Tommy McGinty's Northern Tuchtone Story of Crow : A First Nation Elder Recounts the Creation of the World

by Legros, Dominique

• ISBN13: 9780660175065
• ISBN10: 0660175061
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Utp Distribution

Table of Contents

Linguistic note	13	(2)
Foreword	15	(18)
Introduction	33	(10)
The Story of Crow:
The world is flooded but crow saves his life	43	(4)
Crow builds the world anew	47	(4)
An osprey does not want to share water	51	(8)
A second flood comes	59	(2)
Crow throws his old blanket away	61	(4)
Crow wishes something he doesn't want	65	(4)
Crow marries a good woman	69	(6)
Inside a suckerfish	75	(8)
Crow meets the otter people	83	(5)
Crow steals the sun from the lake trout	88	(15)
The first matches	103	(4)
Crow paints the birds	107	(6)
Eyeball, watchman and playing ball	113	(6)
Ho-hei, ho-hei, ho-hei, ho-hei	119	(6)
A jealous gopher	125	(8)
Who's the oldest one in the world?	133	(2)
A cannibal horsefly-man	135	(6)
Crow makes the first women	141	(12)
Moose, caribou, sheep and goat	153	(8)
Crow's mother-in-law	161	(12)
Indians get to be too many for crow	173	(6)
From the oral to the written and back to the oral	179	(82)
The Northern Tutchone contemporary world	180	(3)
The Northern Tutchone before Canada colonized them	183	(6)
The end of Tutchone independence and the aftermath of dependence	189	(3)
The meeting between Mr. McGinty and the anthropologist	192	(18)
Transfixing the oral into the written	210	(19)
Transubstantiating the written back into the oral	229	(22)
Mr. McGinty: in between agency and contingency	251	(10)
References	261