Haa Shuká, Our Ancestors: Tlingit Oral Narratives

by Richard Dauenhauer and Nora Marks Dauenhauer

These gripping and powerful prose narratives relate monumental events in the lives of the forebears of Tlingit clans, from the prehistoric migration to the coast of Southeast Alaska to the first contact with Europeans. The stories were recorded from the 1960s to the present by twelve tradition bearers who where passing down for future generations the accounts of haa shuka, which means "our ancestors." Their narratives tell of the origin of social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295964952
• ISBN13: 9780295964959
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 532 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher