Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native EldersOf Athapaskan and Tlingit ancestry, Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith, and Annie Ned lived in the southern Yukon Territory for nearly a century. They collaborated with Julie Cruikshank, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, to produce this unique kind of autobiography. |
Contents
Life History and Life Stories | 1 |
Angela Sidney Introduction | 21 |
Our Shagóon Our Family History | 37 |
How the World Began | 42 |
My Parents | 50 |
Stories from My Parents Time | 53 |
Childhood | 66 |
Stories from Childhood | 73 |
Thinking with Shagoon | 153 |
Kitty Smith Introduction | 159 |
Our Family History | 175 |
Origins and Transformations | 179 |
My Husbands People | 186 |
The Dangers of Distance | 190 |
Childhood | 201 |
Stories from Childhood | 205 |
Childhood Travels 19121915 | 79 |
Stories and Place Names | 86 |
Potlatches | 91 |
A Potlatch Song | 94 |
Becoming a Woman | 98 |
The Stolen Woman 1 | 102 |
Getting Married | 111 |
The Stolen Woman 2 | 117 |
Marriage and Children | 128 |
Kaaxachgóok | 139 |
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Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders Julie Cruikshank Limited preview - 1992 |
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