Haa Tuwunáagu Yís, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory

by Richard Dauenhauer and Nora Marks Dauenhauer

Book Overview

Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing Our Spirit is the first publication of Tlingit oratory recorded in performance. It features Tlingit texts with facing English translations and detailed annotations; photographs of the orators and the settings in which the speeches were delivered; and biographies of the elders. There are thirty-two speeches by twenty-one Tlingit elders. Most were taped between 1968 and 1988, but two speeches were recorded on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295968508
• ISBN13: 9780295968506
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 606 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Great slice of culture

This book is a great part of Tlingit culture, that can be shared with everyone. I'm not of Tlingit lineage, but even I get something out of this book. The stories give the reader a sense of what the Tlingit people cherish. And it also offers the student of Tlingit (which is my area of interest) some interesting reading material.

Wonderful reading

I am quite moved by this book. All the speeches give me pause as I am a Tlingit and what this book is about is a big part of the present Tlingit culture. Again, this book is a part of our Tlingit Literature class. I have the privelege of not just having the authors as the professors of the class but many Tlingit elders who either were present for some of the "potlatches" where the speeches were made or who knew the orators in the book.