Will the Time Ever Come? : A Tlingit Source Book

by Hope, Andrew; Thornton, Thomas F.; Emmons, George Thornton

• ISBN13: 9781877962349
• ISBN10: 1877962341
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Alaska Pr

Summary

In 1993 the Tlingit tribes and clansconvened a landmark conferences in Haines, Alaska, which brought Native peoples from Alaska and Canada together with scholars of their language, history, and culture to exchange information and develop a collaborative agenda for future research and policy initiatives. This volume represents the fruits of that unique exchange and collaboration. It includes origial contributions by Native and non-Native scholars alike on a variety of key topics, including Tlingit historiography, migrations, warfare, kinship and property tenure, language and literacy, ethnogeography and cultural resource management, subsistence, and naming.Bridging past and future, this source book fills an important niche in the literature and is designed especially to be accessible to all students of Tlingit culture.

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(5)
PART I: Tlingit History & Traditions	11	(80)
An Annotated Tlingit Bibliography	13	(10)
Sergei Kan
On Migrations	23	(11)
Andrew Hope
Inhabitants of Burning Wood Fort	34	(14)
Harold Jacobs
The Kiks.adi Survival March of 1804	48	(43)
Herb Hope
Clan Conference Photos	80	(11)
PART II: Contemporary Issues & Projects	91	(36)
The Sounds of English and Tlingit	93	(5)
Richard Dauenhauer
Building a Tlingit Resource Atlas	98	(19)
Thomas F. Thornton
Subsistence and Contemporary Tlingit Culture	117	(7)
Steve J. Langdon
Naming in the Year 2000	124	(3)
Ellen Hope Hays
PART III: Appendix	127	(2)
Letter from Frederica de Laguna	129	(2)
Taanta Kwaan, George Emmons manuscript	131	(7)
T'aaku Kwaan, George Emmons manuscript	138	(4)
L'uknax.adi, George Emmons manuscript	142	(2)
Xat `ka.aayi, George Emmons manuscript	144	(1)
Sik' nax.adi, George Emmons manuscript	145	(3)
List of Tlingit Tribes, Clans & Clan Houses	148