashaq / Peter Kalifornsky
  • The old Denaʹina beliefs / Peter Kalifornsky
  • The Susitna story / Shem Pete
  • Raven and the mallard girl / John Fredson
  • Wolverine and the wolves / John Fredson
  • Ggaadookk / Sally Pilot
  • Saginaw Bay: I keep going back / Robert H. Davis
  • Egg boat / Nora Marks Dauenhauer
  • Grandmother Eliza / Nora Marks Dauenhauer
  • Museum / Nora Marks Dauenhauer
  • Why subsistence is a matter of cultural survival: a Yupʹik point of view / John Active
  • Asraaq, the girl who became a she-bear / Sister Goodwin
  • When the owl disappeared / Sister Goodwin
  • Sacrifice: a dream / a vision / Sister Goodwin
  • Nomadic Iñupiat for Kappaisruk / Sister Goodwin
  • Piksinñaq / Sister Goodwin
  • Shagoon 1,2,3,4 / Andrew Hope III
  • Diyeikee / Andrew Hope III
  • Native identity: what kind of native are you? / Eleanor Hadden
  • Night without dawn / Glen Simpson
  • Tahltan country / Glen Simpson
  • Traveling in the land of the native art historians / Glen Simpson
  • Front Street / Glen Simpson
  • Seed potatoes and foxgloves / Julie Coburn
  • Raven speaks to Haidas / Julie Coburn
  • There is no such thing as an Aleut / Barbara Svarnʹy Carlson
  • O dark sister / Mary TallMountain
  • Seahorse music / Mary TallMountain
  • Nuliajuk, a sequence / Mary TallMountain
  • Super cockroach tale / Tim Afcan, Sr.
  • Salmon in the pond / Randall Johnson
  • Magic maker / Buell Anakak
  • What hope can do / Mary Jane Nielsen
  • Candle Lite / June McGlashan
  • It is very quiet / June McGlashan
  • Mood music / Jeane Breinig
  • A house I remember / George Westdahl
  • Gaslight / Fred Bigjim
  • Ballet in Bethel / Fred Bigjim
  • Untitled / Andrew Evan
  • Cannery children / Mary Jane Peterson
  • Willow was her name / Dixie Alexander
  • The anti-depression Uliimaaq / Susie Silook
  • Uncle good intentions / Susie Silook
  • Adventure in Chinatown 1958 / Susie Silook
  • Wolves / Anna Smith
  • Watsʹix Shaayhʹ mountains / Anna Smith
  • Naatasse Hʹeen / Anna Smith
  • River woman (from Spirit of Woman) / Diane L₋xʹeisʹ Benson
  • What she wanted / Diane L₋xʹeisʹ Benson
  • Now they wannaBE us / Diane L₋xʹeisʹ Benson
  • Translation issues / Marie Meade
  • Considerations about the oral tradition and writing / William Schneider
  • Oral and written narrative / Patricia H. Partnow
  • Genres across cultures / Patricia H. Partnow
  • Political perspective and literary framework for the text commentaries / Jeane Breinig
  • Cultural and historical text commentaries / Jeane Breinig, Patricia H. Partnow
  • A talk with Peter Kalifornsky: the stories are for us to learn something from / Katherine McNamara.