"The Tlingit Indians of southeastern Alaska are known for their totem poles, Chilkat blankets, and oceangoing canoes. Nora Marks Dauenhauer is a cultural emissary of her people and now tells the story of her own life within the context of her community's." "Life Woven with Song recreates in written language the oral tradition of the Tlingit people as it records memories of Dauenhauer's heritage - of older relatives and Tlingit elders, of trolling for salmon and preparing food in the dryfish camps, of making a living by working in canneries." "In prose, Dauenhauer presents stories such as "Egg Boat" - the tale of a twelve-year-old girl fishing the North Pacific for the first time alone - and an autobiographical piece that reveals much about Tlingit lifeways. Then in a section of short, lyrical poems she offers crystalline tributes to her land and people." "In a concluding selection of plays, Dauenhauer presents three Raven stories that were adapted as stage plays from oral version told in Tlingit by three storytellers of her community."--BOOK JACKET.
Record details
ISBN:0816520062 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN:0816520054 (alk. paper)
ISBN:97808165200610 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN:9780816520053 (alk. paper)
Physical Description:xiii, 135 p. : ill ; 24 cm. print
Publisher:Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2000.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note:
Some Slices of Salmon -- Egg Boat -- Magic Gloves -- Chemawa Cemetery: Buried in Alien Land -- Life Woven with Song: An Autobiographical Essay -- A Poem for Jim Nagataak'w (Jakwteen) -- Grandpa Jakwteen in Eclipse -- Auntie Frances, My Father's Sister -- My Auntie Jennie's Bed -- Grandmother Eliza -- Salmon Egg Puller - In Memory of Jeff David -- Willie -- Memorial Day in Kiev -- Tlingit Elders -- Migration Catalog -- Spring -- Buds -- Blossoms -- From Camp Heaven -- Constellation Course: Hanging Loose -- Totemic Display -- For My Granddaughters Genny and Lenny -- Letter to Nanao Sakaki -- Angoon at Low Tide -- Berries -- Crossing the Bridge -- Raven at Grand Canyon -- Coming Down from the Mogollon Rim -- Zuni Ring: Glacial Turquoise -- Fieldwork -- Ernestine's House, Hoonah, Alaska, 6 A.M. Variations of Two -- The Storm -- Storms from an Enemy Sky -- Steel Gray -- Trees in North Wind -- Amelia's First Ski Run -- Tonio Saves Christmas -- For My Granddaughter Amelia -- Introduction to the Raven Plays -- White Raven and Water -- Raven, King Salmon, and the Birds -- Raven Loses His Nose.
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