Haa Kusteeyí, Our Culture: Tlingit Life Stories (Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature) - Softcover

Dauenhauer, Nora Marks; Dauenhauer, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 029597401X ISBN 13: 9780295974019

Publisher: University of Washington Press, 1994

Synopsis

Haa Kusteeyi, Our Culture Haa Kusteeyi, Our Culture: Tlingit Life Stories 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 By combining historical documents and photographs with accounts gathered from living memory, the book also enables the present, living generations to interact with their past.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....

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About the Authors

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.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 029597401X
• ISBN 13: 9780295974019
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 600