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Haa shuká, our ancestors

by Nora Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, Nora Marks Dauenhauer

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Recorded from the 1960s to the present by twelve tradition bearers who were passing down for future generations the accounts of haa shuka, which means our ancestors. Narratives tell of the origin of social and spiritual concepts and explain complex relationships. Text in Tlingit with English translation on the opposite page. Includes biographies of the narrators. Also extensive introduction and notes.

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