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Haa Kusteeyí, Our Culture: Tlingit Life Stories.

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Tlingit Eldera
Dauenhauer, Nora Marks, Editor
Dauenhauer, Richard, Editor
1994

Very Useful
Book
Tlingit
Referenced by: Sealaska Heritage Foundation

Grade Level(s): 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Theme(s): Language/Communication, Cultural Expression, Tribe/Community, Living in Place

Haa Kusteeyí, Our Culture: Tlingit Life Stories is an introduction to Tlingit social and political history. The book features the biographies and life histories of more than fifty men and women, most born between 1880 and 1910, including a special section on the founders of the Alaska Native Brotherhood. The lives in this volume show how individual Native people both shaped and were shaped by their time and place in history. To the fullest extent possible, oral and written material from the subjects and their families has been incorporated, so the book includes written research contributions by over twenty people, and additional information from many friends and relatives. The appendixes feature Tlingit texts with facing English translations, and previously unpublished documents, including material from the National Archives and the minutes from the historically important 1929 Haines ANB Convention, which decided to pursue a land claims settlement, adopted the ANB and ANS koogéinaa and established the Executive Committee in the ANB Constitution.

Edited by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer. Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, Vol. 3, University of Washington Press and Sealaska Heritage Foundation, 1994, 924 pp., 204 photographs, bibliography. Hard cover, $50.00; Paperback, $30.00

Available from:

Sealaska Heritage Foundation
One Sealaska Plaza, Suite 201
Juneau, Alaska 99801

(907) 463-4844



Native-produced

Information about the resource can be found at:
ANKN Clearinghouse
P.O.Box 756730
Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-6730

Tel: (907) 474-5897
or email: ANKN Clearinghouse

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