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This work represents the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 39. The following myths and texts were collected at Sitka and Wrangell, Alaska in January through April 1904 from the Tlingit Indians in residence there. Some of the stories were related by the writer's Sitka interpreter, Don Cameron, of the Chilkat Ka'gwantan, and others by a Yakutat man.Tags
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wjburton Much excellent background on John Reed Swanton, excellent translations from the Haida by Robert Bringhurst
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This kind of original text of myth, along with translation is of greatest importance for our American heritage!!! Please, if anybody has other material of genuine myth texts, I need them!!!! Ones from languages all over the Americas. With these myths we can help preserve the Native American languages in a real way.
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John R. Swanton (1873-1958) was a seminal figure in the study of southeastern Native peoples, with more than thirty books to his credit James T. Carson is an assistant professor of history at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Tlingit myths and texts
- Original publication date
- 1909
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- Nonfiction, Anthropology, History
- DDC/MDS
- 398.2089972 — Society, government, & culture Customs, etiquette & folklore Folklore & Folktales Folk literature Groups of people Folklore by ethnic group Native Americans
- LCC
- E51 .U6 — History of the United States America Pre-Columbian America. The Indians
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