Search Results for Tlingit

... Pacific Northwest, Western ornithology’s discomfort with the raven’s maritime presence and stringent relegation of the bird to barren land becomes vividly apparent. In Haida, Tlingit, and other Northwest Pacific Indigenous traditions, the raven operates through an intertidal ecology to serve a prominent...

... benevolence to white miners, Pegues situates this figure in relation to the lynching of Tlingit men. Reading historical newspapers against the grain, Pegues identifies Natives as “the most numerous and longest lasting of all [China Joe’s] customers.” The white settlers, she proposes, were the “exceptions...

... knowledge traditions in her case, Haida, Tlingit, and other northwestern Native American stories about the trickster gure of the raven requires an analytic framework that explodes Western disciplinary and metaphysical categories operative in the conventional history of science. On the one hand, as she...

.... Faris, The Nightway: A History and a History of Documentation of a Navajo Ceremonial (Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1990), 15. 29 In their discussion of why the Tlingit oral tradition has borrowed little...

... Literatures of North America. Ed. Brian Swann. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2004. xxii, 617 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $27.50. Swann gathers translations from the oral traditions of thirty-six Native Ameri- can groups, including the Navajo, Yana, Tlingit, Lakota, Meskwaki, Lushoot...

... of sailors in Herman Melville s Moby-Dick (1851). On the other hand, she recovers an alternative conception of the raven in the story cycles of Haida and Tlingit UNCORRECTED PROOFS Introduction 195 communities. Here, the bird is a trickster who inhabits the region s intertidal zones in tales about creation...

... contexts. The first two chapters focus on oral and ritual performances including the Iroquois condolence ceremony, Tlingit potlatch, Ghost Dance songs, and speeches of dying Indians. The fol- lowing two chapters focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century written auto- biography, poetry, and fiction...

... context and to connect oral and written expressions. Each of the book’s four chapters embeds masterful literary analysis in rich historical contexts. The first two chapters focus on oral and ritual performances including the Iroquois condolence ceremony, Tlingit potlatch, Ghost Dance songs...

... context and to connect oral and written expressions. Each of the book’s four chapters embeds masterful literary analysis in rich historical contexts. The first two chapters focus on oral and ritual performances including the Iroquois condolence ceremony, Tlingit potlatch, Ghost Dance songs...

... contexts. The first two chapters focus on oral and ritual performances including the Iroquois condolence ceremony, Tlingit potlatch, Ghost Dance songs, and speeches of dying Indians. The fol- lowing two chapters focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century written auto- biography, poetry, and fiction...

... context and to connect oral and written expressions. Each of the book’s four chapters embeds masterful literary analysis in rich historical contexts. The first two chapters focus on oral and ritual performances including the Iroquois condolence ceremony, Tlingit potlatch, Ghost Dance songs...

... context and to connect oral and written expressions. Each of the book’s four chapters embeds masterful literary analysis in rich historical contexts. The first two chapters focus on oral and ritual performances including the Iroquois condolence ceremony, Tlingit potlatch, Ghost Dance songs...

... contexts. The first two chapters focus on oral and ritual performances including the Iroquois condolence ceremony, Tlingit potlatch, Ghost Dance songs, and speeches of dying Indians. The fol- lowing two chapters focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century written auto- biography, poetry, and fiction...

... context and to connect oral and written expressions. Each of the book’s four chapters embeds masterful literary analysis in rich historical contexts. The first two chapters focus on oral and ritual performances including the Iroquois condolence ceremony, Tlingit potlatch, Ghost Dance songs...

... context and to connect oral and written expressions. Each of the book’s four chapters embeds masterful literary analysis in rich historical contexts. The first two chapters focus on oral and ritual performances including the Iroquois condolence ceremony, Tlingit potlatch, Ghost Dance songs...

... contexts. The first two chapters focus on oral and ritual performances including the Iroquois condolence ceremony, Tlingit potlatch, Ghost Dance songs, and speeches of dying Indians. The fol- lowing two chapters focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century written auto- biography, poetry, and fiction...